Green Goddess Juice

Let me start by saying that my husband is the usual juicer in our little family of two. I’m not going to lie, our juicer intimidates me just a little bit. This is probably because I happen to be one of the most paranoid people in the world and I also possess a ridiculously overactive imagination, which leads to weird fears like what if my finger accidentally slips into the spinning grinding loud piece of the juicer? What if I drop the apple in wrong and it shoots back out and takes out my eye? Seriously. These are the things I think about. For the record, I blame the Final Destination movies.

But anyway. I needed to make juice the other morning because I wanted to use the leftover vegetable pulp (you know, the stuff you normally throw away after you juice out all the good stuff? I feel like it’s such a waste to just toss it!) to test a batch of turkey veggie meatballs and Kevin was unfortunately already at work, so I was on my own. I’m happy to announce that I survived the ordeal with all digits (and eyeballs) intact, although I did make a pretty spectacular mess out of the kitchen when it was all said and done. And I ended up with a pretty tasty batch of juice to boot!

My body has been in desperate need of some nutrients lately (probably to counteract the beer/pizza/cheese/peanut butter mousse binge I recently indulged in) so I focused on a lot of green in this juice. It’s a super nutritious blend of spinach, kale, parsely, cucumber, celery, carrot, apple, lime, and ginger.

I would write a long paragraph on the many benefits of each of the fruits and vegetables included in this juice but I’m feeling sort of lazy and all you really need to do is google “benefits of green juice” to find a plethora of websites that will go into all the juicy details – pun intended! 😉

Green Goddess Juice

serves one, easily adapted

Ingredients:

(all to taste)

– 3 cups spinach leaves

– 4-5 stalks kale

– 3 stalks celery

– 1/2 cucumber

– 1 bunch parsely

– 4 medium carrots

– 1 lime

– 1 medium apple

– 1 knob ginger

Instructions

Add all ingredients to juicer and enjoy!

And all that leftover vegetable pulp you have once you’re finished juicing? Just wait – I’ve got something for you! Stay tuned!