"Making Nina's Favorite Smoothie (With a Twist!) | Life with Evan"

Nina wants me to make her a smoothie. Alright, Believe Nation, happy weekend! Nina wants me to make her a smoothie, and so, uh, I'm gonna give my best shot. She's gonna hopefully guide me, and I'm looking forward to hearing what you guys have to think and your favorite smoothie recipes. Let's do it! Nina? What am I doing?

Just wash the kale.

Wash the kale, I can do that.

But first wash the sink first, otherwise the sink is gross.

Listen, I'm gonna do it my way.

No, kale wash the sink.

It's my smoothie for you to drink.

For me to drink, of course it has to be clean. If it's not clean, I'm gonna get stomachache and I'll have to bother you all day.

Ooh, doesn't sound good. I'm gonna plug in the camera because the battery's gonna die. Okay, step 1, I need kale. Let's go. Kale. Where's the kale? Where's the kale?

In the fridge.

I'm in the fridge. Do we need carrots?

No.

No carrots?

Just kale and cucumber.

Pizza? How about some pizza? Yummy smoothie? Kale, kale. Ah, I found the kale! I found some kale. Okay, how much kale, Nina? What? All of it? All of the kale? There's a red pepper in with the kale.

It's good. Kale and cucumbers.

Cucumbers. How much?

One.

Okay, and yogurt and the fruit.

That's it.

Banana. Banana. The brown banana. Yes, these are good. Yes! These look nasty! Look at this! Look at this! Holy cow! How many? One banana?

Yes.

I'm kind of afraid to touch these bananas, to be honest. Have you ever seen a banana this black before?

Okay, it's okay, just do it.

This is— Holy cow! Is this what you put in my smoothies? Anything else? Other fruits?

Frozen fruits.

Frozen fruits. Do these qualify as fruits? What is this? Dates?

In the frozen fruits in the freezer.

Frozen fruits are in the freezer. That's some quality guidelines right there.

Maybe it's like in front of you.

This thing?

Yeah.

This thing. How much of this?

One handful, that's it.

One handful. I'm going to put my hand in this frozen fruit. It's like one giant block cube of frozen fruit. I don't know how to separate that. We'll see. Okay, guys. To make this epic smoothie, you need— ready? This is exact proportions. You need this much kale, one rotten banana, you need a whole cucumber, and a handful of frozen fruits. Okay, what do we need to wash? The cucumber do we need to wash, Dina?

Yes.

Cucumber, you guys, you need to wash. Banana, we don't need to wash, we just need to get a tetanus shot before. And the kale we need to wash. So let's do some washing. Washing. Cut off the edge of the cucumber. Alright, we are ready to blend. What?

You have to wash the kale.

I washed the kale. No. I did.

No.

I did.

How much kale did you put in?

The whole thing.

No, baby.

What do you mean? It's right there. I washed it.

I'll wash it again.

I washed the whole thing. Look at it.

No, that's not how you wash.

I washed the kale. Nina's not happy with how I washed the kale. She's gonna wash it. What is that? That's garbage?

Yes.

How come?

It's yellow and it has stems.

Guys, pro tip: if it's yellow and it has stems on kale, you don't blend that stuff. Okay? Get your act together. Alright, now we're ready to blend. We use a Vitamix. Get out your Vitamix, guys. Are we just gonna put everything in it and just blend? Huh?

Yes.

No water or anything?

Just water.

Water? Like how much water?

Up to half.

Up to half water? Really? Okay, we're gonna put some water in here. We're not quite sure how much. Maybe up to half. But first we put all of our ingredients in the Vitamix. Professional level here. Okay? Got my kale. Start with the kale. Squash that in there. This is epic. Wow, this is a lot of kale. We have our cucumber. The professional way to do this is to break it in half like that and squash it into the Vitamix as much as you can.

Yaha!

Okay, next we have our rotten banana. I feel like I need special gloves to hold this thing. Let's peel it. It's getting all mushy just peeling it. This is nasty. You know what? I'm going to cut it. I'm going to cut off the top. Oh guys. Oh my god. This is so gross. OK guys, use your special gloves. I don't need gloves because I'm Evan Carmichael. But if you're handling a banana like this— This is just nasty. Guys, look at this. This is what we keep in the fridge. This is the nastiest thing.

Nasty!

OK. This is just— I don't want to touch this. I am Evan Carmichael, but even touching this, I feel like it's going to— look, it can't even stay up by itself. It's so soggy, this thing. This is just wrong. Okay, guys, banana. Don't touch the actual banana. Find a way to get it in there without touching anything because you might get an infection. Okay, there, it sticks up, but that's okay.

How about the tip?

The tip? What do you want, the tip off?

Cut it off.

Okay guys, when you see the tip like that, you may think, wow, that's a nasty looking tip. So let's keep this entire nasty banana. But that, that's gross! Oh my god, let's cut that off.

Okay.

Oh, it's so much better now. This is nasty. Okay guys, if it's hanging out like this, cut it in half. Don't touch it, you might die. Oh man, okay, this is— this is—

You spat all over yourself.

I spat on myself. It's better than touching that. I'll die touching that thing. Okay, so far we have this. Next, we take this giant block of frozen fruit and take a handful of it somehow. Because it's all smushed together in one giant block and I need to take a handful of this. Somehow. So let's see what happens. This is what you learn on this quality YouTube channel. First challenge is undoing the knot. Okay, when there's a big giant knot in a plastic bag, my tendency would be to just rip a hole in the bag and have to deal with a very angry Chinese woman yelling at me. So I need to find a way to undo this knot. Holy cow, it's frozen! You know, they make special knots in China that are extra tough that you apply to frozen fruit bags to prevent the animals from getting in. Okay, there we go. Now the wife's instructions was take a handful, so let's try that. Oh, this is working really well. My hands are frozen. How am I supposed to take a handful of this?

Oh my god. No, no, no, don't eat.

Holy cow, that's frozen solid! Let me help you. No, no, you have to explain to me, okay?

I need to—

oh my God, just smash it. Yeah, you're gonna ruin the countertop.

This— this— you won't ruin this thing.

I— this is a surprise video, okay? At the end, you better be really surprised about this amazing thing that I made for you. That hurts. Okay, I need something.

No, just do that.

I'm not gonna smash it on the countertop.

It won't break. I've done that before.

Hold on, guys. It's really important when you're making smoothies to not forget your hammer, okay? Really important kitchen ingredient that helps you in lots of situations, okay? We have our bag of frozen— I want to say vegetables— fruit.

Oh my God!

Guys, pro tip: when hammering the fruit out of the bag, aim it so that the bag is not going towards the floor. Now we need a handful.

Wash it, it's on the floor.

Guys, if you drop food on the floor, you wash it, okay? Oh my God, it's so cold. This is a handful. Okay, handful of fruit. We got— we have 1 grape, 1 grape, and then 1 blueberry, 1 blueberry, 4 pieces of pineapple, and 3 honeydew. The honeydew—

what is this?

That's the perfect quantity for this smoothie, so remember that, okay? When you're buying your ingredients, 1 blueberry, 3 pieces of pineapple, When you tie the bag back up, make sure it's not in a crazy Chinese knot so you can undo it. Last step before we blend, we gotta add some water because that is not gonna blend. So we put some water in here.

That's it.

So just like that. So the water goes to— I can't even see it. Where's the water line? See there? See that water line? That means it's perfect. Okay? Look at this! Look at how gross that banana looks on top. That looks like the least appetizing thing I've ever seen. Look at that banana. Bananas are supposed to be yellow. Did you know that? Alright, Vitamix. Let's get our Vitamix out. There it is. Alright, we plug that in. It's gonna get noisy, but it's gonna be tasty. The perfect entrepreneur smoothie. About to come out. And we're done! This is actually super helpful because you can smush it down when it's not behaving. There we go. Look at that! Awesome! All I smell is cucumber. This looks nasty. Okay, things are falling on me. What are we gonna put it in? Let's get our Starbucks tumbler. How much do you want, Nina?

Doesn't matter.

No, okay, it doesn't matter. Let's get something smaller. I should give it to her in this. I like her freak out, but we're gonna be nice to her. We'll give it— we'll do this. We'll do the AWeber mug. AWeber mug. Okay, let's pour that in there. Perfect. This is it. This is the moment of truth that we've all been waiting for. Okay, Nina. Nina, honey, I have a surprise for you. I have a surprise. Oh, there she is. Look at what I made.

Oh, hello.

Huh? Okay, why don't you look at— why don't you smile at the camera?

Smells like cucumber.

Yeah, I know, it really does smell like cucumber. Okay, try it. No, that's gross. I know what's in there. It's gross.

It's not gross.

That banana is going to give you nightmares, dude. You try it first, see if you can handle it.

That's what I've been using in your smoothies.

Okay, don't make me think about that. Okay, go. And— Holy cow, you're downing it. Okay, that's not how you drink a smoothie. You're drinking it like it's water. You're supposed to taste it. Can you enjoy the flavor that I put into this? Yeah, it's yummy. Is it?

Haha, it's yummy.

All I see is rotten banana and all I smell is cucumber. There's a lot of backwash in here.

Yeah, it's—

It's not bad actually. It's all me.

You know what it is?

It's the one blueberry. It made all the difference. Guys, make sure to add one blueberry. It's not bad actually.

You can add more. Well, if they want it sweeter, they can add more fruits.

Okay, this is my video. Okay, you want Nina's cooking video, go check out her cooking channel. This is Life with Evan. Okay, or Evan Cooks.

If you want it to be sweeter, you can put more fruit in there. Or add dates in there.

We have dates. I asked if you wanted dates.

You didn't ask me.

Yeah, yeah, frozen dates. I did.

No.

Do these qualify as fruits? What is this? Dates?

No, we don't have frozen dates.

We don't have frozen dates? What is this? What's this?

That's Chinese dates.

It's not for— Oh, so Chinese dates are not dates.

No, I didn't say it's not dates. It's not meant for smoothie. There's another date. So we have dates in the fridge.

Freezer.

Okay, thank you guys for watching. I hope you guys enjoyed this video. It's actually a really funny video. Continue to believe and whatever you want works. We will see you soon.

Bye! You did good. I mean, you should be saying that to me. I did good.

You did well, baby. You did well.

Chinese dates aren't dates.