Fruit Smoothie Universe

This morning I got up and started to put together my monday morning eye opener which consists of a fruit smoothie with many healthy ingredients, including a large tangelo, but to my dismay I opened the fruit drawer of my fridge and low and behold! no tangelos. In fact I had no fruit whatsoever to choose from in the fruit drawer except a couple of lemons! My first thought was how could this be? I know I had one left for monday and I knew my wife was going to resupply the fruit drawer on monday. Here it is Monday morning and life was already dealing me lemons. I was reminded of that quote  but I’m not sure who the author was but it went like this: “When life deals you lemons, make lemonade”. I don’t know about you but I am not a fan of lemons, in the two plus years that I have been making, drinking, experimenting with fruit smoothies I have never even thought of the lowly lemon as a part of my diet. In desperation and the fact that I am addicted to my citrus in the morning without even thinking about it I picked up one of the lemons and peeled the tough skin back and put half of the lemon in the blender along with my other stuff.  I kinda winced when I went to sip from the glass thinking it would be very sour but truly I got the shock of my life! What a wonderful flavor and the aroma coming from the drink was soothing, It almost felt like I was in an orchard and the sun was coming up…ahhh. Afterwards, I began to do some research on the lemon and found it to be a very versatile fruit with many healthful qualities. I am really rambling here but if you have never tried a lemon in your fruit smoothie regimen I would urge you to give it a try. If you add other fruit to your drinks as I do you will find that the combination will knock out the sourness of the lemon and leave the zest the lemon is known for. I will have more on the health benefits of the lemon in a later post, until then drink to your health!