Anytime virgin grapefruit margarita smoothie...

This is complete heaven.  We just spent the whole morning gardening, pruning trees, you know...hard labor.  Not really, actually.  I could have this job any day, since I love the bees, trees, flowers, and just beautiful dirt underneath my fingernails.  But I'd like to think we worked hard...sweat, tears, and hours of pruning later, we are deserving of a cool afternoon margarita...except that it's not even 11:00 a.m. yet and there should be some laws out there (despite the fact that it's 5:00 p.m. somewhere) that alcohol is not the best on an empty stomach for breakfast.  If there isn't one, I just made it so.  So virgin we go...


This is also "grab everything you got from the farmers market on Sunday and put it in" like your spinach (which is soon to be out of season as it's definitely hot and humid out) and the big ol' bag of spearmint. Drink up, and enjoy, and if need be (to congratulate your pruning), grab a drink umbrella for your glass.

2 grapefruits, peeled and cut into manageable blend-able pieces

2 bananas, peeled

2 cups of spearmint, stems and all

1 to 2 cups baby spinach

a good chunk (up to you) of peeled aloe - we used about a 3 inch square

2 cups water

1-2 cups ice

Blend away (preferably in a Vitamix, or just chop everything small if you don't have a powerful blender) and enjoy.  Magical pruning reward system.  That should be its new name. And to boot, it actually helps the stomach (aloe and mint), so if you're having trouble in that area, you can tell them I told you this margarita smoothie is actually supposed to do you good....