Some new yummy ones and some more to try

Watermelon Punch

1/2 watermelon without rind

1 lemon

5 oranges

1/2 pineapple, peeled

Cocktail Delicious

2 apples

3 carrots

1 stalk celery

*this was yummy, and the apples plus carrots definitely took away a bit of the carrot taste that I'm not too much a fan of

Sunset Cocktail

2 apples

1 beet

1 orange

3 carrots

*made a really pretty colored juice, but I didn't actually taste this one because there was a beet in it so I figured that I wouldn't like this one very much anyway

Cocktail vigorous

6 carrots

2 oranges

1 apple

1 stalk celery

1 slice lemon

*yummy, and the lemon and oranges took a bit of the edge off of the carrot taste, but still could taste the carrots, although the flavor was much better balanced I think the more different flavors you added to the carrots.

Carrot Apple Orange

3 carrots

1 apple

1 orange

1 inch piece of fresh ginger

*this is my favorite carrot juice. I think that the orange and ginger give it a really nice flavor, and you can hardly taste the carrot in this one. Definite winner in my book.

Sparkling pear aple

2 pears

3 apples

sparkling water to taste

*yummy, but the color is gross looking. Plus, the pears make for a really pulpy juice, so maybe not the best. It was very tasty though

Pineapple kiwi

1/2 pineapple

2 kiwi

*tasted really good and was a very acidic fruit juice. Everyone seemed to like it

Pineapple Juice

1/2 pineapple

*very sweet juice but it pretty much tastes like canned pineapple juice, so was a bit disappointing

Revised Green Juice

1 bunch of kale

1 cucumber

4 apples

*very sweet tasting and almost just tastes like fruit juice that's green. My favorite version of green juice.

Sour Blueberry

Pack blueberries
3 nectarines
1 Lemon
1 carrot

*I don't really like the taste of carrot juice, so this is a nice way to sneak a carrot into sweet juice :-) Tastes very yummy and sour.

Green Peace

1 handful spinach leaves

1 handful fresh parsley

1/2 cup swiss chard

1 celery stalk

1 apple

*I substituted 2 leaves of Kale/Collard Greens for the spinach. The juice came out a really rich green color (deeper green than the normal green mix that we make) so I'm guessing that it had more phytochemicals in it, which is good. I thought that it tasted mostly like celery, but not bad.

C-Blend

2 oranges

1 grapefruit

1 lime

1/2 cup whole cranberries

*Recipe said you can also add honey to sweeten this up, but I drank it plain. It was delicious and tart and the cranberries gave it a little more zing while making the sour not just from the grapefruit. I loved it, and I think this is my new favorite. Although, the guys tried it and said that it was too sour for them.

Vidalia Vigor

1/4 cabbage

1/2 red bell pepper

1/2 vidalia onion

1/3 fresh fennel bulb

*We didn't have onions, so we made it without onions, and the fennel smelled really yummy - like licorice. The juice tasted pretty bland, which to me was a good thing - I was expecting something gross. The strongest flavor in this was the bell pepper. Pretty good, and since it's one of the only reddish juices I think I can handle, might be a good one for me.

Slippery Beet

2 beets

1 clove garlic

1 apple

*Of all the beet recipes that I've tried, I find the beet taste to be the most disguised in this one. I actually can trick myself into drinking this one. :-) You mostly taste garlic. I actually did put in the right amount of garlic this time!

Spiced Carrot

3 carrots

1 spear broccoli

1/2 inch gingerroot

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

*I think I've made this before, but without the broccoli. This time, I thin the gingerroot was fresher (from Reading Terminal Market) so it was more spicy. I'm not sure that I could taste the difference between the broccoli vs the kale/collard greens that I used last time.

Apple Fresh

3 apples

1 cup grapes

1/2 lemon

*SO YUMMY!!!! Reminds me of a summer day. This would probably be a great post-workout juice.

Some more juice

Green Lime Aid

bunch of kale

bunch of collard greens

two apples

one lime

cucumber

2 stalks of celery

*this was pretty good. Very full flavored and you could taste the lime more than anything.

Grape Fruit

2 cups of grapes

1 grapefruit

*pretty good. The grapes really do a good job of cutting the tartness from the grapefruit - great for people who want to drink grapefruit juice but don't like the sour in it.

Carrot Allium

3 carrots

3 leaves of collard greens

1 clove garlic

1/2 lemon

1 teaspoon of crushed red pepper

*this tastes like salsa. I put in a bulb (oops) of garlic when I made it last time instead of a clove so it was too spicy. I'll have to try to make this again, only with the proper amounts of stuff.

5 yummy recipies

Orange Zinger

1 orange

3 carrots

1/2 inch ginger root

1 apple

*This is pretty tasty, and the orange, apple, and ginger really blend together to reduce the taste of the carrots. The first day, I made it with only a little ginger, and the second day with more ginger to give it more spice. both ways were really good, but I think that leaving the recipe as is was a better flavor combination.

Hot Spice Carrots

4 carrots

1 handful spinach leaves

1 apple

1/2 inch ginger root

1/2 tsp ground cinnamon

*THIS IS DELICIOUS!! It actually tastes like chai. The original recipe had cardamom seeds in it, but I don't have those just lying around, so skipped it. Also, the second time I made it, the spinach wasn't very juicy, so I switched it out for 3-4 leaves of kale/collard greens. Still tastes delicious!

Grapefruit

1 orange

2 grapefruits

1 lemon

*My favorite so far - it tastes like a warhead - sour and delicious! The recipe says you can also add some honey to sweeten it up a bit if needed, but I like it sour!

Orange Sunrise

2 oranges

2 kiwifruits

1 papaya, seeded

1 carrot

*I haven't actually tried this yet. I was distracted with making my own variation (below)

Orange-Kiwi

2 oranges

3 kiwifruits

*Really yummy and reminded me of that pink Snapple flavor with kiwi in it. Citrus-ey but with a bit of a kick at the end from the Kiwi.

Beet

2 beets

2 carrots

2 apples

*Well, you can tell that there are beets in there, since I can taste the "dirt" taste of beets, but the apples and carrots certainly go a long way to mask the taste of the beets.

Also, after reading a forum yesterday about what to do with the pulp from the juicer (I would really like to compost it, but it's way too cold out right now - I'll start doing that in the spring) I saved some from the carrots and Kale I juiced and mixed it in with some ground beef and rice for the dogs and they loved it!

Background

I should start out by saying that my mom had a brief stint with juicing about 10 years ago, and after hearing about her rant and rave about how great it was, I tried some, and it was DISGUSTING!!!!! I decided that no nutritional value was good enough for me to subject myself to such torture. I'd rather take vitamins or die of a nutrient deficiency instead.

Fast forward 10 years, and my housemate has been juicing for a while and raving about the benefits. I refused to try it, but a few months later, relented and had a shot of this green juice that he was making. . . it was not the best thing ever, but palatable (I had already tried wheatgrass juice and it tasted like that) so the following week, I did a 3 oz serving, and then the week after, I tried a full glass.

I had about a glass of the green juice every day for a week and was really surprised that my energy level seemed to go up (apparently because of the B vitamins in the kale and collard greens) and my skin started clearing up! As a 30 year old, I was wondering when my acne would go away - I feel like I'm way too old for acne anyway!

That was last week - this week, he got "The Juicing Bible" which can be purchased on overstock for $15 (http://www.overstock.com/Books-Movies-Music-Games/The-Juicing-Bible/2874908/product.html?cid=202290&kid=9553000357392&track=pspla&kw={keyword}&adtype=pla) and we tried out a few recipes! I figured I'll chronicle our experiments here for my personal notes as well as for the benefit of anyone who is interested in trying out new juice experiments!