This week I feel like I’ve been swinging from vine-to-vino vine.
An airplane monkey, if you will.
I’ve also been a room service monkey.
Forgetting my razor made me a hairy monkey.
The security line in Charlotte made me WANT to be a poo-slinging monkey.
Even after all that travel, I have to go into the office today on a Friday and be an all-day meeting monkey.
It’s all good. This weekend I am planning an Italian wine tour with my wine-drinking monkey-friends.
First I need to satisfy a caveman-like craving. Due to travel, it’s been a smoothie-less week… and the last day of a loooong week necessitates the appearance of Coffee Monkey.
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Coffee Monkey Smoothie
- 1 banana
- 1/2 C coffee
- 1/2 C unsweetened almond milk
- 1 scoop vanilla protein powder
- 1 tsp maca
- 1 C spinach
- 10 drops vanilla NuNaturals Stevia
- 1/2 tsp cinnamon
- 1/4 tsp ginger
- 1/4 tsp nutmeg
- 1/8 tsp guar gum
- Ice + water, to taste
Toss everything in a blender/Magic Bullet/Vitamix and blend until smooth.
Try not to spill while monkey-swinging your way through getting dressed and running out the door.
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2 months until Italy!!!
Anyone have any winery suggestions for the Veneto, Friuli, Piedmont, or Tuscan regions?
Are you planning to go to the FoodBuzz Blogger Festival? I signed up this morning!!!
I’ve yet to try coffee in a morning smoothie – I think I enjoy them both so much that I don’t want to combine them! I’ll be in Italy in October too!
Look at the bright side – it’s Friday and I’m sure you have tons of frequent flyer miles!
No Foodbuzz for me. I just couldn’t swing it this year. Have tons of fun though!
Cute post…I love monkeys…
TGIF…sounds like you had a very busy week! I would have loved to go to The FoodBuzz thingy but we will be in Spain…eeek….so excited. Happy Friday – xoxo from Trinidad
I like all your monkey pictures…it made me laugh
I love Italy and am jealous you are going!
Lol, really cute post. Sorry it’s been a crazy week, but at least you have your big vaca coming up soon!
Aww you poor monkey! This post is so awesome though
You are going to Italy?!?!? OMG!!!
1. Thank you for having a sock monkey on the airplane. [Unless that was stock photo, in which case…thank you for thinking that would be a good idea.]
2. I am also a hairy monkey, but it’s out of laziness…not forgetting a razor.
3. Monkeys eat bananas. And bananas are good. Especially covered in peanut butter. Perhaps you should just eat some Chunky Monkey ice cream and call it a day?
PS- Can I come to Italy?
This is my favorite smoothie of all time. The place where I usually get it makes it with chocolate, though. I’ll have to try it out with vanilla. Speaking of Monkeys/Apes/Chimps– have you seen Rise of the Planet of the Apes yet? I was very pleasantly surprised with how good it was! Oh wait, you’re not into movies…
I love having wine dates with friends. Clearly you’ll need it after this week;)
I am loving all of your monkey pictures, they make me smile
Yay for 2 months until Italy! It shall be here before you know it… p.s. I am jealous!
I think someone deserves a glass (or two) of wine for sure! The smoothie sounds great. I think nutmeg is a very underrated spice.
Haha love this post! Sorry your weeks been so hectic at least you get to have a fab weekend now!
Would love to hit foodbuzz but I’m betting it will be hella expensive to get there from here… I also remember an amazing restaurant in Siena but I can’t for the life of me remember the name… the wine made me forget! lol!
Traveling for work always makes me feel like monkey too! Love the coffee banana combo! What’s maca though?
I like your monkey post! So cute! I’m so jealous you’re going to Italy! I don’t know enough about wine to really recommend any particular brand, but I did live in Florence for a year so if you need/want restaurant recs, I’d be more than happy to oblige :]