January what a crazy month, actually a REALLY long month. As most people want to start the year on a healthy kick I bought a juicer. Goal was to make me eat more vegetables. I was nervous about this juicer, I think I’ve been scared of the cleaning juicer part. I bought a Korean brand called Hurom, it’s this one. So far I really love it, super easy to use and clean. You do have to chop up your produce to smaller bits to put in the shoot, but I really don’t mind this. Be warned fibrous veg, like stems, celery, ginger you may have to stop and clean out the filter so it doesn’t block the pulp from coming out. This is a juicer problem across the board. Chopping up the veg in smaller pieces does give me a chance to take inventory and deternine my own concoctions. As most appliances come with recipe books this is a great way to get inspired on what to make. The best part is I’m eating more vegetables. Which was the goal.
We also learned that to yield one cup of juice of any kind you need A LOT of fruit and veg. We’ve been ordering from local grocery story for pick-up, trying to avoid going in the store. However, knowing I need more produce we started ordering from Misfits Market. Our first box arrived this week, we just ordered the small one. What we received and chose was the following: swiss chard, russett potatoes, sweet potatoes, jalapenos, roma tomatoes, carrots, ginger, cabbage, oranges, and pears. We’ve used just about it all for soaps, juices, and salsa. Super happy about our uptick on taking in more vegetables and fruit. My juice combos have been delicious, beets, wheat grass and pears; apples, carrots, cabbage, and ginger. You don’t need much ginger, because it turns super spicy with too much ginger. Trust me.
As for swiss chard I decided to make a Torta. My neighbor in Santa Monica made an amazing one, I searched online for a good recipe and just decided to text her and ask for hers. Of course it’s from a saved Saveur Magazine probably from the 90’s. This was very easy to make and delicious. I’m not a huge onion or feta fan, so I just put less of it in. Would be fun to maybe swap out feta for ricotta. Copy of the recipe image below along with a few of my pictures.
