Juicer, recipes, etc.

The $99 (on Amazon) Breville juicer is the best thing I've bought in a long time.
We've been juicing every morning.
No longer do the veggies and fruits in my house ever go to waste.
Ever.
Do you know how guilty you feel when you buy some Swiss chard or sweet potatoes and you don't get around to fixing it and one morning you open up the fridge and hang your head in shame for the money and vitamins you've lost?
Yeah.
Me too.

Anyway, we juice anything that won't run away.
It is astounding to me that you can juice ANY vegetable and add a few apples and the resulting juice will taste sweet and delicious.
Joe hates beets.
Joe hates peppers.
Joe hates yams. (So do I.)
Joe hates a lot of things.
Putting them in the juicer gives the nutritional benefit of these things without the taste.


You could NEVER sit down and eat a parsnip, a bunch of kale, a bunch of spinach, three carrots, two apples, and a yam. But you can surely juice it and get all the vitamins from it.

This morning I juiced 2 yams,  2 tomatoes that were starting to look shabby, a large carrot, and 4 small apples. It was delicious, and the pulp was moist.
Not wanting to waste all that fiber, I made a muffin recipe. These are seriously the best muffins I've ever tasted. And they happened by me just going around my kitchen tossing stuff in!

Here's the recipe.


In one bowl, combine:

2 cups whole wheat flour
2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
2 tbsp cinnamon (I like cinnamon. Sue me.)
2 tbsp brown sugar

In another bowl, combine:

2 eggs
1/2 c coconut oil (Note: coconut oil is solid at room temp, like warm shortening. See this site for info on the health benefits of coconut oil.)
1/2 c honey
1 cup greek yogurt
2 tsp vanilla

Now mix the wet/dry ingredients.
Fold in 1/2 c coconut, 1/2 c pumpkin seed meats, and 2 cups of the pulp. Oh yeah, and 1/2 c raisins.

Spray muffin tin.
Fill up each muffin cup, as these muffins don't rise.
Bake 350 degrees for 30 minutes.

Makes about 26 muffins. Unfortunately, muffin tins are generally 12 each, so you might have a little left over.
:(

Alternatively, some diced apples could go in, substitute apple juice for pineapple juice, no coconut, replace pumpkin meats with chopped walnuts --- yum.