Farm Fresh Hangover Detox Smoothie -- for someone you love

One perk of being a graduate student here is the numerous social hours -- monthly happy hour and First Friday at Five, biweekly TGIF, spontaneous outings, etc. It also helps to have brilliant and generous friend who offers to pay for beer as his new Science article is getting super hot. It's no surprise then we got to kick start our weekend with some free pizza and beer, from where D and others moved on to a restaurant downtown for dinner, and continued with flowing delicious beverage, until...until it's time to crash. (I got home early, not 100% by choice -- I was still recovering from the night before, from pitchers of Negra Modelo at the allegedly best Mexican restaurant in CT.)  D's hangover today was only natural -- I just need to find a CURE to it.

This brings me to another perk of living here -- an awesome food co-op and a great farmer's market a few blocks away. Fresh from the market today -- garlic greens, rapini, and a cherry tomato plant.

I have been reading about (and stocking up ingredients for) the anti inflammation diet since last week, after being involved in a conversation about vegan diet with several post-docs and grad students. With the organic ginger, banana and celery from the co-op, plus the rapini and the garlic green from the farmer's market, a perfect cup of goodness is ready!

Farm Fresh Hangover Detox Smoothie

serves 1

• 1 medium banana
• 1 cup chopped rapini
• 1/2 stalk celery
• 1 Tbsp minced ginger
• 1 Tbsp honey
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/4 cup ice

1. Throw everything in a blender, and blend until smooth.

Nutrition

Coming in with 185 calories, this smoothie is low in fat, cholesterol and sodium, yet full of Vitamin A,C, B6,K and Maganesese. For a more detailed nutrional analysis, please see here.

Cost

Going from the top of the list, each ingredient cost $0.6+$0.5+$0.4+$0.5+0.1+ $0+$0(made our own ice) = $2.1/serving. Certainly cheaper than many of the organic smoothies out there and trust me it works! D was up and running within an hour, even asking for honey mustard chicken wings!

Oh mine it tasted so good. I realized that you can only make this if you are sober enough to make it to the farmer's market, but I also enjoyed a big serving even though I was not experiencing any hangover whatsoever...