Smooth(l)ie

It's been a week since we got back from our vacation, and everything's smoothly going back to everyday routine.
One easily gets used to summer rhythm, beach-relax-sun-restaurant food, but in the end, three weeks can be quite long, and I couldn't wait to get back home and have some home made food, bake again.
I'll pretend the mountain of laundry got washed by itself, and the dust disappered because some good old fairy waved her wand.
I'll pretend last week wasn't hotter than the previous three (weird summer, indeed), and the kids didn't get bored to death because there was nowhere to go and nothing to do.
No, things went on smoother than I thought they would. Just one little thing. My computer ate so much dust while we were away (I guess it was used to eating all the food photos I've been feeding it, and it went on dust-eating strike after I left ^__^), that it first started having blackouts, then for a moment we thought we had lost it after an attempt to clean it. After two days, it came back, phew!!! I just hope I didn't speak too soon.
Well, don't you think I deserved a nice tall glass of smoothie?




Peach and Blueberry Smothie

2 peaches
100 g (about 1 Cup) fresh blueberries
120 ml (1/2 C) milk (or e.g. soy/rice/barley/coconut etc. milk)
180 ml (1 and 1/2 C) yogurt (preferably low fat)
2 TBspoons powdered sugar
a few drops of vanilla extract
3-4 ice cubes

Put peaches (peeled, stoned and chopped), blueberries, milk, yogurt, powdered sugar, a few drops of vanilla extract and the ice cubes into a blender, mix well and drink quickly :))))

Try also apricot-raspberry combo.



Smoothie alle pesche e mirtilli

2 pesche
100 g di mirtilli freschi
120 ml di latte parzialmente scremato (o latte di soia/riso/avena/cocco ecc.)
180 ml di yogurt
2 cucchiai di zucchero a velo
qualche goccia di estratto di vaniglia puro
3-4 cubetti di ghiaccio

Mettete tutti gli ingredienti nel frullatore (pelate e tagliate le pesche a pezzi), e frullate per qualche istante.
Bevetelo subito.



Smoothie s breskvama i borovnicama

2 breskve
100 g svježih borovnica
120 ml (polu)obranog mlijeka (ili sojinog, zobenog, rižinog, kokosovog, itd.)
180 ml jogurta
2 žlice šećera u prahu
nekoliko kapi čistog ekstrakta vanilije
3-4 kockice leda

Stavite sve sastojke (breskve ogulite i narežite na kockice) u uspravni mikser i izmiksajte da dobijete manje ili više glatku tekućinu (kako volite). Popijte odmah.



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And here's a few more photos from our Sicilian vacation.
We reached Sicily by boat, starting from Naples.



We spent the first week in Mondello, a small town near Palermo.
And, of course a visit to Palermo was one of the obligatory steps. A rather quick one, I must say, because it's a rather big city, and a couple hours, with two kids, are definitely not enough to visit and see it, to explore it's rich cultural and historical heritage. Which definitely makes it necessary go back and visit again.





Mondello, the beach.



A very special moment was reserved for meeting a dear blogger friend from Palermo, Stefania and her gorgeous family. Unfortunately she was going away the following day, but I count on her being my tourist guide next time I visit.