Green Juice Day

We are Meri and James, and this is our personal blog documenting the subtle joy of green juicing. We enjoy our daily dose of green juice and use this space to share our love for kale, red chard and other greens that make it into our glass.

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Kale Citrus Green Juice

- A large lemon and a grapefruit together brighten this leafy green juice. We are still adding pears to our juice for a smoother taste. Our Kale Citrus Green Juice recipe for 2 - 3 follows as:

1 large bunch of green leaf kale

1 grapefruit

1 lemon

4 pears

3 - 6 carrots

1 cucumber

Clean and juice the vegetables. Dice the pairs and juice them. Finally peel the citrus fruits and juice them into the mix. Remove any unwanted surface foam and add plenty of ice. Happy juicing!

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Loving The Pear Green Juice

- The name says it all. Thank you pear for making this green juice a smooth and pleasant drinking experience. For additional kale cutting sweetness, you could also add an orange to the mix. Our mix of produce made quite a lot of green juice, about four small glasses total. If you want less juice go down with the number of kale leaves and pears. Our Loving The Pear Green Juice follows as:     •    bunch of lacinato kale     •    bunch of curly kale     •    4 small carrots     •    1 zucchini     •    1 small cucumber     •    1 orange, optional     •    1 lemon     •    4 pears

Start by cleaning the produce. Cut out the stems from the pears. Peel the lemon. Chop all produce into juicer friendly sized pieces. Juice first the green produce, and then follow up with the fruits. Remove any unwanted surface foam. Add crushed ice if available. Here’s to another fresh green juice day!

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Pomelo Green Juice

- Pomelo (also goes with names pummelo, pommelo, or shaddock), a relative to grapefruit but less sour tasting, gives this green juice a nice fresh makeover. We added some ginger and rainbow carrots and otherwise went with the usual green produce. Our recipe for two or three follows as:

1 red kale

1 head of green lettuce

1 bunch of rainbow carrots

1 inch piece of ginger

1 cucumber

1 pomelo

Juice all green produce first, then carrots, ginger, cucumber and finally peeled and diced pomelo. Remove any surface foam if desired, and then add crushed ice. For even more taste of citrus you could add some lemon juice as well. Here's to another committed green juice day!

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Green Chard Green Juice

- Sorry about being out and about for awhile, in fact a year. In the meantime we were blessed with a baby. While green juicing during pregnancy felt like a big ugh, the sunny North Texas spring weather along with a sweet baby in the arms just calls back for the good old habits. So here we go.

Today’s green juice is a blend of chard and kale, mixed with some carrots, green apples, cucumber and lemon juice. Lots of crushed ice in the mix makes the experience even more pleasant. Our Green Chard Green Juice recipe for two follows as:

1 large bunch of green chard

1 kale

3 carrots

2 green apples

1 cucumber

2 lemons

Juice all produce. Add crushed ice if wanted. We did it!

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Green Tuesday

Here's to another great green juice day! This easy to drink green juice features everyday ingredients, from kale and roman lettuce to orange and lemon juice. The recipe for two follows as:

1 kale

1 large roman lettuce

2 carrorts

1/2 cucumber

2 oranges, peeled

1 lemon, peeled

Juice the produce in a juicer in any preferred order. Add ice if available. Works well as a breakfast green juice due to the high concentration of orange juice. Enjoy your day!

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Green Juice Martini

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Classic Green Juice

Spinach, kale, cucumber, apples and a splash of lemon... This green juice has all the basic ingredients that make up a classic green juice. You can see lemon repeated in most of our green juice recipes: this is a personal preference, we just really like how the lemon lifts up the taste. Lime does it well too. If you want to go with a strong citrus fruit taste then try out grapefruit which is guaranteed to downgrade any green taste.

Anyhow, the recipe for our Classic Green Juice for two follows as: 

large bunch of spinach

1 kale

3 apples

1 cucumber

1 lemon, peeled

Juice all vegetables with a juicer. Then juice the apples and juice the peeled lemon. Stir the juice and reduce any unwanted surface foam. Add ice if available and enjoy your classic green juice! 

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What kind of juicer do you use/have any recommendations? I'm new to the world of juicing and looking to get a juicer. Thanks!

Hi! Thank you for your question :-) We use the Breville Dual-disc Juice Extractor, but pretty much these days only use the juice extracting disc, not the pureeing disc... so a model that's just a "juice extractor" would work perfectly well for just juicing. We purchased ours from Williams Sonoma a bit over a year ago. We've really put ours through the ringer and it's stood up, seems high quality construction to us... but I think the biggest thing there to keep it running smoothly is that I clean / scrub it very thoroughly after each juicing. Thanks!

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When Watercress Met Frisee...

This zesty green juice is extremely detoxing with strong digestive aid, thanks to the high amount of watercress and frisee.  The result: let's just say that these plants really do their thing. Please research the use of any of these leafy greens; we are simply documenting our daily green juicing activities, and not giving any dietary advice. This is how our When Watercress Met Frisee... Green Juice was made: 

1 watercress

1 frisee

1 cucumber

1 grapefruit, peeled (replace with 2 oranges if you don't like the taste)

1 lemon, peeled

2 apples

Clean and juice all vegetables. Then juice all fruits. Mix and add ice if available. Makes two glasses.

We’re using a Breville dual-disc juicer setup for juicing.

Enjoy your zesty and very detoxing juice! 

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Red Cabbage & Beet Juice

Red cabbage and beet create a soft tone to this "green juice". The recipe follows as:

1/3 red cabbage

1 beet

3 red apples

1 lemon, peeled

1" of ginger

Juice all produce. Add ice if available. 

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Soft Reboot Green Juice

Here's a nice gentle green juice for a day of recovery and soft reboot. This juice has an old fashioned apple cider taste that hides the kale pretty well. What? Yes, green leafy vegetables are our dear friends but sometimes we just want some distance... The recipe follows as:

a quarter of large red cabbage

6 leaves of kale

3 carrots

3 red apples

1 pear

1 lemon, peeled

Clean the produce and juice all vegetables and fruits. Peel of any unwanted surface foam (apples create quite a lot of foam). Makes two glasses of soft green juice.

Pictured fabric: Marimekko, Finland - Kesätori by Aino-Maija Metsola.

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Green Hope

Personal struggles make you stronger, and relying on daily routines - such as green juicing - is one way of connecting and rooting back to life's small meaningful moments. At the end of the day, any storm will settle. Our Green Hope juice recipe follows as:

1 small kale

Large handful of parsley

2 carrots

1 cucumber

1 yellow beetroot

2 green apples (not pictured)

1 lime, peeled

Clean and juice all produce. Add ice available.  Makes two glasses. Here's to active plans and hope.

Pictured fabric: Marimekko Suomi - Finland, Pia Holm 2010: "KOHTI" (Towards)

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Green Juice Recap!

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Thai Coconut Green Juice

My husband - who doesn't like coconut at all - wanted to call this Nightmare Green Juice... That tells you something about how much the coconut flavor comes through and how the kale seems to intensify the coconut's taste.

Our Thai Coconut Green Juice (or a Nightmare Green Juice) recipe follows as:

10 leaves of kale

1 Thai young coconut, water

30 leaves of mint

1 lime, peeled

Juice the kale and mint. Peel the lime and juice it as well. Crack the Thai young coconut open and poor its clear water into a glass bowl. Mix all liquid and add ice if available. Makes two small glasses. One experience stronger!

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Green Juice Glow

Wheatgrass, spinach, kale, oranges, cucumber, and yellow beetroot. 

Juice wheatgrass in a manual machine or use one package of wheatgrass drink powder.

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Carrot Beet Nightcap

3 carrots

1 beet 

7 leaves of kale

1 grapefruit

1 lime

1 lemon

Here's some much needed detoxing after a normal Saturday night out and about... Makes two glasses.

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Saturday Afternoon Green Juice

Carrots and collard greens... perhaps not the highest rated vegetables on the excitement barometer but both nice and low-key, and most importantly, in season. The recipe for our traditional Saturday Afternoon Green Juice follows as: 

5 carrots

7 collard green leaves

1 cucumber

2 apples

1 cup of cilantro

1 lemon, peeled

Juice all vegetables, and then juice apples and the lemon. Mix and peel of any foam from the surface before serving. Add ice if available. Makes two glasses of green juice.