Tuesday, June 07, 2005

juice adventures and police

2 stories from yesterday while I wait for someone to come pick up some guitars from upstairs.
Juice Adventures:
This weekend we bought a juicer we discovered through the buckpasser. It was a splendid deal from a lovely East Indian man who has studied nutrition and health. I got a lower price than he was asking...just barely. I was grabbing for the door handle to leave (as Andy instructed me to do if he didn't go for my lowest price...that was an act of faith) and he said, 'So $80 is your final price. What is it based on?" And I said, "Well, uh, we really don't have very much money." And he said, "Oh, well, if that is the case and you're going to use it, that's ok." Then he shared more about nutrition and some good websites to go to and said in summer we could come by and sit on the porch and talk about juicing. :) So, actually that was the pre-story to the juice adventure story.
Then, yesterday morning, I tried out the juicer. It works really well...it's a 'slick rig' as Rea from Crowsnest would say. I thought I would put various fruits and vegetables through just to see how their juice tasted. I put an apple through - tasted it, yum. Then a carrot which produced a lot of juice - not bad, but not my favorite...I don't think I really liked it to much actually...I think an organic carrot would have tasted better. Brocolli - hardly any juice at all came out. Then I mixed the juices together, thinking this would taste better. Ugh...gross. But I spend 15 min. making the juice and it was made out of good food. I resolved to drink it. Ok, I put a banana in to try and improve the taste...didn't help. My body actually shuddered upon tasting it. I really didn't think it would be that bad...reminded me of when I had wheatgrass juice. So, finally I restored the juice to a drinkable mixture by adding an equal part orange juice. I have resolved not to juice again minus a recipe.
The guitars were just picked up and I will go take a nap, so you'll have to wait on the police story. Talk to you later.

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