Avocado Honeydew Milkshake

Prequel: Yes, I know, like 30 of you have stumbled across this site looking for that milkshake he made on Iron Chef. I'm sorry. All because I mentioned the damn thing in a post about other avocado delights. I know you, like me, just wanted some guidance. You kinda know how to maybe do it, but you want to know if there's any special trick or proportion or secret magical Iron Chef ingredient. It looked so impossibly good at the judges table, right?

What's even worse is that I am planning on making one tonight, and when I tried to google recipes, my own damn site kept coming up. That's ironic and unpleasant.

I've been all about avocados recently, thanks to an Iron Chef, Smitten Kitchen, and the fact that Marty and Rebecca have a countertop that spontaneously creates bags of avocados. It's a special kind of granite. So I've wanted to make this damn milkshake for like a week. But I had no idea really how to.

So the first attempt was 1 avocado, 1 half a honeydew, and about a cup of vanilla soy milk. Add some ice. Blend.



It was not good.

It was actively bland, like, a combination of flavors determined to suck out any flavor you might have had on your tongue in the past or the future.

So we added some cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, and some more soy milk. Which made it palatable. The cinnamon and nutmeg were perfect, it made it like an eggnog. But neither the honeydew or the avocado sang at all, or even hummed. It was green watery mud. Rebecca covered it with whipped cream, which was awfully pretty, but everyone just ate the whipped cream and stopped. I mean, I liked it well enough. I drank two glasses. Marty drank his. Allison pecked at hers. Rebecca full on stopped.



So here's what we're going to do next.

-2 avocado
-2 cup honeydew
-1 cup vanilla ice cream
-1 banana
- cinnamon
-nutmeg

I mean, that will serve like 6 people. But I think the proportions will be better. The soy milk really didn't contribute anything and I hate adding ice because then it just becomes water. Ice cream is definitely key.

I'll let you know. I mean, my motivation is a little low right now.