Our New Favorite Orange Smoothie - BONUS BREAD

We've got a new favorite smoothie! 

We were going for an orange dreamsicle kind of thing, and what we ended up with was simply delicious...and has the added bonus of producing a batch of beautiful pulp for a tea bread that's to die for! 

Our ingredient list today includes: 
Two oranges
Two mineolas
Two carrots
One sweet potato
One avocado
Almond Milk
Vanilla 

Start by peeling the sweet potato and cutting it up. Then cut up the carrots, and peel the citrus. So far, so good! 

Run it all through the juicer and set aside. 

When you clean the juicer, take the pulp from the catch bin and save it for a surprise treat for later! 

Then, get out your blender, and prepare your banana and avocado.  

Avocados, for all their smoothie-goodness can be rather messy, so here'a a pictorial of the best way I've found to prepare them: 

Make sure it's nice and ripe - that is soft - but not too soft. Slice all the way around it to the stone the long way.   
   

 Once you have it split in two, give it a twist, and split it in half.

Once it's split in half, take a spoon and carefully scrape out all the avocado pulp into the blender. 

Cut up the banana into the blender, and then add the amount of almond milk that you would prefer. You will see that we did not use too much, as a straw stood upright in the finished product!

Set it to blending, and add a little vanilla to taste, (unfortunately all I had was imitation vanilla on hand...my bad...but it works.)

When it's well blended, start slowly pouring in the awesome juice!

Pour into glasses, and thoroughly enjoy it, and try not to fight over who gets to clean out the blender.  And like I said...check out this smoothie's thickness! That straw ain't going anywhere! 

Now, remember the bonus? I'm including a recipe for the BEST tea bread you've ever tasted. 

Get that pulp out, and measure out two cups...which is about what you will have with the ingredients listed here. Pick out any large chunks that may have made their way into it if you'd like. It doesn't really matter - they will soften with baking.   
 
This is just too easy. In a bowl combine the following ingredients: 
 2 cups of your pulp
3 eggs
1 cup of oil
2 cups of sugar (I use a bit less). 
3 cups flour
1/4 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 tsp of cinnamon
3 tsp vanilla

Give it to your Kitchen Aid, if you have one - (and if you don't...by all means, GET ONE!) - and blend it all together. 

Grease two bread pans well and fill them each with half the mixture. 

Put it in the oven at 375 degrees for 45 minutes. If you are as lucky as me, you can cook it in your wood stove :-). 

Take it out of the oven, and prepare to watch it disappear! I only had one loaf left to picture for you here!  

I'm going to go steal a piece before the rest of the kids get home! 

Happy Juice and Bread Day!