Morning Walk Series [10]

When I was young, my Mum didn't like us to drink Ribena.  "Too much sugar!", she said.  Now, she boils this drink that tastes a lot like Ribena and it is all natural!  Just use the fruits from the Roselle plant.

Common name: Roselle
Binomial name: Hibiscus sabdariffa

Roselle flower and fruit

Vegetable/Fruit Bread

One big difference when using a slow juicer as compared to a blender, was the separation of fibre from the juice.  Here's the by-product of juicing:

Vegetable and fruit fibre

 Instead of throwing the fibre away, I added them to my bread.  Ta-daa!  A plain loaf of bread becomes a carrot-celery-apple bread!

Vegetable/Fruit bread

Slow Juicer

Slow juicer

A what juicer, you say??  Exactly what I was thinking when I first heard about the slow juicer...  all my life, I have been making smoothies/juices using a blender.  But, apparently the slow juicer is supposed to retain more nutrients in your juices as it doesn't make use of a high speed blade, which in turn creates heat.  Going through a vegetables and fruit juice phase, we bit the bullet and got ourselves a slow juicer (these are not cheap!).

And to test it out, here's a simple combination of carrots, apples and celery:

Apples, carrots, celery

The end product was a thicker, more condensed version as compared to the blender version (needed water to enable the blender to work).  Yummy!!

What do you do with your kitchen scraps?

When I cook, I like to prepare all the ingredients way before cooking time... just in case the little one decides to be cranky just then.  Whenever I have the time (i.e. the little one is taking a nap), I wash and chop everything up, then place them in the fridge for later.  Here's something all nicely prepared:

All ready to be cooked!

And the by-product of all this is here -- vegetable scraps:

Vegetable scraps

Notice that the vegetable scraps are in a box?  Why?  Because I collect them and freeze them.  What do you think I'll do with them next?