Gross Green Juice

Maybe the title of this post will deter you from drinking this, or maybe you'll just want to try it and see.

I got this recipe off of Peanut Butter Finger's website - it's her Go-To Green Smoothie recipe, and I decided to try it out.

• 2 large handfuls fresh kale
• 1 large handful fresh spinach 
• 1 apple, chopped with seeds and stem removed (skin remains)
• Juice of one lemon 
• 1/2 cucumber, chopped (skin remains)
• 1 celery stalk, chopped 
• A few sprinkles of ground ginger
• 1 cup cold water

Changes to the recipe: It calls for fresh ginger, but I only had ground, so I added a few sprinkles. I also didn't have just kale or just spinach (I bought a bag of spinach AND kale) so I just grabbed 3 big handfuls.

First, I chopped the apple, cucumber, and celery and put it at the bottom of my blender. (This was probably a mistake- I should have put the leaves in first. Now that I look at it, the way the recipe was written was probably the order in which the ingredients should be placed in the blender. Whoops!!)

Next, I grabbed the three handfuls of spinach/kale, and mashed them down so they would fit into the blender. I'm thinking maybe I grabbed too many leafy greens. 

 Then, I squeezed the lemon juice on top of all of it, and added 1 cup of cold water (you can see everything has a sheen of liquid over it now).

Then, I blended it.

After I halfway blended it, I added the ginger. Unclear if this made any difference or not.

This yielded two large cups of green juice... probably more than I would ever want in my life. It tasted quite bitter, but maybe that's what happens when you juice a bunch of kale and spinach.

Cheers!

Your favorite green juice?

Admission Wednesday: "Diets" and Side-view Mirrors

I admit... My old roommate's wedding invitation arrived yesterday (she is coincidentally having her wedding almost exactly 1 month before mine) and I almost cried from the beauty of it. The stationary was exquisite, the thick paper folded into thirds with little pockets and an intricate pattern on the outside. I really can't wait for her wedding weekend. It made me feel a little ashamed of my invitations, though: I plan on hand-writing them (nightmare) and attempted to use as little paper/postage as possible, so we're having people e-mail us their RSVPs. Is that tacky? I hope not.

I admit... I think green juice is disgusting.

I admit... I'm cooking/home-making things more often, and while I do feel more healthy, really all it does is make me do dishes more often.

Homemade granola bars

I admit... Sometimes, I really don't like it when it's sunny here. 2 reasons: A) Usually that means it's much, much colder than usual. B) I feel like the sun is mocking me somehow for staying inside. Like, because it's sunny, I should be spending as much time outside as I can. But sometimes you just want to stay inside and be warm and comfy, you know?? (Related: my hands are freezing right now typing this.)

I admit... I had a great time on Superbowl Sunday (though I ate a little too much), but the game wasn't really that exciting. I mean, yeah, we were winning, but within 12 seconds of the game starting. It was gravy from there. It wasn't exactly a nail-biter like the NFC Championship game.

Also you can tell how we're big Seahawks fans because of all the merchandise we own... or not. Whoops. Also you wouldn't catch me dead at that parade today - not only do I not live in Seattle (I'm across the lake in Bellevue) and would have to battle the thousands of people (I've heard that half a million are going to show up??) who are also trying to get down there - but being outside today (it's 27 degrees right now) is just not on my to-do list today. Sorry Seahawks. I love you guys.. but no.

I admit... My diet is not going well. I was wayyyy too happy when Yogurtland had free yogurt and toppings on Monday. (Now can you get a picture of what my eating has been like this past week??) At least it was a "small" container??

A container used as a lid

YUM

 I admit... Sometimes I'm a bad driver. But at least only to myself. Meaning, parking garages are my enemy - specifically ones that have those giant cement pillars so close to all the spaces. So, here's the story: I was pulling into a space, and I was too close to the giant cement pillar, and it started to scrape across the right side of my car. So I panicked, decided to straighten out, backed out - and BANG. The giant cement pillar whacked my side view mirror almost clean off. Damnit! Thankfully, only the mirror part was detached from the car, not the whole thing. So I decided to be crafty and fix it like this:

Ta-Da!

Any admissions for today?

Previous Admission Wednesdays:

January 29: Weights On and Off My Shoulders
January 22: Yoga and A Bunch of Wedding Feelings
January 15: Yoga and Pain