Friday, May 17, 2013

Red Sunrise

Thanks to my past experience of working at booster juice for this recipe.

Note:  This requires a juicer.


Nicest colour!  Deeeep dark red.

All it takes is a bunch of red beets, carrots and oranges (I put in some Swiss Chard too for added health).

I'm going to guess the beats/carrot/orange ratio is about  2/2/1.

If it's not sweet enough just add more oranges!  Easy peasy.  Gives the good feels.

Friday, May 3, 2013

Greens juice


Got quite a bit of green juice here!  What went in:
1 whole cucumber (these produce a lot of juice! great ingredient for juicing)
a bunch of heads of dino and red kale (pictured) 
2 whole carrots
4 heads of swiss chard

I'm new to juicing, but I've noticed some key things that are helpful.  First, make sure there's a nice balance of tastes, it's easy to make a juice taste bad if there's too much of things that aren't sweet, like kale, spinach, etc.  It's nice to bring back some sweeter vegetables like carrots (make juices much much nicer) and cucumbers.  These are great helpers in this department. Fruits are obvious sweeteners too, and often provide lots of juice too.



Here's the muscle.  An omega juicer, which is working great so far.  Basically, the bulk of this is just a motor (inside white part) I believe, and the rest just turns and crushes the vegetables (lovingly) and produces juice from the bottom tubing, and outputs the waste, or pulp through the horizontal opening at the end, which I'm learning acts as great fertilizer in a garden.  Everything must be used effectively!

Yellow Smoothie, Earth Tea


This smoothie is great, and very very easy.

1 banana
Tumeric - a decent amount, to your liking
Cinnamon - a dash of
Ginger - I like ginger, so I put quite a decent chunk of fresh ginger in
Ice - Put some in to blend, then put more in after it's blended and just blend partially to get some nice texture

3rd chakra drink - Power center, energy, willpower. associated with the power of fire and digestion.  interesting that turmeric is said to be a great digestive aid.



This might be the healthiest little brew I've cooked up.  Can be a little expensive because of certain ingredients. 

Matcha Green Tea - small scoop (there's lots of different kinds, I use DoMatcha)
Lemon - A half or full juiced one
Ginger - Same as the yellow smoothie
Cayenne Pepper - A sprinkle, this is a great digestive spice (also is great to put in cuts! who knew?)
Goji Berries - I got mine from the bulk barn, probably the cheapest I could find, these guys can get pricey
Hot Water