141 Cold War

Backstory: After the Apple Cleanser my throat started to hurt. I assumed it was of those wonderful detox properties inherent to cleanses. In addition to having a few friends who do various other detoxes, I've done the Master Cleanse for a few days in the past and have read up a lot on juice fasts: one common occurrence is for people to experience headaches and a general sense of pseudo-illness as the toxins are being released from the body. The sore throat, I thought nothing of it. The next day it was still around and this morning I woke up sounding not my best with what felt suspiciously like dripping sinuses.
I had thought of doing a fun juice with all my ingredients possibly something with the pineapple (though two of my oranges were eaten already along with who knows what else). Instead I look to the index to see what's good for a cold. I end up on Cold War as I have the ingredients and it sounds pretty good.

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: I love oranges, I love carrot juice and I often eat garlic when I'm sick and have learned to enjoy it. Usually sliced up cloves on a bread slathered with butter: it's one of those things I love to hate but I really love it in this masochistic way.

Ingredients:
4 carrots
1 orange (I peeled it and juiced it with the pith instead of the squeezing method)
1/2 inch (1 cm) ginger root
2 cloves garlic

Thoughts After Tasting: O_o
The smell of the ginger and garlic was a bit overwhelming at first. It's taking me a bit of time to get through one glass and I still have another waiting for me. It seems to taste better as time goes on; that or my taste buds are not taking note of them anymore and the orange is coming through a bit. Not very frothy which is nice. I think I'll stick to making this juice when I'm sick.

Natalie Writes:

"If your chest is feeling congested, you could add half an onion."

I didn't. I'm glad I made that choice. Perhaps in the future I might do that. Thankfully my chest isn't really congested and I fear the onion would have been a bit too much for a first go with this.

Cleaning: Nothing really to note. The filter seemed a bit more clogged (possibly the ginger or garlic?) though the rest was especially easy to clean and there was not much leftover pulp.

Star Rating: 3/5

Notes: Pulp/Froth settles on the bottom very THICK toward the bottom of the glass.

026 Parsnapple

Backstory: I didn't make it into the grocery store to pick up ingredients for some juices that sparked my interest so at home, after pulling out some more carrots and apples to make the Apple Basic again I noticed there was some liquid spilled in my fridge. I had to take everything out of the crisper in order to wash and wipe it down and this led me to an inventory of the veggies that were in there. I was actually enthralled to see 2 large bags of carrots my parents must have bought recently after seeing my invigorated approach to juicing; a variety of standard things like garlic and lemons was also in there along with a bag of parsnips. I figured with this bounty I wasn't going to settle for some basic carrot juice, oh no! Yet after checking the handy indexes in the back by ingredient I found that most of the juices (that looked appealing; note - not the parsnip) required some other third or fourth ingredient I didn't have.
After getting it into my mind that I wanted to try something different I couldn't deny what was in front of me:
a bag of wet parsnips that I would have to find another bag for anyway
and
it couldn't really be that bad, right?

Initial Thoughts Before Tasting: Parsnips! EEK. Knowing me, this is going to be my knack of picking the worst tasting thing in The Book. actually can't recall eating a parsnip aside from them being one of those veggies I avoid in soup.

Ingredients:
3 apples
2 parsnips
sprinkling of grated nutmeg

Thoughts After Tasting: Expecting the worst, I was unimaginably satisfied. Toned the apples down, which I usually find tart on their own. I could see this becoming a regular juice especially as a refreshing drink in the summer. Kind of reminds me of a piña colada with the froth and colouring.
Though it left a parsnip-y aftertaste that I didn't notice for a while. Not enough to discourage me from drinking this one again.

Natalie Writes:

"I certainly turned my nose up when I first heard of the concept of juicing a parsnip, but actually, it's deliciously sweet."

Check and check.

"Blend it with a sharp apple variety."

I took what was in the fruit basket, not my favourite apple to eat: 3 of those red and green ones that are white and tart (with missing labels.)

"You can leave out the nutmeg if you don't feel like shaking it all up, otherwise it'll just sit on top."

I didn't want to bother with the nutmeg. Figured I'd taste my first parsnip related juice as it comes out of the juicer.

Cleaning: It was surprisingly easy to clean/wash the juicer. Much easier than carrot. I didn't expect that at all.

Star Rating: 3/5

Notes: I left a glass of it in the fridge to let one of my parents taste it but I decided to take my vitamins with it later. It was a bit too ... thick after. Perhaps it would have been better had I allowed it to attain room temperature. The only thought I really had was that didn't want to drink a cold juice again. If possible, fresh only.