Last Christmas I gave my husband a Champion juicer. I was not at all interested in juicing, but he wanted one, mostly for the health benefits. There was no way I was going to buy a brand-new one and pay full price, especially since I really didn't think we would use it much. So I went on Ebay and found a lightly-used one for a pretty good price.
He was pleased with it and it has been a good juicer but, sure enough...we haven't used it a lot. When life gets busy, you just don't have time for juicing. However, this week, a friend called me with a question about her juicer. She just recently got one and was having trouble putting it together.
So that inspired me to get ours out even though I had NEVER used ours. I figured out how to put it together (with a phone call to my husband) and then I decided to juice some apples and carrots. I am not that fond of carrot juice but I made some for my husband (without the parsley!)
Then this same friend brought over some windfall apples from her trees and I decided to make apple juice. They were Jonathan apples so the juice was a little tart. I added a little honey plus a few Red Delicious apples from my parents' trees. It was not quite the same as the apple cider that you buy but still pretty good. The children were fighting over it when I served it at dinner so I guess I'll take that as a good sign! It was a little foamy so I removed some of it and then stirred it up a little.
Juicing apples this way takes a little time. But when I recruited my children to help me, it went a lot faster. The whole juicing business reminded me of a time about 20 years ago when we were living in Wisconsin. We visited a U-Pick apple orchard and we made apple cider using their windfall apples and apple press. The apple cider was SO delicious and I had room in my freezer to freeze a few gallons. It's a happy memory.
Anyway, it's a fun way to celebrate fall and use up apples that might not get used otherwise. Now I have a lot of applesauce-making in my future...
He was pleased with it and it has been a good juicer but, sure enough...we haven't used it a lot. When life gets busy, you just don't have time for juicing. However, this week, a friend called me with a question about her juicer. She just recently got one and was having trouble putting it together.
So that inspired me to get ours out even though I had NEVER used ours. I figured out how to put it together (with a phone call to my husband) and then I decided to juice some apples and carrots. I am not that fond of carrot juice but I made some for my husband (without the parsley!)
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| Yum? It's an acquired taste, I think. |
Then this same friend brought over some windfall apples from her trees and I decided to make apple juice. They were Jonathan apples so the juice was a little tart. I added a little honey plus a few Red Delicious apples from my parents' trees. It was not quite the same as the apple cider that you buy but still pretty good. The children were fighting over it when I served it at dinner so I guess I'll take that as a good sign! It was a little foamy so I removed some of it and then stirred it up a little.
Juicing apples this way takes a little time. But when I recruited my children to help me, it went a lot faster. The whole juicing business reminded me of a time about 20 years ago when we were living in Wisconsin. We visited a U-Pick apple orchard and we made apple cider using their windfall apples and apple press. The apple cider was SO delicious and I had room in my freezer to freeze a few gallons. It's a happy memory.
Anyway, it's a fun way to celebrate fall and use up apples that might not get used otherwise. Now I have a lot of applesauce-making in my future...
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