{"id":651,"date":"2016-04-21T10:58:12","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T16:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/?p=651"},"modified":"2016-04-20T20:13:31","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T02:13:31","slug":"its-a-tropical-day-in-the-neighborhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/its-a-tropical-day-in-the-neighborhood\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Tropical Day in the Neighborhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rural midwest never feels like the tropics. But how would I know? I&#8217;ve ever been to the tropics. I have been to California and Florida&#8211;once each, mostly inside at conferences. But I have seen real live palm trees! \u00a0But a girl can dream. And a girl can enjoy the tastes of the tropics without going there, in these times. Blessings indeed. And it is even a blessing to be able to get them frozen when fresh is not available.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"pina colada green smoothie\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-content\/uploads\/pina-colada-green-smoothie-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s Green Smoothie is straight from the tropics, with a flavor many love, even if they&#8217;ve never tasted the real, fresh fruits. Pina Colada&#8211;Pineapple and Coconut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Pina Colada Green Smoothie<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 cup pineapple chunks<\/li>\n<li>1\/4 &#8211; 1\/2 cup <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1StLHyH\">fresh young coconut<\/a> meat (no they don&#8217;t cost near this much locally or through <a href=\"http:\/\/azurestandard.com\">Azure Standard<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>1\/2 banana<\/li>\n<li>2 large handfuls baby spinach or other greens<\/li>\n<li>water kefir (or fresh coconut water or purified water)<\/li>\n<li>1 Tbl. fresh ground <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1MIvTsA\">flax seed<\/a> (optional)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As always ingredients should all be organic, as much as you are able to find.<\/p>\n<p>Blend till smooth, in a\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/downloads\/blendtec\/\">high performance blender<\/a><\/strong>. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><strong>What was in your Green Smoothie today? 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And a girl can enjoy the tastes \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/its-a-tropical-day-in-the-neighborhood\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[74,73,87,91,93,85,80,75,106],"class_list":["post-651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-blender","tag-blendtec","tag-coconut","tag-green-smoothie","tag-greens","tag-raw","tag-recipe","tag-vitamix","tag-whole-plant-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":655,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651\/revisions\/655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frommeandmyhouse.com\/gfy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}