Turning Over a New Turnip Leaf

Well, now that I have bought two pounds of turnip greens, I'll be drinking a lot of "powerful" juice.  Today I used red cabbage with my turnip greens.  The cabbage juice is a rich red-violet color, but once I added all other ingredients, my juice was chocolate brown.

NOT Chocolate:
2 cups turnip greens
1 cup red cabbage
2 carrots
2 stalks celery
1 orange
1 apple

Have you had your Not Chocolate today?

Oh, Snap!

Want to drink a juice that bites back?  Then you want to use turnip greens in your recipe.  They don't look like much: weeds, really.  But they are sharp and crisp, and go a long way for flavor.  So refreshing.

The Strong, Silent Type:
2 c. turnip greens
2 c. spinach
2 celery stalks
2 oranges
1 apple

Glowing Juice, Glowing Reviews

The color of this juice caused my watching children to inhale sharply; it was like pouring sunshine into a glass.  The flavor was no less impressive.  Sweet, fresh, invigorating.

Roots and Fruits:
4 carrots
2 radishes
5 stalks celery
1 large tomato
1 1/2 navel oranges
2 apples

Dancing With Ginger

That ginger root has been staring at me from my produce drawer for the past 4 weeks.  A common ingredient in juicing recipes, but I haven't been brave enough to try it until juicing with my mom this week.  I only used a 1/4 inch sliver and although it smelled wonderful when I cut it, I really did not care for the overall flavor of the juice.

Drinking an Egg Roll:
1/4 inch sliver fresh ginger root
4 branches kale
1/2 beet
1/3 head iceberg lettuce
4 stalks celery
1/2 lemon
4 clementines
1/2 english cucumber
2 apples
1/2 c grapes

Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, dance on air.

The Money Beets

A new year is a good time to try new things. Buying beets, for example. Even though the cashier at Krogers rang them up as collard greens, I am in no position to correct her. It was my first time buying them.



This morning I learned that beets are no joke. They are intense. My stained tablecloth, fingers and mouth can attest to that. My daughters couldn't resist trying this red, red juice.

And, as luck would have it, I ran into an expert juicer last night. She told me that juicing the long, stalks of greens at tops of beets is perfectly fine if you plan to drink immediately.

2 beets (greens and all)
3 carrots
2 pears
4 clementines (peeled)

Blogger's Note:  Although this is the exact recipe that I enjoyed, it should be mentioned that I did experience nausea for a couple hours after I posted this blog entry.  After some research, I believe the nausea was due to the amount of raw beet I consumed.  One blog I found lists side effects of too much beet consumption, and recommends 1/4 or 1/2 beet at a time.