My Cup Runneth Over

A delicious and very juicy collection of produce reminds me to

1.  Put pitcher under fountain before I begin juicing
2.  Watch level of juice in pitcher before I add two oranges

Ah, these lessons in life are necessary and funny, really...once you get all the sticky juice cleaned up!

Abundant Blessings:
1 head romaine lettuce
1 cucumber
2 tomatoes
5 carrots
1 apple
2 oranges

Broken Food Pusher

Well, the first sign of wear and tear has appeared with my Breville.  I have been using it daily for three months.  The food pusher is hollow, plastic, and the cap is removable.  Under the lid is a metal disc attached with screws that thread into the hollow plastic pusher tube.  The threading for the screw broke on one side, so that the metal disc cannot attach.  The cap can still attach.

As far as I can tell, the metal disc served no crucial purpose.  It was not air tight so that when it fell off, I detected some food particles in the pusher tube that had been trapped.  Without the metal disc I suppose it is easier to clean.

I did notice that the part costs $25 to replace and that it is currently out of stock on the Breville website.

The Panache of Spinach

I made grilled mozzarella, marinara, pepperoni and spinach sandwiches for lunch, but someone picked their spinach off their sandwich. Though I am not blameless in the picky eating category, I've always loved spinach.

Juicing spinach is thrilling. My four year old helped me by using the food pushing tool and we both exclaimed at the bright green juice that dripped through the fountain. My guess is that even Popeye the Sailor man would switch from eating spinach by the can if he tried my recipe today:

2 apples
1 pear
3 large carrots
1 1/2 c. raw spinach
1 celery stalk (leaves and all)
1 tomato

p.s. Someone who didn't want spinach on their sandwich sucked down a tall glass of this juice a few hours later proclaiming it "great!"