Juicing in the New Year
Happy New Year! Not much cooking over here lately...we decided to do a juice fast/cleanse/detox to start the year off right. Hubby and I went a little off track during the time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I mean, cookies. Need I say more? We're now on day 8 of a 10-day juice fast. I thought I would take this opportunity to share some of our juice recipes with you. Aunt Louanne, please avert your eyes. We'll start with the classics...Mean Green. You may notice that we got a new juicer. Mom's 1984 Oster wasn't working for us anymore. After conducting some exhaustive research on the internet, Hubby decided we HAD to have an upright masticating juicer. I like it. It's a workhorse for sure. Meen Green (original recipe) consists of: 6 leaves kale 4 ribs celery 1 cucumber 2 apples 1/2 lemon (peeled) knob of ginger Chop them up, juice them, and voila: Doesn't it just scream "Healthy"? I like it now, but it took a while. ...