All right, I have read enough about the joys of blenderhood to want to jump right in. I have forgotten how nice a smoothie can be, not to mention convenient for getting all my daily servings of fruit in one sitting.
Hungry tonight, I stumbled across Thrifty Rays and lrjohnson's discourse on the benefits of the mighty blender. Inspired, I did a quick overhaul of the fridge to reveal two half-eaten cartons of yogurt (strawberry and peach - courtesy of ds2 who never finishes anything), a half pint of blueberries, some half-rotten bananas stuck in the fridge to slow the browning enough to buy time for baking, some strawberries, and a cantaloupe. Then I fished out the blender, blew off the dust, and started throwing things in. Oops - no top. Hold a plate over it and hope for the best. WHIR. Good - the plate worked. No blender mess on the ceiling. Cleaned out the blender with a little dish soap - WHIR - and clean up is over! YUM.
Inspired - and wanting a little more of a treat - I combed over the rest of the kitchen and came up with half a blueberry muffin (again, courtesy of ds2) and a touch of guacamole and chips. A bit ecletic, but the combination was enough to satisfy my sweet tooth (fruit) and salty side (chips) without any effort at all and it used up several leftovers that would have been thrown out. Three cheers for leftovers! Now I just have to remember to look for them before they turn on me...