My New Fall Juice

I was at the store today and saw my favorite thing to cook with .... cranberries! So of course I had to grab a bag and head home to the juicer! I took out my favorite produce and whipped up a new Fall juice and wanted to share it with you all. Fresh, Fall and very easy to make. YES it's from Sandi, so it does have a a few produce items in it but it is so worth every one of them.

2 Large Beets Peeled and cubed

4 oranges(peeled)

2 lemons (peeled)

3 limes (peeled)

4 Granny Smith Apples 

1 cup Cherries (pitted)

2 cups fresh Cranberries

2 pounds Carrots

Serve over ICE

Hint: Fill your shoot with your cherries and cranberries and put your plunger in. Then turn on your juicer. Your berries will now juice and will not shoot out all over the place. Once they juice you can turn off the juicer and till the shoot again until you have juiced all your small items. Follow all your small items with any produce that is soft like pears, peaches or apples. Then follow with carrots so that the carrots will wash out all the residue left behind. Make sure to check your pulp container though out  your juicing time. 

Another Hint: I place a plastic bag from the grocery store in my pulp container before I juice so that I have less to clean up. I check it mid way through and press down on the pulp so that I have more room for pulp. Continue on juicing. 

I like to save this pulp to use in muffins but that is for another recipe. LOL

Til tomorrow

Have a Juicy Day

Sandi

September 1 My Morning Juice

I love to play with my produce!!! Guess I never listened to my mom when she said "Stop Playing with YOUR Food." Playing with food makes creating juices so much fun!

In the mornings I do not drink any juice with kale because I take thyroid medicine. So that means creating fun, tasty juices that have no kale or broccoli, cauliflower, collard greens or brussel sprouts in them. I could take the easy way out and just juice a single fruit like orange or apple but what fun would that be? Not only that I have it my head *Gotta have Veggies in Every Drink.*

So this is how I started my September Saturday Morning.

1 Cup fresh pitted Cherries (Bing)

3 Oranges (peeled) 

1 Large Peach (pitted)

6 Carrots

1 Lime (peeled)

2 Beets

1 Granny Smith Apple

1 Fuji Apple

Juice all above in the order given... Hard produce after the soft produce so that it will wash out all the left over residue into the juice. YOU are Not Wasting anything and enjoying everything. 

Look at how beautiful this juice is.

Serve Cold.

 Til Later 

Stay Juicy

Sandi

Tomato Basil Juice- Oh What an Amazing Juice This One IS!

Wanted to share with you my new favorite juice...Tomato Basil Juice. Look at the beautiful glass of juice! The separation shows you the amber glow of Fresh PURE Tomato Juice! Topped off with the Gorgeous, Delicious Red ...Can't you just taste it now?

Tomato Basil Juice

8-10 Beef stake Tomatoes (can use roma but you will need 15-18 Roma's)
1 large handful of fresh Basil
4 green onions (only the bulbs and 2 inches up the stem)
1 clove of Garlic
Black Pepper to taste.
Juice all the veggies & fruit above and place in a container. Add  pepper to taste.

After you clean up don't throw away that pulp! Save it for a Tomato Basil Sauce... store your pulp in a bag or container in the fridge until you have time to make it into a sauce. It can also be frozen.
Sauce Recipe to come in a few days...until then grab some Tomatoes and Basil and get your Juice On!
Stay Juicy
Sandi

Yummy Yummy In Our Tummies! Juice Recipes

I wanted to showcase and give you all some recipes now only from me and my family but from some of my Juicing Friends. I will share pictures if I have some. Hope you will try them out at your home too.

Tracey White's WoW We Juice

2 smallish beetroots

1 Large Lemon with half the skin on

2 Cucumbers

1 Granny Smith

3 inch Chunk of Ginger

Juice All together and Enjoy this Beautiful Drink!

Wendy Cheek's Papaya TwoFer Juice

2 Oranges

2 Carrots

2 Mangoes 

2 Peaches

1/4 Papaya

1 Sweet Potato

Juice all the above together. Serve and Enjoy!

Makes about 28oz of  fresh juice.

TOMATO-FREE V-8

1 cucumber

1 celery

1 carrot

1 red pepper

10 radishes

3 scallions

half a lime

1 garlic clove 

half bunch of cilantro

Seasoned with pepper, a smidge of cumin, sea salt.

DEBBIE'S HOT SOUP

3 roma tomatoes

2 carrots

2 small celery

handful of spinach

I warmed it right around 100 degrees and added some garlic and onion powder.

PIZZA JUICE

1 small Egg Plant

4 medium tomatoes

4 basil leaves

4 cloves garlic (to taste) Note from Sandi this seems like alot to me

Toppings: Be creative

1 medium green Onion 

1 Red Peppers

2 chili peppers (remove seeds , or leave in for heat)

Juice all together

Hope you enjoy these delicious recipes.

Sandi

What Makes A Nice Balanced Glass OF Juice?

When  I started juicing the first thing I asked in groups was HOW Do I know WHAT TO JUICE? 

I watched "Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead" by Joe Cross and joined his online Community, Join The Reboot.

There are a whole mess of good recipes to follow and weekly meal plans too. BUT I am one of those adventurous gals who is always in the kitchen or in front of my sewing machine making up my own thing, so I knew it would only be a matter of time before I would have to make up my own Juices.

So I had to know WHAT MAKES A Nice Balanced Glass of Juice?

I picked up a couple Juicing Books, got online and read  from some pretty knowledge folks and of course asked lots of questions in the Join the Reboot community as well as the Rebooter Buddies on Facebook.

One of the best books I can recommend is "The Juicing Bible" by Pat Crocker. My hubby gave it to me for my birthday along with Eat to Live and those to books already look like I have owned them for 5 years. (Been less than a month.)

 So the run of thumb for creating good healthy juices is to make your ratio at least 80% vegetable juice to 20% fruit juice. You can always create an all vegetable juice that would be wonderful and if you create all fruit juices now and again that is fine too...Just try not to make a habit of it. The reason being you don't want to have your blood sugar going through the roof and your weight going UP not down. The whole purpose of Juicing is to get HEALTHY so Juice responsibly. 

Did you notice the nice fresh glass of juice at the top of the page?

IT was one of our first Fresh Raw Juices we made. Nice Tasting too. Here is the Recipe

and a Peek at the Beautiful Bountiful that made it up.

 1Cucumber

3 Carrots

5 -6 Large Roma Tomatoes

1` Cup Broccoli

3 Stalks Celery

1 Small Beet 

2 Small Pieces of Cauliflower

When you are creating your juices, pick our the vegetable and fruit combos you want to juice together. Juice them and give them a taste. You can always add to your mixture. to suit your personal taste. Remember NO Recipe is written in stone. It is only a guide line for you to follow.

Use your taste buds and let your body guide you. Have fun and love to hear some of your recipes.

Have a Juicy Day!

~Sandi

Recipes for This Odd Fellow ...Jicama

I am always getting asked about this weird looking thing we have in our Marketplaces. Looks like a coconut but it's not. Around Texas the locals eat it cut up with chili pepper on it. In our house we just juice this mighty tuber called a Jicama.

If you have never seen one before they can be rather odd looking, but let me tell you juiced they can be so great for your body! Jicama is high in carbohydrates in the form of dietary fiber. It is composed of a bout 90% water, it contained on trace amounts of protein and lipids. It's sweet flavor comes from the oligofructose inulin (also called fructo-oligosacuuharide) which is a prebiotic. 

Jicama is HIGH in Vitamins C,A and B, along with Calcium and phosphorus.

Keep in mind when using this vegetable this is a very unique veggie so when eating or juicing it you will need to make sure to *pair* it with a nice and tasty friend. I think it has a slightly vanilla taste so keep that in mind when you pair it up. I have some wonderful ideas for it in the FALL for Thanksgiving. but for now...

Below you will find 2 of my Family's favorite recipes for Jicama Juices. (pictures included).

 Jicama TO GO JUICE

1 Large Jicama (peeled and sliced)
1 1/2 cups black grapes
1 1/2 red grapes
2 stalks celery
2 Large cucumbers

4 Large carrots
6 Large starwberries
2 Granny Smith Apples

1 lime (peeled...you may add some of the peel if you like. I love the peel or zest in my juice.)

JUICE ALL THE ABOVE TOGETHER, STRAIN AND ENJOY NICE AND COLD! 

My Grand Daughter Zoe loves Jicama To Go Juice in her Sippy Cup. She is 8 months old and  loves her fresh juice at Nanna's Tree House.

STRAWBERRY BLUEBERRY JICAMA JUICE

1 JICAMA (peeled and cut into pieces that will fit into your juicer)
1 cup of fresh blueberries ( if you can't find fresh you can use frozen they work fine in your juicer...believe me.) 
6 oz of fresh Strawberries

 Hints for juicing blueberries and other small berries: If you want to juice blueberries just add them with your jicama. Be very careful when you add them they will POP out everywhere. Add them slowly and with some of the jicama in your hand. Place the berries into the chute and quickly add the berries and plunger so that the berries don't POP out. You can do the same thing with frozen berries (in fact I find if they are frozen they juice better).

There are so many things you can do with your fresh juice. Use your imagination. 

You can make a Popsicle. Simply place some of the juice in small solo cups in your freezer until they juice is slushy. Then insert a wooden Popsicle stick so that it stands in the center. Place your cups back into the freezer until they are totally frozen. Remove from freezer when they are hard and run under hot water to loosen or if the cups are paper you can simply peel then away from your frozen Popsicle. ENJOY.

Using a glass baking dish pour your juice into the dish and place into the freezer about an inch deep. Be sure the dish is setting flat. Check the dish at 30 minute intervals and when it reaches the  stage where it is somewhat hard but not totally frozen take a fork and scrap the top layer . You will scrap the enter top of your pan. Continue scraping the juice and removing it to another pan or place it is a dessert glass and into the freezer to serve to that special someone. This makes a wonderful Shaved Fruit Juiced Ice Dessert. 

I served this in a dessert dish as a special treat to my hubby the other night.  Of course I forgot to snap a picture.

I'd love to see or hear about any of your ideas and unique ways to use juice.

Just email me at livingtheshweetlife@gmail.com

Have a Great Juicy Day!

~Sandi