Meet the Queen’s New “Smooth-ie Operator”

Making a green smoothie when you don’t know which end of your blender is up is enough to make anyone anxious, but making your first ever green smoothie for the “Green Smoothie Queen” herself is downright intimidating. Since today is International Green Smoothie Day, which also happens to coincide with the Queen Mother’s birthday, I figured I’d swallow my pride and wash it down with whatever comes of my green liquid experiment.

While the Queen was on the phone with her mom, I slipped into my home office to watch the step-by-step video instructions of her 9-year-old daughter on how to make a green smoothie. I then discreetly peeled my juicy, fruity ingredients and piled them into the ol’ Osterizer:

Mr. Right’s Green Smoothie for a Queen

• 1 sweet mango
• 1 organic banana
• 1 tender peach
• 1 not-so-ripe fig
• a spoonful of wild blueberries from Lac St-Jean
• half a cup of water and
• a sprinkling of President’s Choice pomegranate fruit juice.

I waited until the smoothie sovereign left the room to blend. Much to my surprise, a beautiful reddish smoothie appeared. Once I was confident enough that the mixture had reached the desired smoothiness, I filled the blender to the rim with Swiss chard (harvested from our community garden last night) and pressed “Blend” again. My smoothie didn’t take on the greenish hue I was expecting, so I filled the blender with chard again and again, until it produced the green I was looking for. I poured the smoothie into wine glasses for the occasion and proudly presented my sweetness with my very first green smoothie.

She was charmed by the gesture and, like me, rather enjoyed the brew. Now that the proverbial ice has been broken, I’ll be perfecting my recipe in hopes of eventually one-upping her Highness of health. Until then, I encourage anyone who’s ever wanted to conquer the unknown, but never dared try for fear of failure, to whip out the ol’ blender and press “liquefy”!

Long live the Queen! And many happy returns to International Green Smoothie Day!

“Mr. Right”