pineapple strawberry smoothie {smoothie saturday}

Fresh Pineapple and strawberries and combined with banana and super hydrating coconut water to create this sweet and refreshing Pineapple Strawberry Smoothie. 

I’ve been a bit MIA the last week and a half. I’m telling myself it was because after returning from NYC as well as from a trip to visit my in-laws that I was just too wiped out to get my act together and create some great food. In reality I think I’m in my summer slump. It happens this time just about every single year. While most people are basking in the summer sun, just lettin’ off steam (I couldn’t resist the line) I am feeling drained of all creativity and ambition and just counting the days until I snap out of it and get back on my feet.

I never used to think that I was a creature of habit, but I so am. This summer lackadaisical schedule is for the birds, but for the life of me, I can’t seem to shake it. 

The one thing that I can undeniably embrace during the summer months is the abundance of fresh fruit. It’s hard to be really cranky when faced with a countertop full of pineapples, mangos and peaches.

When we went strawberry picking a few weeks ago, we picked way more strawberries than we could eat right away, so I popped some in the freezer for later to use in smoothies and even cocktails. Remember my Frozen Mango Strawberry Cocktail from a few weeks ago? Also the result of the over picking of strawberries.

This week, wanting to break out some more of these sweet little strawberries, I whipped up a fresh and very simple Pineapple Strawberry Smoothie. It was all fruit (no greens this time) but it was sweet and satisfying. Good enough for breakfast and treat-ish enough to stand in for a summer night dessert, this smoothie was just the thing I needed to start to break me out of my mid-summer funk.

Just taking some photos of these pretty fruits helped me feel a little bit better, so there’s that. I’ve got some big plans for next week and hopefully it will all fall into place. For now – there are pineapple strawberry smoothies for everyone! I made one for you, too 🙂

Happy Saturday!