Juicing is very popular, but I’m not really very keen on juice of any kind, it’s something we don’t have at home but we do eat masses of vegetables and perhaps not quite as much fruit. I can understand the fruit juices and the combinations of different fruit to make drinks, but vegetable juices? That really doesn’t appeal at all to me. A friend mentioned a juice made with red cabbage and pears… eating red cabbage and pears in a salad with a zingy ginger dressing sounds yummy… in fact I might try that!
Another friend of ours has a green drink every morning which she says is wonderful, energising, revitalising… I’m not sure I could, not first thing in the morning. I’m not sure why juicing fruit and vegetables is better than just eating them; I love salad and make it with all sorts of different things including raw root vegetables, fruit (dried and fresh), nuts, seeds… anything which comes to hand. I wouldn’t like to put it all into a blender and then drink the results.
I don’t like gazpacho which I guess is a similar idea, vegetables blended to make a drinkable dish, there is a red version and I found a recipe which had these ingredients :
- 10 oz of bread
- 21 oz. of tomato
- 2 cloves of garlic
- 2 onions
- 2 red and green peppers
- 1 cucumber
- 7 tablespoons of oil
- 2 tablespoons of vinegar
- 1 ½ tablespoon of water
- Cumin
http://www.spain-recipes.com/gazpacho.html
… and there is a green version:
- 4 oz lettuce leaves, chopped
- 4 oz spinach
- 3 spring onions, diced
- 1 medium cucumber, peeled and diced
- 1 tablespoon chopped parsley
- 4 fl. oz sour cream, plus extra to garnish
- 4 fl. oz mayonnaise
- 16 fl. oz chicken broth
- 1 teaspoon chopped fresh mint leaves
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon white pepper
http://www.spain-recipes.com/green-gazpacho.html
Lois Elsden 