recipe for the day

In the past couple of years I've discovered cooking for fun. I've been cooking my whole life, but I did it because I had to up till then, and ... let's just say, not the pleasantest associations. But then my life changed, and I didn't have to cook anymore and ... well, it's kinda weird, but I started cooking because I wanted to. In the beginning I did it because I wanted to "give back", as they say. But I like food; hell, I love food. And cooking became something else, not a chore, but a fun thing.

All of which is a long way of saying, today I'm going to share a recipe!

This is one of those breakfast in a shake type things, although you don't have to have it at breakfast. In fact, I like to have it late in the afternoon, or late at night, or ... well, any old time, actually.

The instructions are very simple: you put everything in a blender and blend the hell out of it. I've actually got, I don't know what it is, it's a chopping blade on a stick kinda thing, so you can blend the stuff right in the container you're going to drink out of (not a glass - I have this big plastic beaker that came with the blender thing).

Ok, here we go. What you put in: frozen blueberries, about a cup (I don't measure anything); pecan nuts (they're good nuts for this because they're so soft, they blend well); a hunk of cream cheese; some maple syrup; tinned fruit (I use peaches or pears); almond milk (how much depends on how thick you like it; sometimes I like to eat it with a spoon; sometimes I want it thin enough to drink. If there's no almond milk around, use ground almonds and straight milk).

There you go -- healthy, nutritious, easy, and damn good!