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Juicy Juicy

recipe October 23, 2013

Yummy, yum, yum - I've really gotten into this whole "juice" trend. I'm sure everyone and their mother knows what I'm talking about. Seems like everyone has tried out juicing, either buying juices at the shops or making the juice themselves. Some have stuck to it, and some, well, haven't.

I started getting into juicing when I discovered this juice shop we have here in Switzerland called "Suc". They have a huge juicer and offer different kinds of juices and prepare the fresh juice on the spot. It's really delicious - and incredibly expensive!

So, for at least a few months, I've been interested in purchasing a juicer and we finally found one that was on sale!

The brand is called Solis and the juicer has two speeds: "low" and "high". I didn't want to spend a ton of money (hello, 500 bucks for a juicer?!) so I decided to go for a machine which has at least 2 speeds.

So, I thought I'd share a juice recipe which I've been using lately. It's basically a bunch of fruits and veggies which I enjoy. And you can totally decide on your own how many of each fruit or how much veg you want to add to your juice. It all depends on your taste, if you rather have your juice be sweet, sour, bitter, etc.

Ingredients:

1 grapefruit

2 oranges

2 apples

1 kiwi

about 2 inches of ginger

2 pieces of kale

2 pieces of chard

I've got to mention, instead of chard I usually use about 2 handfuls of spinach leaves. The juice tastes a little more "green" with the chard and if you use spinach, you basically can't taste it. (The small rest of spinach which I had went bad, that's why I used chard today.)

I can definitely give you the tip of always using apples in your juice since they're ultra healthy and they give a nice sweetness to the juice.

I love adding ginger to my juices since it gives a nice kick. But don't use too much since it can very quickly be a very overpowering taste. And ginger is apparently really healthy for you.

Here's a little tip for peeling oranges. I've never seen anyone peel them like I do so maybe this might help if you have trouble or just don't like peeling them.

I like to cute through the skin of the orange one way around and then the other way around, just cutting through the skin, not the whole orange. Then, I cut off the edge of the orange on one side. Then you can start peeling all 4 pieces of skin off the orange, as you can see in the photo above. For me, this is the easiest way of peeling an orange and it's better than peeling with a knife since I tend to cute too far and take too much fruit off with the skin.

I really love that there's this piece of plastic on my juice container which catches the froth when pouring your juice into a glass. The piece of plastic catches the froth on top and lets the juice flow out. I noticed this to be a cool feature since I watched Estée's video where she mentions that she hates the juice froth, just like me haha!