Tag Archive: apples

The joys of juice for breakfast

This is what I juiced for breakfast this morning: an entire head of romaine, a lemon, two small apples, four stalks of celery, and a chunk of ginger. I’ve been having this (or a slight variation) most mornings since I got my juicer, and I’ve noticed a few things changing. My taste for vegetables has…

The Breville Juice Fountain: changing my life since, well, yesterday.

Meet my new baby. I have a Champion juicer, but it doesn’t juice greens, and ever since I read Natalia Rose‘s book, The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss, I’ve wanted a juicer that can juice greens effectively. So I’m selling the Champion, and the Breville has…

Tweaking the Kale Smoothie

A lot of people taste the smoothies I make and think they taste too “green”. I can handle the flavor because I’ve gotten used to it over time. But there are ways to tweak it: Make sure your fruit is very ripe. Maybe even overripe. You can toss some pretty funky bananas into those things,…

Kale smoothies FTW

I know what you’re thinking. Believe me, I do. If someone told me ten years ago that I’d someday be enjoying smoothies made from kale, I’d have told them they were a couple bulbs short of a box. But here it is, in all its considerable glory: Hollie’s Favorite Kale Smoothie 3 C cold water…