(Not) Energy Drink by Coreopsis Major Bloden Melen
January 28th, 2008 8:03 PM(with apologies to any Jamaicans and/or Lumberjacks in the audience)
I was sitting around, trying to think of drinks I could make to use up the rum left over from my New Years party. I realized I also had chocolate soy milk to use up.
Then I realized I had a banana.
I love chocolate soy milk and bananas. Really, I just love chocolate-banana drinks of various sorts, whether hot or chilled or blended, as long as it involves real bananas and not fake banana flavor. But it seemed too simple to just toss the rum in there. Too boring, too bland, too normal.
That's when I realized I had cream-top maple yogurt to use up. Heck, I had maple syrup! But I didn't want to use that up, for it is spendy. But what was the link, the theme, the raison de frappé?
And the Jamaican Lumberjack Drink was born.
No, the maple yogurt is not actually from Canada, and the rum is in fact from Bermuda, which is perhaps technically Caribbean but sort of different (and sort of colder, trust me, I've been there in March). But we're working toward the amusing flag mash-up here, so let's just roll with it, shall we?
The Jamaican Lumberjack:
Combine in the blender:
1 oz black rum
1 ripe banana
1 c chocolate soy milk
1 c cream-top maple yogurt
Ice : to make a good smoothie, dump in enough ice to increase the volume in the blender by at least 60% of what it was pre-ice.
Blend!
I didn't put in enough ice to make a true smoothie, and only later remembered I had another bag of ice in the freezer, hidden under the vegetables. Oh well!
The result? Yum. The maple is a little fakey, and the overall effect is fairly tart (very good, but not as sweet as I was sort of hoping for), so maybe I will try this again with real maple syrup. But not tonight, because I have the rest of the pitcher to finish!
12 vote(s)
susy derkins
5
anna one
5
NHØ Bananapants
5
GYØ Ben
5
Tøm
5
Flitworth
5
zeraphere zeraphere
5
Alana Abbott
5
a dodecahedron
5
Vee
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Vena Nightmare
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Yeah, given that the only thing I've ever encountered that smells like banana flavoring other than banana flavoring is the auto body shop down the street from where I grew up, I don't find that very surprising.
Yeah! I think we made the compound in organic chemistry lab in college, or something. In fact it might have been the same week we made moth repellent compound.
I just don't like banana flavored anything. I love things like Bananas Foster, banana splits, and bananas in smoothies, but the flavoring drives me crazy. I'm the same about quite a few artificial flavors.
Honestly, you're getting a vote just for the "apologies" line at the top. :) Drink sounds yummy though!
Some nights I have comedic timing, some nights I don't. The other night was one of the good nights I guess. Glad you liked! The drink is pretty good but I think i would use real maple in the future.
The Jamaicanadian flag cracks me up.
Have you ever noticed that Bannanas don't taste anything at all like bannana flavouring? same with watermelon and several others.
Incidentally, I know the man who has the patent on banana-flavoring. He has confirmed what we already know- it is poison.