First 3 days of being Vegan..oh wait, I had cupcakes...

So, why have we decided to go Vegan? Well, our doctor asked us to. Both of us, despite all the juice we are drinking have high cholesterol.  Too much cheese, I think. Neither one of us would like to take medication, so we are conducting an experiment. We are going (mostly) Vegan for at least 3 months. Saturdays will still be "Eat what ever the fuck you want to" days.

We recently discovered roasting vegetables. I saw a recipe on Pinterest for the "best broccoli you will ever have in your life". It's true. It is really good broccoli!

Take your fresh broccoli and toss it with olive oil, salt and pepper. Then, pop it in the oven on 350 for 15 minutes. Then broil it on high for another 5 minutes. = AWESOME.

Now we do all the veggies that way. With corn, we use  frozen. Toss it with the olive oil, salt and pepper and then put it in the oven for the 5 minutes of broil with the other veggies.

This is yesterday's dinner. All the veggies were cooked in the same fashion and the whole thing took about 20 minutes to make. Corn, cauliflower, broccoli, and surprise, surprise: brussel sprouts. Until this dish, I had never ever had any brussel sprouts that tasted good. 

Tonight, we had a similar dinner, but with no corn. Chris made some really delicious potato slices. Chris has been 100% vegan for these first 3 days. I had some cupcakes that were not vegan today, but otherwise I'm doing good too. We even found a dessert that isn't made with eggs or butter or milk: Biscoff cookies. Yum!

Weak Sauce and Crack Cocaine

Here's a quickie. 

We were out of cucumbers, but I wanted to make a juice with the kale because Chris likes the green juices. I also wanted to make sure that I used up the limes we have. Limes are as precious as crack cocaine right now! For real! Look it up, the Mexican Mafia are high-jacking lime trucks and extorting lime growers. I didn't want anyone who had died for my limes, to die in vain, so I feel the need to use them up before they get wonky. I did some research on the internet and found this recipe.   

I'm calling it "Weak Sauce." It has a pleasant flavor, but with no zing! 

It tastes like weak apple juice, or weak orange juice. 

Weak Sauce

2 Granny Smith Apples

2 Oranges

1 Lime

1 big hunk of Kale

2 Celery Stalks

Here it is in all it's glory: Weak Sauce!

I think next time, I will add in some ginger to get that "pop" of flavor.

Let me tell you about something terrible

So, we have this giant container of peeled garlic. 

 I looked up some juicing recipes with garlic in them. 

I found this one on the internet that got good reviews. 

It called for 1 apple, 1 garlic and 2 celery and 2 carrots. When I opened up the garlic container, the smell was so strong, I thought that I should add more carrots and another apple. Just to be safe.

I put it all through the juicier, and even though there was only one clove in there, the smell was really strong. The color was fairly pleasing.

I took the glass to Chris, and had him try it first. I wished that I had taken a picture of his expression, because I could tell that the juice was terrifyingly awful. 

I took a sip...oh loorrrrdy jeaaaaassuuuuuuussssss! It was awful. Chris had drank about 1/4 of his, and told me that I had to drink at least as much of mine to be fair. So I did. It was painful. Then Chris said, "what if I drink all of it". I said, "well, I guess I will too." 

Can you believe it, he drank the whole thing. 

I started in on mine, and then said..."I have to go back to work now!" hahaha...

I drank about 1/2 and put the rest down the drain. 

I had the taste of garlic in my mouth and on my breath for hours and hours afterwards. Don't get me wrong, I love garlic. But, juicing it was a very bad idea. 

Fuck You Garlic

2 Days, 3 new juices

Thanks to my sister, we have a new "Juicing recipes" book. 

We tried 3 new juices and they are all delicious.

I went a local farmer who has strawberries and picked up a big bucket of them. Now what? 

How about some "Sweet & Spicy Citrus" juice? 

5 Carrots

1 Orange

1/3 cup of Strawberries. I didn't measure, I just threw a bunch in

1 Lemon

a hunk of Ginger

Will it be good? Heck yeah it will! I really enjoyed this one we had for breakfast. According to the juicing book it is "Exceptionally rich in vitamin A and vitamin C"

 We still had strawberries left over, so this morning we had "Refreshing Strawberry Juice"

2 cups Strawberries; or just throw in what you have left

1 Cucumber

1/4 Lemon 

I didn't think that would be enough juice for the both of us, so I added in a pear and the whole lemon.

It was good and refreshing! I think the pear might have toned down the lemon taste a bit. But, we both liked it. Pig doesn't look too thrilled though. 

"Packed with ellagic acid, a phytonutrient that helps fight infflammation and cancer-causing cell damage", according to the juicing book. 

 For lunch we tried the "Tangerine Ginger Sipper". Except we didn't have tangerines, so I substituted an orange and a few clementines. 

1 "Tangerine"

1 Pear (or 2 for more juice)

1/4 Lemon (or a whole one because they taste good)

1/2 inch fresh ginger

Pig is much more excited about this one! According to the juicing book it is "A thirst-quenching combination of sweet and tart". We liked it!

Yes! We are still juicing!

Yes, we are still juicing! I haven't posted in over a month though. Mostly because we haven't tried anything new. We have been drinking a lot of the "mean green" for lunch, and our usual orange juice mix for breakfast. We have snuck in some beets and purple cabbage here and there too. I looked up a new recipe for lunch today. I don't remember what the name of it was, nor from which website I got it from. We will just call it "Delicious Juice"

This juice is for 2 servings.

2 Apples

2 Oranges

1 Cucumber

3 Stalks Celery

1 Lemon

It looks like this when you make it.

And like this, once you stir it up. 

It smelled good....and tasted good! We are going to try the same combo but add in kale to make it even more healthy. I'll let you know how it goes. 

How many fruits and vegetables were in your lunch today?

Look at this picture. This is our lunch for today. So many fruits and vegetables! 

How many did you get with your lunch today? 

We had the usual "mean green" juice for lunch and I made a dessert juice to go with it, which tasted...okay, not bad. Here is the dessert juice recipe:

Blueberry Beet Juice

1 beet with beet greens

1 cucumber

1 apple

4 tangerines

1 hunk of ginger root

Total fruits and veggies during lunch for Chris and I:

1 bunch of kale

1 beet and beet greens

2 stalks celery

4 apples

2 cucumbers

4 tangerines 

2 cups of blueberries

1 lemon

1 big hunk of ginger root

Here is our lunch. Total time to prep, prepare and clean was 30 minutes.

Here is a tip for new juicers: if you are using a citrus fruit, like lemon or oranges, use a vegetable peeler to get the skin off. It is much easier and faster than trying to peel the things. 

It tastes like dirt...IT TASTES LIKE DIRT!

I went to Kroger to get some kale to make our usual Mean-Green Juice. Kroger was out of kale so, I decided to get some purple cabbage and make the last juice I posted about 

"The things nightmares are made of." 

I made it for breakfast but Chris didn't like it much this time. I looked up some other recipes and found one that was similar but with spinach and ginger. Here is an appetizing picture of the ingredients. 

Purple Cabbage

Beet

Lemon

3 Apples

some Carrots

Spinach

Ginger

It turned out pretty, but as Chris said "It tastes like dirt...IT TASTES LIKE DIRT!" 

I don't recommend this recipe.