Pistachio Smoothie

Smoothies have become quite popular in many countries during the last couple of decades. This is a great one, especially if you like pistachio nuts and it's super easy to make.


Ingredients (3 to 5 servings, depending upon glass size):

1 cup roasted pistachio nuts (I buy the already shelled pistachios)
3 1/2 cups cold water
1/2 cup vanilla yogurt
1 teaspoon ground turmeric
1 1/2 cup ice cubes or about 3/4 cup crushed ice

Put the pistachios into your blender and grind them until they finely ground. Make sure to stop the blender a couple of times and scrape the sides down to make sure all of the pistachios are ground. Add the yogurt and the turmeric, then add the water (I rinsed the measuring cup I'd used for the yogurt with the water). Add the ice and blend until everything is well mixed and there is some froth.  

WORD HISTORY:
Froth-This word has a shaky distant history, as it presumably is of Germanic origin, but its relatives are all from just North Germanic, not the broader Germanic languages, nor even more specifically West Germanic, as English is a West Germanic language. Old English had "afreoðan" ('ð' essentially equals, 'th'), which meant, "to froth," and also, Old English "freoðan." If other West Germanic languages had a form of the word, I would likely say that this Old English form was taken by the Anglo-Saxons when they left the Continent on their way to founding England, but I've not found such West Germanic forms, nor even one such form. It could be a North Germanic creation, which then was taken to England by Old Norse speakers who periodically raided along the English coast, and who then began to even settle in parts of England. Anyway, the Old English verb, with reinforcement from the Old Norse form "froða," likely spawned the modern English noun "froth" (once also spelled "frooth" and "frothe," with the edning "e" pronounced "eh/ah") by the late 1200s, which also became a verb ("frothen") by the second half of the 1300s. The word is often also used as an adjective as "frothy." Other related forms are only in North Germanic: Danish "fraade," Swedish "fradga," Icelandic "froða" ("foam").