For Christmas, my brother and sister-in-law gave us a homemade cookbook entitled Rock N Eat.  We talk like this.  It’s part of our culture.

The first entry is for a kale banana peanut butter smoothie and it starts, “This is much better than it sounds.”

It is.

I mean, it’s shockingly tasty.  I like kale a lot, though I don’t think I’d be too psyched for a kale-flavored breakfast, and thankfully the kale taste is nowhere to be found in this smoothie.  It’s all banana and peanut butter goodness, reducing the kale’s presence to tiny flecks while bestowing all the nutrition of raw kale, which is, as Andrew writes, “pretty much the best thing you can put into your body.”

All you do is combine in a blender:

• a banana
• a couple of large leaves of kale (Drew says remove the stems, but I keep forgetting in my morning stupors and haven’t minded)
• two spoonfuls of peanut butter
• enough milk to fill whatever glass you’re using

I also have been adding a few squeezes of honey.

The drink is the bomb.  I’m talking so, so-o-o good.  It fills you up until the early afternoon and is a heavy shot of protein, calcium, and fiber.

And kale, of course, is s superior source of beta carotene, vitamins K and C, and anti-oxidizing carotenoids.  It also contains indole-3-carbinol, which blocks the growth of cancer cells and boosts DNA repair, and decreases the absorption of dietary fat.

In addition, the drink manages to be green and frothy while tasting purely peanut-butter-banana, making it kinda weird, and who doesn’t dig weird?