Brace yourself. This juice recipe is going to make you want to go out and buy a juicer.
So I bought three baskets of strawberries on Saturday at the Farmer’s Market. I’m usually really good about eating them on the first day but then I subsequently forget about them, they go bad, and I throw the remainder out. I know, I should be condemned for berry neglect. Luckily for these berries, I noticed them on my counter tonight as I set about making my green juice for tomorrow morning.
One more day and these berries would have been goners.
But not tonight. Tonight, rather than being dumped into the compost, they had the honor of having their berry blood squeezed out in my beautiful Omega juicer. Such a more noble way to end one’s life, no?
Berries sans hair and ready for the juicer. Notice how happy they look.
Strawberry Green Juice
One basket of strawberries
2 large cucumbers
1 bunch of kale (I used green curly kale)
2 lemons
2 apples
Put everything in the juicer and strain any remaining pulp. Enjoy!
Strawberry blood oozing out
Pretty rainbow of colors (soon to turn into a muddy green juice)
I bought these cute jars with handles at the market too!
Optional: I also bought a tray of wheatgrass at the market. Trays of wheatgrass are super easy to keep at home (just leave them on your kitchen counter and snip away everytime you need some wheatgrass juice! No need to water or maintain) and are pretty cheap (I buy mine for $10 a tray). Add a little wheatgrass to the Strawberry Green Juice recipe above for an added kick of chlorophyll.
haha i’m so guilty of berry neglect. i just get lazy and don’t feel like washing them sometimes. i’m going to make this juice tomo! btw, how do you like your omega juicer? is it hard to clean? my grandparents had one and i remember the opening being so small that you had to chop up your products into really small pieces. is this an issue for you too?
where do you get the wheat grass tray? Which farmers market? … im still waiting for my juicer to arrive-sigh- .. cant wait to make this…can your juicer make wheat grass shots?
Hey Cemile! I get mine at the Temescal farmer’s market on Sundays. It’s so great – you can just keep one tray at home and wait for it to grow back (pretty quickly, in fact). Which juicer did you order?
how do you take care of it? do you water it? if so how often?…
I got the Omega Vert 350HD and it is out of stock everywhere. Hopefully 1st week of may, i can start juicing! What do you think of the green juices (30 cal.0nes)@Whole Foods?..=)
The trays don’t need watering but they do tend to die after 5-6 days so you have to use it quickly. Still such a better deal than getting your wheatgrass from a juice bar! You can buy little wheatgrass juicers online for like $50 too (if you don’t have a juicer).
Not sure which green juices you’re talking about @WF? Are they the ones in the bottles? If so, they’re usually flash pasteurized so no good (all good enzymes were killed in the pasteurization process).