SMASH!
WE DID IT!
Zeppenwolf's Tom Kha Smoothie, Adult Version
prep time: two minutes fussing, some ingredients two hours in the freezer before blending
1 1/2 pints of truly unremarkable Tom Kha soup from a lousy Thai restaurant. Not even soup, just broth.
1/3 ripe pineapple, chunked
3 over-ripe bananas, chunked
2 paws of honey, wide latitude on choice, I think
1 pirate of Rum
2 cups ice cubes
Take the banana and pineapple chunks and throw them in the freezer for long enough that they turn into ice cubes of their own.
Toss everything in the Smoothie-Maker / Blender and hit the button that says "On". ( I used a Cuisinart cuz that's all my mom had, and it works ok but not as good as my own Ninja at home )
Creates one standard sized Cuisinart filled to the brim, about seven Tom Collins glasses.
There were eight of us at dinner last night, six family members including yours Uncley, and two guests. One fm, my niece, is only eight yo and got dehydrated on the flight from Tokyo-- past couple days she had eaten nothing but water and a couple seaweed / rice balls. Not kidding. So that leaves six adults and my nephew, 15 yo.
At the end of the night, one guest left maybe a third of a glass. My nephew, the 15 yo, is half Japanese, looks like a stick, and eats like a hummingbird-- he left half a glass. But the fact that he even touched it means he must really have liked it. All other glasses were empty, after repeated claims that it was delicious.
And maybe it was delicious. It certainly wasn't the *most* delicious smoothie I've ever had, not even. But in this situation, anything "potable" was a complete win, and we went far beyond that. It was I who asked my brother to bring back some Tom Kha from the restaurant, so the onus was on me to pour that sorry stuff down the drain or find some other use for it... Thanks, MG, for pulling my coconuts out of the fire.