Vacation Juicing

It's nice to have relatives who live in a touristy area, because it makes for a cheap vacation!  This week I'm blogging from Amish Country, Ohio and will be using my mom's Jack LaLanne's Power Juicer.

It's a much quieter juicer than my Breville and has only one setting for juicing (as opposed to 5 different power settings on my own).  I feel that examining the pulp is a good judgement of a juicer's efficiency, and the pulp from the Jack LaLanne Juicer looked exactly the same as the Breville pulp (comparable amount and wetness for the fruits and veggies I usually use).

Now on to our hammock-layin', cloud-gazin', sun-bathin', pool-chillin', veggie-juicin' vacation!

Chillin' like Magellan:
3 cups spinach
1 head romaine lettuce
3 stalks celery
1 tomato
1 english cucumber
2 oranges
1 apple

My four year old LOVES to help.

Spinach juice.

A Tall Cold One.

An Apple a Day

We love having loads of apples around.  They are such a great snack for kids and I love adding them to ordinary recipes to make something extraordinary.  Sometimes I grate them and make apple bread or muffins.  Or I chop them and sprinkle them in pancake or waffle batter (with cinnamon, of course!).  And don't forget how delicious sliced apples are in your green salad, accompanied by walnuts.

Sweet Green:
2 c. turnip greens
1 c. iceberg lettuce
3 celery stalks
1 c. grapes
1 apple
1 orange

Little Juicers.

Cucumber Foam

The last time I had cucumber foam was slurping it out of an oyster shell at a fancy restaurant in Washington, DC ten years ago.  My husband was the winner of a WGMS call-in prize: dinner with the radio personality Shannon Finney and her then fiance, Jim Totten.  It was a sublime dining experience; the fresh, light, cool cucumber fluff never replicated until today.

Though we've experimented with juicing cucumbers a couple times before, I recently read a tip to peel the cucumber to avoid adding a bitter flavor to your juice.  Not only was the juice more delicious, but the texture of the juice was light and fluffy, foamy.

An additional benefit to using cucumbers in your juice is the anti-inflammatory qualities in cucumbers; if you or a loved one is suffering from a sore throat this could be soothing.

What went in:
2 celery stalks
1/2 beet
1/2 cucumber (peeled)
2 clementines (peeled)
2 apples
1 pear

pink foam clings to side of glass