All this excitement encouraged me to order a box of fruit for juicing. I've had a juicer for some time but like most households it ended up in the place household appliances go to die, i.e. nestled next to the bread maker and all the appendages to my food processor that I don't understand. Imagine my great joy, then, when my juicing box arrived packed with two kilos of apples, two kilos of oranges, two kilos of carrots, a big pile of beetroot, ginger, lemons and some celery.
Naturally I got to work
immediately and having had some reasonable success with some carrot
and apple juice last week, I thought to myself, 'hey why not blend up
some more veggie juice?' I'll be so intensely healthy I will never
get a cold again! In went some carrots, a nice sweet apple, a
beetroot and, gulp, some celery. The emerging juice, courtesy of the
beets, looked like something that would be at home on the Vampire
Diaries. Undeterred I took a big swig.
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| Dalek like juicer and dodgy looking juice! |
It was horrific.
Seriously, never, ever,
ever juice celery. Nothing can mask that taste. And adding beets,
well it kind of just taste like celery mixed with mud. Urgh.
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| The only place for celery if you ask me |
Summer Tastes
Peachy!
1 Banana (peeled and in
rough chunks)
1 Peach (just chop the
stone out)
2 Oranges (peeled and
juiced)
One Tablespoon of
Natural Yoghurt
Chuck in a blender,
whizz it up for a minute or so and there you have it. Lovely smooth,
summery smoothie
– and not a stick of celery in sight!!
But I LIKE celery, Nicola, AND beetroot - though not juiced. :-) You're so right about the fruit and veg. DH and I have upped our intake hugely over the last few years and haven't had as much as a sniffle all winter. I've probably tempted fate in saying that and will now go down with the mother and father of all summer colds....
ReplyDeleteHa ha, yes celery and beetroot are fine in their right place - that place is just not a blender or juicer!! :)
DeleteThanks for the advice - quick question, when you juiced the celery did you still have celery bits come with the juice? Because I quite like the taste, it's just the weird stringy texture I find a bit ming.
ReplyDeleteWill defo be trying the summer juice though, that sounds beautiful!
Actually no, no weird stringy bits! My juicer has quite a fine sieve so not much gets through it. Hope you like the summer juice! Thanks for commenting! :)
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