Thursday, 10 January 2013

Give me more JUICE!

I've recently gone juice crazy by making a smorgasbord of delicious green concoctions using various fruits and vegetables! Usually these juices consist of whatever is either A) going bad or     B) simply left in the refrigerator... ha!

 The first green juice:
4-5 sticks of celery
half a cucumber
1 red apple
(This one tastes delicious -- very simple ingredients and tastes wonderful!)






The second green juice:
3-4 sticks of celery
3-4 large Kale leaves
half a cup of red grapes
1 banana
1/2 cup of water







Another juice to try (which I don't have a picture of)
2-3 Kale leaves
1/2 cup of Spinach leaves
3-4 sticks Celery
1 Apple
1 teaspoon Ginger

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I've also made smoothies with my own home-made almond milk 
(impressive, right? Not really - its SO EASY!)

Almond milk:
1 cup of unsalted/raw almonds
(soak them overnight in water)
Blend one cup of almonds with 3 cups of water
Use a strainer to clear out the almond chunks (I personally like the chunks for my smoothies, but if you're using it for your cereal/coffee, straining is a good idea)
and... VOILA!





Typically I prefer using blueberries, but in this case my raspberries were going bad, so I decided to make the smoothie with them instead:

1 banana
1 1/2 tbsp of natural almond butter
1 cup of raspberries (or blueberries)
1 cup of almond milk
1 tbsp of ground flax seed


This literally tastes like dessert! Soo good :)