This new juicer has really got me hooked! Today's gorgeously GREEN selection is:
1 Cucumber
1 Celery stalk
4 Kale leaves
1 1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1/2 lemon, peeled
1/2" piece of ginger
No need to peel. I only do if the cucumber has wax, or if it is not organic. Then, juice away. This stuff is fantastic, so bright and fresh from the lemon and ginger.
A little background here:
My better-half is not only NOT vegan, but a die-hard carnivore. (A very vegan friendly carnivore, but a meat-eater, nonetheless). This fact makes for interesting meal-times, BUT my vegan cooking has managed to win her over.
However, there are some ingredients that she won't touch. My aversion to cow's milk and a hunk of steak is the equivalent of her hatred of LEAFY GREENS. Now, all hard-hitting vegans with any nutritional sense at all know that kale, swiss chard, spinach, and collard greens are regarded as nutritional goddesses in the plant-based world. But, my dear L will not touch them. Whole, raw, cooked, or OVER-cooked (not by me, mind you) she runs from greens like they were a steaming bowl of toxic waste.
This makes me sad, as I do love me a big plate of sautéed greens, but just as she does not bring meat and dairy in our home for me to cook, so do I choose NOT to base a whole meal around dark, leafy greens. That's just not fair... (I wait 'til she's somewhere else for dinner, and then go crazy)!
So, a while back, we watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead on Netlfix. We are truly documentary gluttons, and can crank through 4 or 5 in one sitting if the mood strikes. This particular story struck a chord in L, and she toyed with the idea of possibly wanting to try a juice fast, or at least add raw juice into our diets. But juicers are expensive, and noisy, and messy, and I needed another appliance like I needed a hole in the head. Plus with L's intense hatred of leafy greens, I though the whole juice fast idea would go down in flames with her first sip of a freshly pressed curly kale leaf.
Fast forward to the week of July 4th, 2012. Provincetown Vacation - one whole week of fun and sun!
There is the most fantastic organic market in town: 141 Bradford Natural Market which is a vegan's dream come true. It's a tad on the pricey side, but when you rent a beach house for the week, and bring in all your own food, it's nice to know there is a place where you can run in, and pick up hummus, freshly baked bread, soy coffee creamer, kombucha or even Daiya cheese, if you want!
They also have a RAW JUICE BAR.
We wandered in the there on day 2 of our vacation, just to check the place out. L found herself in line at the juice bar, and ordered herself up a big, tall glass of GREEN juice: kale, cucumber, apple, lemon and ginger, to be exact. With her hatred of all things green, I thought to myself "why on Earth..."?? So, I waited with baited breath at her reaction to her first sip...
Well, she thought it was FANTASTIC, and I, well let's just say, I was thrilled. And, it was there I knew, that juicing was in our future ^_^
1 Cucumber
1 Celery stalk
4 Kale leaves
1 1/2 cup pineapple chunks
1/2 lemon, peeled
1/2" piece of ginger
No need to peel. I only do if the cucumber has wax, or if it is not organic. Then, juice away. This stuff is fantastic, so bright and fresh from the lemon and ginger.
A little background here:
My better-half is not only NOT vegan, but a die-hard carnivore. (A very vegan friendly carnivore, but a meat-eater, nonetheless). This fact makes for interesting meal-times, BUT my vegan cooking has managed to win her over.
However, there are some ingredients that she won't touch. My aversion to cow's milk and a hunk of steak is the equivalent of her hatred of LEAFY GREENS. Now, all hard-hitting vegans with any nutritional sense at all know that kale, swiss chard, spinach, and collard greens are regarded as nutritional goddesses in the plant-based world. But, my dear L will not touch them. Whole, raw, cooked, or OVER-cooked (not by me, mind you) she runs from greens like they were a steaming bowl of toxic waste.
This makes me sad, as I do love me a big plate of sautéed greens, but just as she does not bring meat and dairy in our home for me to cook, so do I choose NOT to base a whole meal around dark, leafy greens. That's just not fair... (I wait 'til she's somewhere else for dinner, and then go crazy)!
So, a while back, we watched Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead on Netlfix. We are truly documentary gluttons, and can crank through 4 or 5 in one sitting if the mood strikes. This particular story struck a chord in L, and she toyed with the idea of possibly wanting to try a juice fast, or at least add raw juice into our diets. But juicers are expensive, and noisy, and messy, and I needed another appliance like I needed a hole in the head. Plus with L's intense hatred of leafy greens, I though the whole juice fast idea would go down in flames with her first sip of a freshly pressed curly kale leaf.
Fast forward to the week of July 4th, 2012. Provincetown Vacation - one whole week of fun and sun!
There is the most fantastic organic market in town: 141 Bradford Natural Market which is a vegan's dream come true. It's a tad on the pricey side, but when you rent a beach house for the week, and bring in all your own food, it's nice to know there is a place where you can run in, and pick up hummus, freshly baked bread, soy coffee creamer, kombucha or even Daiya cheese, if you want!
They also have a RAW JUICE BAR.
We wandered in the there on day 2 of our vacation, just to check the place out. L found herself in line at the juice bar, and ordered herself up a big, tall glass of GREEN juice: kale, cucumber, apple, lemon and ginger, to be exact. With her hatred of all things green, I thought to myself "why on Earth..."?? So, I waited with baited breath at her reaction to her first sip...
Well, she thought it was FANTASTIC, and I, well let's just say, I was thrilled. And, it was there I knew, that juicing was in our future ^_^
Becky, I'm sure the lemon and ginger brought the juice together nicely. Sounds like a cool way to enjoy the Summer months.
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