Baking Fail + {Spinach Lemonade}

Posted: February 28, 2013

Okay, here comes a confession: sometimes my recipes fail...like big time. Like throw the entire batch straight-into-the-trashcan-fail.  Yesterday was one of those days. I was so excited about last week's super successful juicing/baking combo of Good Morning Juice and Carrot Cake Muffins that I sought out to replicate the process with a different set of flavors: a green lemonade plus lemon/lime bars using the pulp.  The lemonade was fantastic, but the bars were awful...waaaaaaaaaaaay too much spinach pulp to make something semi-sweet and palatable. And i just get so optimistic that I'm adding health/nutrients that I put way too much of the pulp in (over 2 cups).   So, you won't be seeing those on the blog.  I only include recipes that are tried and true and delicious!

Like this Spinach Lemonade:

This is a good one to try if you have a lot of extra leftover spinach that is about to go bad, or if it's on super sale at the grocery store... it uses 8 cups!!

The juice is sweetened naturally with the addition of a pear and a couple of granny smith apples. But, if you like your lemonade really sweet, like Dear Hubby, you could add in a couple drizzles of agave nectar into your glass at the end.  But, I prefer it with all the lemon-y goodness shining through!

I just love how green and refreshing this juice is, even on a winter's day.  You could even add a yellow bell pepper if you had one lying around (which I didn't).  And have you noticed how much I love photographing juice?!?! #soooooopretty

Other new recipes coming soon:

  • Caramel Oatmeal Bake
  • Morning Sunrise Juice
  • Veggie-filled Pizza Sauce using carrot/sweet potato pulp
  • Key Lime Pie Bites
  • Thin Pizza Crust
  • Do you have any recipe requests???

Spinach Lemonade

Description

Spinach Lemonade // @noshandnourish

Ingredients

8 cups
Spinach
2  
Lemons
1⁄2  
Cucumber
1  
Pear
2  
Granny Smith Apples

Instructions

  1. Peel lemons.
  2. Core apples.
  3. Juice everything.
  4. Add a splash of agave nectar if you want to tame the sour/lemon flavor a bit.  (optional)

Yields 36 Ounces

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Comments

Submitted by Terri - February 28, 2013 - 10:10am

I'm certainly going to try this recipe, it sounds wonderful. I do a lot of juicing at least every alternate day and most of the books I've read on the juicing subject recommend in most instances you use the whole fruit or veg. My daily juice consists of Beetroot, Carrots, Apples, 1/3 of a large cucumber (or a whole Lebanese Cucumber) a stick of celery, a whole lemon & a slice of fresh ginger. Everything is juiced skin on, non cored/pipped apples or lemon, this concoction tastes marvelous. Along with a healthy diet I've lost 20+kgs of weight, I'm so much fitter & stronger (Chemo in 2009 left me very weak in the lower body.....not anymore)
I like you am always wondering how I can use the pulp after juicing, today after being inspired by your muffins made some Picklets using some carrot, apple & celery pulp....yummy!!!!
Love your page
Terri

Submitted by Wendy - February 28, 2013 - 11:23am

I have read it might not be a good idea if you use a lot of apples to leave the seeds in due to the Arsenic in them, your body (liver) has to work harder to cleanse out this toxin

Submitted by Terri - February 28, 2013 - 8:17pm

Your comments about the arsenic in apple pips is correct but its the arsenic in my Apples & the Apricot seeds that I eat (B17) that I hope are helping to get rid of my cancer, the tumors are already shriveling.

Submitted by kelly - February 28, 2013 - 12:16pm

I usually don't peel my cucumbers (they're just peeling in the pic b/c I peeled them for my Blackberry Cucumber Chicken Salad. I do always core my apples and pears, mostly because I don't want to add the extra stress on my juicer. I have a fairly small Breville...and I want to protect it so that I can use it for years to come :) I peel the sweet potatoes, but not carrots. And I always peel citrus b/c otherwise the juice is too bitter for me.
Submitted by Wendy - February 28, 2013 - 7:50pm

I would have thought cucumber peels were ok in my omega juicer but they said to peel those, so not all juicers can handle those peels, also in my opinion the wax might gunk up the strainer holes.

Submitted by Wendy - February 28, 2013 - 11:19am

Looking forward to upcoming thin pizza crust, the Carrot cake muffins were good, I used Bob's WW Pastry flour and they turned out fine, even though I used apple sauce and only 4.5 oz Greek Plain and Vanilla yogurt combined I had on hand and added applesauce to make us the rest to equal 6oz.

Submitted by kelly - February 28, 2013 - 12:17pm

Thanks for letting me know about the carrot cake muffins - and Bob's WW pastry flour...and the apple sauce. Glad they turned out well!!
Submitted by Calee - February 28, 2013 - 5:33pm

So glad you posted this. I read somewhere that you shouldn't juice spinach (or beet greens) because it could cause some sort of negative inflammatory response. I called bullshit on that, and told Mark to go ahead and juice spinach if he wants to. He's been having a hard time finding a non-fruity juice that he likes, and he's been feeling really crappy (thinking it's because he's been juicing mostly fruits or sweet veggies).

I'm so sharing this with him. Keep those recipes coming.

How's your juicing going?

PS I used beet pulp in my oatmeal ... and it made it taste like playdoh. I don't recommend. ;)

Submitted by Amber - March 2, 2013 - 8:42am

I love coming to this blog and finding exactly what I'm looking for in the first post! I'm starting a new job on Monday which has less flexibility in it's schedule so I really need to buckle down and do my grocery shopping once a week. I'm also getting back into jucing- and this looks perfect because I'm already buying a boat load of spinach for a crustless quiche this week. Thank you!

Submitted by Margaret - April 9, 2013 - 12:08am

How come I do not have the option to save this recipe to my zip list account ???

Submitted by kelly - April 9, 2013 - 9:33am

I've never used "zip list"... Maybe you could contact their support?

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