Category — juice

Pear, apple, grape, celery juice

This one was mostly pear and apple with a healthy dose of grapes and 2 celery stalks. It was pretty thick with a strange yellowish colour but man was it good. Possibly my best juice yet.

Ingredients:
3 large Bartlet pears
3 small Cox orange pippin apples
2 big handfuls of grapes (very exact, I know)
2 stalks of celery

grape, pear, carrot, apple, celery juice

Recently we bought a juicer. We did lots of research into the features we wanted and models that were available and decided to drop a little extra cash and get a good one, well… middle of the range anyway. The Breville juicers all seemed to get rave reviews, even the lower end ones. They are quiet, good at getting the most out of the fruit and seemed to be well made. We ended up buying the Ikon 5 speed juicer and haven’t been disappointed. One of the handiest features is the large feed tube… we don’t even have to cut apples or pears!

So far we’ve juiced a half dozen or so times and here is how we feel about the ingredients we’ve used so far:

• Carrot – yummy in moderation
• Apple – fresh apple juice is so much better than store bought and makes you wonder why the stuff at the store is so light coloured
• Pear – delicious! – it’s really like drinking a pear and really thick (Chris says moderation is key)
• Celery – can make juice taste bitter so we limit to 1 or 2 stalks depending on the quantity of juice we’re making
• Grape – super sweet, almost too sweet so a little goes a long way
• Mango – great taste, but a pain to prepare

The photos are of our most recent juice combo, which was grape, carrot, pear, apple, celery. It was delicious and we loved it. We went light on the grape & celery, moderate on the carrot, and heavy on the pear & apple.