When I create a blog post on a recipe, I try to think about why a recipe is meaningful to me. What’s the first thing I think about when I think of the recipe? Did I grow up eating it? Was there some positive happening in my life I associate with the food? Was there a cool story as to how I found the recipe? Usually there’s some reason it’s meaningful. So when I think of a strawberry lemonade smoothie, what do I think of? Actually, I have a pretty strong association between strawberry lemonade smoothies and the strawberry lemonade at Red Robin’s. They did free refills on the strawberry lemonade and the French Fries. As a young teenager, eager to prove himself, I would take it upon myself to see how many of those free refills I could drink in one sitting. This happened more times than I care to admit…..but I could usually drink 6-8 of them before nausea would set in. The things we do for the acceptance of others….sigh. Luckily I grew out of such attempts at bravado and I even have a job now, so I guess things turned out okay. So for me, I guess strawberry lemonade smoothie reminds me of my youth, both the good times, and the self-inflicted nausea times.