Even though the guy on the video puts whole carrots, if you wind up buying this juicer, take the extra few minutes and chop the veggies and fruit into one inch pieces. You’ll get the most juice that way (I tried both ways) and it’s gentler on the machine.

You’ve got to alternate soft and hard, also.

Roll up leafy veggies as he says. With the mesclun we’ve been rolling it, a messy roll, but it works.

Oh, and with this juicer, if you use cold produce, you get cold juice, not warm-ish like with regular juicers.

I hope you’ll feel better tomorrow.

Gotta go to bed.

XO

Wow Auburn! I want to dedicate an entry to juicers but I think you just sold me. I wish I hadn’t just gotten the kitchenaid meat grinder attachment because I could have put that cost toward this mixer. However, with all this bread making my kitchenaid is starting to slow down in it’s old age so it would be nice to have a backup plan.

When I get that entry up I’ll move your comment over to it where it’s more pertinent. I’ve tried juicing things like cabbage, parsley and spinach in my juicer and it just doesn’t cut it. We take juice plus as our nutritional supplement which is awesome but spendy. I just may make an exception to my local rule if I could actually get leafy green juice on a daily basis! Or I’ll take out the back lawn and pant a green field of juicing veggies.

I wrote a very long answer to your question, two days ago. I can see it (the 9th comment under Dark Days Week but it says “your comment is awaiting moderation” so it probably wound up in your spam filter because it includes a few links?

Yesterday I tried a rice bread recipe I found online, won’t include the link here now, don’t want this comment to get lost, but the bread turned out really bad. I was going to run it by you before making it because it just sounded weird but I thought you were away/busy so I went ahead and tried it. Bleh. ;[

I had asked on another entry which juicer you ended up getting and where you got it from – I’m just starting to research new juicers since the centrigal juicer is jamming up with all the apples trying to make cider. Perhaps a press is in my future, or a different juicer.

I’m also organizing seeds and planning for the spring garden. I can’t wait!

I’m hoping to post a bunch of recipes tonight. How are you? I tried some potato starch in my bread today since I’m still suspicious of the vital gluten but I’m not at all impressed.

KFG I was getting worried no one had commented on that. Hoping I hadn’t offended a liver lover. I still have pretty vivid memories of either refusing to eat dinner and then being hungry all night or being forced to sit at the table until I finished and I vowed never to inflict that upon my kids. I ask that they take one no thank you bite and bribe them heavily but I never force anyone to eat my cooking.

I absolutely detest liver … so as soon as I read that you were preparing it I thought ‘YUCK”… and then when I read on some more and saw your response to the taste test … I bust out laughing! That was good of you to invoke dinner menu plan B and not put your family through that.