yet another reason

chances of major injury to self caused by girl from the prairie attempting to open coconut from far away island in the pacific: HIGH

perhaps we are not evolutionarily (is that a word?) adapted to get into foods that do not come from our region of birth. yet another good reason to buy food produced locally!

however, the juice above was heavenly:

3 small beets
1 large carrot
2 apples
½ lemon
1 piece of ginger
1 small fresh coconut

just to set the record straight, i bought the coconuts before my big declaration yesterday about eating food that's been locally/regionally produced. it would have been wasteful to throw them out just because they were sailed here in a container from the other side of the world. and the juice was delicious. even tho' i almost lost a finger trying to hammer into the thing. sometimes eating is dangerous.

april 1 juice

this is going to sound like an april fool's joke, but it's not. i swear it's delicious:

1 small stalk of broccoli
1 medium carrot
1 large orange
1 large apple
1 hunk of ginger

fantastic. it'll perk you right out of a deep blue funk, i promise.

still juicing

i haven't given up the juice, i'm just stuck in a bit of a juice rut, so i haven't continued to share the recipes. every time i stand in front of the juicer, in go carrots, beets, an orange, an apple and a hunk of ginger. it's heaven. and i can drink it 3-4 times a day, no problem.

the juice continues

juice 10: 6 carrots, 3 small beets, 1 orange, 1 apple
juice 11: melon, pineapple, 1 apple
juice 12: 6 carrots, 1 avocado, 1 clove garlic, 1 red pepper
juice 13: 1 small head romaine, handful each of spinach, arugula, cilantro, 1 lemon, 1 apple

if i wouldn't eventually miss chewing things, i think i could just live on these juices.

the juice experiment continues

today's juices:

• juice 7: handful of baby spinach, 3" piece of cucumber, one small head of romaine, one apple, knob of ginger, one organic lemon
• juice 8: 3 oranges, 2 thick slices of fresh pineapple
• juice 9: 8 medium carrots, 1 clove garlic, one avocado, handful of cilantro

this juicer is amazing. yum. it seems there's no end to the possibilities of what can be juiced.

the greatest thing since sliced bread

i got a juicer today. it's completely fabulous. i have no idea how i lived for 40 (almost 41) years on this planet and didn't have one until today. it is the single most amazing appliance in my kitchen.

since purchasing it around noon today i have made the following juices:

• juice 1: 2 fiji apples, 2 oranges, 1 kiwi, ½ mango
• juice 2: 1 granny smith apple, 1 pear, 1/4 honeydew melon, 12 seedless green grapes, 1/4 lemon
• juice 3: 2 kiwi, 1 granny smith apple, 1/4 lemon, ½ mango, 1/4 honeydew melon
• juice 4: 8 carrots
• juice 5: 1 hunk of celery root (at last a purpose for those ugly things!), 1 hunk of cabbage, 5 organic tomatoes, 1 carrot, 1 red pepper (the smaller, longer, but still sweet ones), 1 shallot, 1/4 lemon
• juice 6: version of "green lemonade" containing 1 small head of romaine lettuce, 4 broccoli florets, one organic lemon, ginger and one fiji apple (or is that fuji apple?) fantastic!

juice 5 made a mean bloody mary with a dash of soy (the philippine one with calamansi in it) and a dash of worcestershire sauce (despite me starting a detox today, i couldn't help but put a shot of nice, clear, clean absolut in--how bad can it be in its clear purity?).

making delicious, fresh, vitamin-filled juices is going to be our new way of life. it's just so satisfying to have a lovely bowl of fresh juice ingredients on the countertop, ready to be transformed into delicious, delectible juice at a moment's notice. heaven. this is WAY better than sliced bread (which is arguably not really all that good for you...)!