Pineapple Mint Lemonade

Pineapple definitely dominates this juice, but the mint scent is intoxicating.  If you like a lemony juice you might want to increase the amount to one whole lemon.

Green and Foamy:
2 cups spinach
3 stalks celery
1 cucumber
1 cup mint leaves
1/2 lemon
1/3 pineapple
2 apples

Separation Anxiety

Every time I make juice, stir it, pour it into a glass, the juice immediately begins to separate.  The lighter-colored juice sinks to the bottom and there is always a top layer.  Much of this is foam, I know, but even when I use less-foamy veggies, there is usually some separation.

My theory is because I usually put at least one apple in my concoctions, that juice must be heavier because it is sweeter, and that is what sinks to the bottom.  I couldn't find any evidence to support this theory, but I did find this time lapse video clip of apple juice separating.

Supertoll:
1/2 head romiane lettuce
2 celery stalks
2 radishes
2 apples
1 pear

Separate the men from the boys.

Tropical Tang

As it turns out, celery may be my favorite juice ingredient for many reasons:

• it's flavor is subtle and works with almost any other veggie and fruit
• celery is very juicy, leaving very little pulp
• it's inexpensive
• it's extremely healthy
• frankly, celery is fun to send down the hopper, watching the greens lower bit by bit to their juicy fate

Here's a great juice that has a heavenly, light foamy body and yet it's not super sweet: almost sour, in fact. 

Sensible Drinking:
5 stalks of celery
1/2 pineapple
1 grapefruit (peeled)
1 head of romaine lettuce
1 stalk of kale

A guy walks into the doctor's office. A banana stuck in one of his ears, a celery stalk in the other ear,
and a carrot stuck in one nostril. The man says, "Doc, this is terrible. What's wrong with me?" 

The doctor says, "Well, first of all, you need to eat more sensibly."

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