Juice Day 5

Recipe:

     3 large carrots

     2 stalks of celery

     2 apples [1 Granny Smith, 1 Gala]

Review:

     I love this juice!  Light, refreshing, not too sweet, not too veg and such a pretty orange!

Juice day 4

Recipe:

     1 handful of spinach

     2 stalks of celery

     3 smallish carrots

     1 Granny Smith apple

Review:

     Remarkably light and very tasty.  I'm still blown away by how powerful the celery smells and how light it actually tastes.  There's a recipe that's just celery juice and honey that I am now curious about trying out.

Tomato Jam and Juice Day 3

Went to the farmer's market this morning on a mission.  The mission was to find something to make jam out of.  The strawberries were a bit expensive, so a friend and I turned these bad boys into a very tasty tomato jam, which is absolutely dynamite on grilled cheese.  We went into a bit of a canning frenzy as she also decided to make chicken stock, so I got to learn pressure canning and hot water bath canning all at once.  It was rather comical trying to juggle an enormous stock pot, a pressure canner, a dutch oven and a 2-quart sauce pan on her stove, but we made it happen.

Recipe:
     2 small beets
     2 carrots
     1 Granny Smith apple

Review:
     Very tasty!  I peeled the beets as I read that not peeling them results in a very "earthy" flavor that not everyone finds appealing.  It does have a bit of an earthy taste, but it's not unpleasant.

I am finding that the variety of apple I use in my juices makes a big difference.  The first juices I made were with Pink Lady apples and that resulted in a very sweet, easily drinkable juice.  I think the bolder flavor of the Ladies could make a veggie-heavy juice more accessible to a new or reluctant juicer.  Gala apples are much milder and are more neutral in flavor.  It's almost like they just add juice volume without shifting the flavor meter much.  The Granny Smiths have a tartness that plays well with the vegetables and adds dimension to a vegetable juice that doesn't feel like a masking agent for the veggies.

Juice Day 2

Green Ginger Ale from juicerecipes.com

Recipe:
     3 apples
     2 stalks of celery
     1 cucumber, peeled
     1 lime, peeled
     1 small piece fresh ginger

Review:
     My juice turned out a lovely shade of pink, while the featured recipe on the Juice Recipes website is very green...may have to do with the Gala apples I used.

Not my favorite juice.  It has an overwhelming smell of celery and the juice is tart and tangy.  Not horribly so, but I don't think I'll be in a hurry to make this one again.  [Now watch, it'll end up being my favorite juice.]

Juice day 1

Since my most awesome sister bought me a juicer for Christmas and I'd like to keep track of the recipes I try, I'm tossing them here, at least for now.

Recipe:
     4 apples [reserve 1 for after the spinach]
     1 mango
     2 oranges
     handful of spinach

Review:
     Very tasty!  Would definitely make it again.  I made enough of the fruit part of the juice to split with my hubby [I left out the spinach for his glass], ran the spinach through and ran the last apple through to clear out the spinach.