Comparing juicers

Philips HR1861

Coway JP-11

I have used a Philips hr1861 juicer since January.  It has been a true friend to the Juicebrothers. Now my appetite for juice has grown wider.  What about wheatgrass and berries? You cannot put them in a centrifugal juicer.  So I got an additional juicer Coway JP-11.

With a centrifugal juicer you can juice anything hard as apples, cabbage, beets, carrots, broccoli, orange, lemon, bellypeppers.  It's fast so you can juice a lot.  Most of the stuff you'd like to juice is alright for the centrifugal juicer. The downside is that wheatgrass is impossible and berries don't give you a lot of juice.

With the slow juicer you can do excellent wheatgrass juice and with the cranberries and lingonberries I juiced the result was fantastic.  The pulp that was leftover was extremely dry and the juice delicious.  The pulps from apple and carrot juice was a bit wet indicating lower efficience in the extracting.  The juice itself was delicious but it too long time.  I am so used to get fast juice with the centrifugal juicer that this was too slow for the Juicebrother.

Lingonberry juice

With oranges I'm not done yet. I'm waiting for the season to start.

Very dry pulp

Wheatgrass juice

The highlight of todays juicing was cabbage and sellery in the Philips and lingonberries in the Coway and finally mixing the two juices. WAU!!!

Bon appetit!

Cookies

Sama suomeksi

You don't always have to use sugar,butter and wheat flour to make cookies. What????  It seems like grammy forgot to tell you this.  As ingredients it's enough with seeds and dried fruit.  Today I combined sesame seeds with raisins and sunflower seeds with dates and inca berries.  To process it you need a super efficient blender like Vita-Mix.  I processed the messy mass until it was almost like nutbutter but I stopped before it started to warm up.

Cookies:
3 parts seeds
(sesame, sunflower, pumpkin
1 part dried fruits
(raisins, dates, goji, inca)

Blend untill it looks like this

try different combinations and add honey if necessary.
Bon appetit!

Porridge of living rye

A thick porridge and cranberries

Sama suomeksi

Let me start by telling you how fantastic our national grain is. I'm talking about rye.  Not in it's traditional form but sprouted and fermented.  It's a lot easier digestible and you got all the nutrients in a super duper way.  Start by soaking the grains for 24 hours.  Drain them and let them sprout for two days or until you can see the sprouts.

Sprouted rye

Pour water to cover the grain completely. Add a teespoonful of juice from sauerkraut to start the fermentation.  After a day in the fridge the water is getting a fresh taste. Now the drink is called Rejuvelac.  The grains will keep for weeks in the fridge.
 

Rejuvelac

Living rye porridge:

Sprouted and fermented rye

Ingredients

a handful of pecans
a handful of raisins
1-2 tbl cranberries (if they are in the season)

Put everything in a foodprocessor and run it untill it looks like porridge.  If you want a thinner porridge than mine, add water according to your taste.
Bon apetit!

Banana ice cream

Banana ice cream with lingonberry juice

Sama suomeksi

Is it true that to create a delicious desert you need lots of sugar and cream?  Up to now this has been the situation for me and particularly Ben&Jerry ice cream has been my number one.
Eventually I remembered an old trick I learned from a friend back in -93. Put deep frozen bananas in a food processor and you have instant ice cream!

Think about the effects on your health compared to ordinary ice cream! Only natures own stuff in unheated condition

Try to by very ripe bananas, peel them and deep freeze them in plastic bags. Now your are ready to put up a delicious desert at any time.

Banana ice cream:
about 1 litre of deep frozen bananas
juice from a 1/2 lemon
1 tbl honey
Put the juice and the honey in the food processor and blend till the honey is mixed with the lemon juice.  Now the honey will mix better with the frozen stuff. Add the bananas, preferably let them soften in room temperature for half an hour, and run it untill it's all smooth.  Serve with blended lingonberries (or cranberries).  I juiced the berries in my new Coway juicer and it made a delicious sauce, very soft.
Bon appetit!

Beet balls

Sama suomeksi

On my last birthday party  there were several goodies served.  These beetroot balls were quite popular.
Beets are delicious but few use them raw.  It is perhaps because of their hard structure.  If you chop them finely in a foodprocessor you get a softer and more eatable structure.  For the taste you add garlic, nutmeg and oliv oil.  To get protein and structure I used ground pumpkin seeds.  The effects on your health you can read about here.

Beet balls:
about 1/2 kg beetroots
3 dl  pumpkin seeds, ground
1-2 tbl flax seeds (give a better structure)
2 tbl oliv oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp nutmeg
1/2 clove of garlic

Put the beets in a food processor and run it untill they are chopped very fine. Add the rest of the ingredients and run it till a sticky mass. Don't run it too long so some structure is left. Form balls with in your palms.  Before you start, oil your hands generously with olive oil.  This way you will prevent the red colour from getting to deep into your palms.
Serve with the Green Sauce or anything else of your hearts desire.
Green Sauce:
10 cm cucumber

A handful of spinach
1/2 dl soaked almonds
salt
1 rkl dijon mustard
1/2 clove of garlic
1 dl oliv or any other oil of your choice
Blend everything in a blender and check the taste.
Bon appetit!

Wednesday juice feast

Ingredients for a supergreen juice

Sama suomeksi

Jocke suggested that we each wednesday drink a lot of juice.  Those who really go for it, only drink juice instead of eating.  The Juice Brothers is Jocke's and mine project to promote a rawer lifestyle and having fun doing it.  Juicing is a fast and easy way of getting more valuable nutrients, anti oxidants, minerals and anything you can imaging into your system as effectivly as possible.  Upto now I haven't had a good wheatgrass juicer so there hasn't been any supergreen juices in my life.  Yeasterday I bought one, Coway Juicepresso.
In the afternoon I went to the Hakaniemen halli and bought 1 kg of wheatgrass and 1 kg of mangold.  Really green stuff.  The wheatgrass extracted excellently and tomorrow I will try the mangold.  I had more than 1 dl of wheatgrass juice in one gulp.  Terrific taste but perhaps a little too much to start with. This is strong stuff!  I also juiced fresh lingonberries.  That was fantastic, finally I can consumate lingonberries by the litres.  The pulp of the berries was extremely dry.  You can't achieve that with a centrifugal juicer.

May the juice be with you!

Green Falaffels

Sama suomeksi

We bought a big bag of peashoots. They are delicious, beautiful and healthy. Additionally they are cheap bought in a larger quantity. After eating them in salads for many days the glory was gone and they seemed to last forever. I had a new task - how to make a receipe out of them. Here it is! I have made the same balls out of cauliflowers before.  The peashoot (or is it peasprouts?) gave an excellent flavour to the dish.  As spices you can use anything you please. The spices in the receipe are just a suggestion.



Green Falaffels for 2-3 persons:

Now you add the rest of the ingredients

1,5 l Peashoot
2 dl pumpkin seeds
1 tbl flax seeds
1 tbl olive oil
1 tsp salt
1 tsp coriander
0,5 tsp tumeric
0,5 tsp jeera
1 tl ginger
Ground sesame seeds

Roll them in ground sesame seeds

Cut the sprouts with a knife to fit them better into the food processor.  Pulsate until it looks like in the picture. Ground the pumpkin and the flax seeds in a blender until they are a fine powder. Add them, the spices and the oil to the sprouts.Keep pulsating until it is a sticky mass (not a mess!)  Be careful not to make it too fine, there should be some structure left.  Form balls and roll them in ground sesame seeds. Serve with salsa and tahini


Salsa:
4 tomatoes
1 tsp salt
Fresh basil
Blackpepper
Lemon juice
Olive oil
Cut the tomatoes fine with a knife and put them in a sieve to drain. Drink the drained water as aperitive and chop the basil .  Blend everything together.
Tahini:
1 dl sesame seeds
1 tsp salt
The juice from 1/2 lemon
2 tbl olive oil
water
Put everything in a blender with 2 dl of water.  Blend with maximum speed until smooth.  Add water until its a smooth sauce, not a stew. Check the taste and do any corrections you need.
Bon appetit!