The Pink Swirl
Here’s a hardy and refreshing recipe for Banana and Strawberry Smoothie, the “Pink Swirl“.
Recipe
Yield: 2
Ingredients:
2 ripe bananas
12 fresh strawberries
1/4 cup of apple juice
How to make it:
1. Chop up the bananas and 10 strawberries as if you’re chopping away the brutal heat on a blazing hot summer day
2. Freeze them overnight
3. Put the other 2 strawberries in a blender until it’s completely puréed (if you’re using a juicer, skip #4)
4. Place the puréed strawberries on a strainer and strain out the juice only, pressing down the purée with a spoon
5. Spoon the strawberry syrup and pour it in 2 empty glasses (about a tbsp each)
6. Take out the frozen fruits and blend them together in a blender (it’ll end up having a sorbet-like texture)
7. Drop 2 scoops or more of the mixture as if you’re scooping cold vanilla ice-cream into the prepared glasses with the strawberry syrup in it
8. As you drop the scoops into the glasses, you’ll notice that the strawberry syrup splashes in the glass and creates beautiful pink swirls
9. Put a straw into the glasses (or teaspoons) and enjoy!
May 19th, 2008 at 9:09 am
STEPH, I’M JUST PLAYING AROUND WITH THIS ‘CREATIVE RECIPE’ IDEA. There are movies that play with cooking = magic metaphors (Like Water for Chocalate is one that comes to mind), so I figured I’d see how it feels changing the boring recipe into a “magic spell.”
One of the problems I had was making anything poetic out of a numbered, step-by-step list. I think it would be easier to be creative if the format was changed. I’m thinking Harry Potter for some reason.
Even simple diction changes - changing “Step One” to “Step the First”, for example - may make a difference.
Anyway, I didn’t find it particularly easy. But my play with the idea is in ALL CAPS after each of your steps. All I’m trying to do is show different ways to seek originality with ideas that begin as common ones. You can find a million other ideas yourself, if you let yourself play at it. Think artists at their sketch-pads. They don’t expect perfection. They’re just trying stuff out. Sometimes they find something that works, and bam, they go further with it.
Recipe
POTION:
Yield: 2
DOSES: 2
Ingredients:
2 ripe bananas
2 GOLD-SKINNED, WHITE-MUSCLED TUBES FROM A TROPICAL PARADISE
12 fresh strawberries
12 FRECKLED BERRIES IN THE JUICY BLOOM OF YOUTH
1/4 cup of apple juice
1/4 CUP OF EVE’S TEMPTING NECTAR
How to make it:
CASTING THE SPELL:
1. Chop up the bananas and 10 strawberries as if you’re chopping away the brutal heat on a blazing hot summer day
1. DRAW A PICTURE OF THE BLAZING SUN. PLACE IT ON THE CUTTING BOARD. THEN, WITH A FROZEN KNIFE, CHOP THE TROPIC GOLD-TUBE AND FRECKLED BERRIES
2. Freeze them overnight
FREEZE THE POTION TO A DEATHLY COOL FROM THE SUN’S LAST RAYS TO ITS NEXT-MORN FIRST.
3. Put the other 2 strawberries in a blender until it’s completely puréed (if you’re using a juicer, skip #4)
4. Place the puréed strawberries on a strainer and strain out the juice only, pressing down the purée with a spoon
5. Spoon the strawberry syrup and pour it in 2 empty glasses (about a tbsp each)
6. Take out the frozen fruits and blend them together in a blender (it’ll end up having a sorbet-like texture)
7. Drop 2 scoops or more of the mixture as if you’re scooping cold vanilla ice-cream into the prepared glasses with the strawberry syrup in it
8. As you drop the scoops into the glasses, you’ll notice that the strawberry syrup splashes in the glass and creates beautiful pink swirls
9. Put a straw into the glasses (or teaspoons) and enjoy!