Juice For All!

I’ve been into juicing for a while now, but recently Matt has gone a little juice crazy.  We drink a green juice almost every morning, but as of last week we’ve been experimenting with all sorts of combinations. Some of you have been asking for recipes, so I thought it would be helpful to post some of the delicious combinations we’ve come up with.  Also, if you are interested in why juicing is good for you, check out ‘Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead‘ or read Kris Carr’s ‘Crazy Sexy Diet‘.

Note: To make this juice, you will need a juicer.  The Breville Ikon Juice Fountain is a good middle-ground juicer, but depending on your budget there are others that work nicely both more expensive or cheaper.

All these recipes make about 16oz of juice.

Super Green Juice

• 1 cucumber
• 3-4 stalks of celery
• 3-4 carrots
• 2 apples/pears (or 1 of each)
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 lemon or lime
• parsley

Purple Sunrise Juice

• 1/2 head red cabbage
• 1 beet
• 1 apple
• 3-4 carrots
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 lemon

Spicy Green Juice

• 1 green chile pepper
• 1-2 cups kale, chopped
• 3-4 stalks celery
• 2-3 carrots
• 1 green bell pepper
• 1 lemon

Rainbow Juice

• 1/2 head red cabbage
• 2-3 carrots
• 2-3 stalks celery
• 1 green apple
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 lime

Apple Pie Juice

• 1 butternut Squash
• 1 sweet potato
• 2 apples
• cinnamon
• nutmeg

Cherry-Kissed Black Iced Tea

A yogi student served me a version of this tea one day when I went to her for a much needed hair cut.  Arriving exhausted and sweaty from the DC summer heat, it was the perfect refreshing beverage to cool me down.  I experimented with different black teas and found that darjeeling works well.  You can also opt for cranberry juice instead of cherry, but they are both de-lish.

yields approx. 1 pitcher 

Ingredients

• 5 cups of water, boiled
• appropriate amount of black tea for water (3-4 bags or 3-4 tbsp of looseleaf)
• 1-2 cups of tart cherry juice
• 2-3 sprigs of mint

Instructions

Prepare tea in pitcher and cool off in refrigerator.  Once its cold (prior to serving), add cherry juice and mint leaves.

mangia!