Red grapes, Rose Apple, Oranges

As my girl wasn't used to chewing grapes with its skin, it took some time to remove the skin and seeds before the grapes could be fed to my big baby.

On the other hand, she couldn't finish the  whole big apple but only 1/4 of it as most, I had to eat lotsa apple leftover each day.

Left with many grapes that were very ripen and an apple in the fridge... I decided to juice them when I made orange juices today.

Sorry, no pics as these were very common fruits ^^

10-20 big red grapes and 2/3 big apples (core removed), yielded about 1 cup of juice for my girl (to ease her constipation).

5 big Africa oranges ($2.45 for 5 from Fairprice) yielded 2 1/2 cup of oranges for my husband and I ^^

All in less than 20mins. Really convenient and effortless to juice different batches together.

(Side note: the grape and apple juice seemed to separate into pulp and water layers after a while)

Kiwi...

Kiwi, strawberries... Such soft fruits are probably not suitable, in terms of its volume, when it came to slow juicing.

Earlier this week, my girl rejected her first try of kiwi fruits. It's probably too sour, instead of sweet, that she didn't like it.

So today while we were juicing oranges, I thought of mixing the kiwi into the juice for my constipated girl.

If worked, she finished the juice... But to be frank, there's only very little amount of juice from this big kiwi... Sigh... I didn't waste the pulp, I ate it! Yes, I know it may sound/seem gross... But it's still fruit, right?

Sticking with juicing oranges, apples, kind of crunchy and juicy fruits, instead of expensive soft fruits... Hmm... At least my girl took it in its juice form ;p

Back from confinement

I had certainly kept really quiet on this blog for a while... Not that I had forgotten it but I just 'graduated' from confinement ^^

And the very first juice I craved for after 40 days of warm longan dates tea... Was the chilled Orange Juice!!!

My elder daughter loves the orange juice... Probably the first type of juice that let her learnt the word 'juice'...

The difference in this batch was that I had added a little bit (abt the size of a thumb) of ginger... Yes! Ginger, as I had plenty of leftover from the confinement...

Verdict? This tiny bit of ginger overwhelmed the 15 small African oranges used in juicing... So, lesson learnt. If you intend to include ginger to boost the nutrition value of the juice, use just 1-2 slices and that would probably be more than enough in terms of the taste...

Good luck when you try it.. Haa! Really glad to be back to juicing... WuhOO! ^^

Something to try for... The what butter?

My husband loves peanut butter...

He got curious and asked if the slow juicer could make some peanut butter when he saw me juicing the almond nuts previously...

This question really make me ponder, so I did some research over the web and found a video on youtube... This juicer reviewer guy (raw food something..) demo the making of peanut butter using heavy duty slow juicer...

The keys are:

1. The slow juicer has to be heavy duty or it will damage the motor since it will be done without water and no pre-soaking required
2. The peanuts are best to be roasted nuts so its oil content will make it easier during the juicing process and the pulp will become the peanut butter
3. When 'juicing' peanut butter, it's best to open up the silicon slot underneath the juicer to allow better pressure flow in releasing the pulp from the unit

This is really an interesting finding and I hope to try it one day.... The only concern in my mind is, I wasn't sure if A*Juicer is a 'heavy duty' juicer that suit this making... Nevertheless, I thought I should share with you what's on my mind with the potential juicing project... Haa!

Let me know if you have tried it! Cheers! ^^

There's something to share about APPLES

I have no idea what to juice recently... a trip to the supermarket didn't pack much back...

Fruits are getting more expensive nowadays...

And have you seen or are you are even aware of the ROSE apples in the market now? They are called the "Rose" apples... rosy red, not waxy and absolutely sweet!

 The first rose apple I ever tried was many months ago when my parents got them from cold storage. Those apples were small and selling at almost $1 each at that time...

BUT Seriously SWEET!

Since then, we would look out for only Rose apples... not crunchy kiwi apple, good-bye to fuji apples, seen some envy apples from US or NZ... but we ONLY buy ROSE apples!

There seems to be a season for such great fruit... the rose apples that we manage to get now no longer taste that sweet as they used to be, though still better than the almost tasteless CN fuji apples...

Speaking of apples, I should probably get some cheap ones for juicing since I heard that i may help to ease constipation in kid... Green + Red, perhaps! Hope this help!

(And my girl loves juice!)

Some days later

It's been sometime since I last post entry about the usage of my juicer...

It's been more than a month since I got this juicer...

That doesn't mean that I haven't been using it... Haa! I had made soy bean milk (coarse strainer), almond milk (coarse strainer), orange juice (fine strainer) and banana smoothie (fine strainer)!

Sorry, no pics as I was in a rush when making all these (on different days of course!) Just a quick tip to share with all as one of my lesson learnt...

When making Banana smoothie...

Tip#1 Do not freeze the entire banana, try to peel them before freezing
Why is this so? Because when the skin turned hard, it's challenging to peel the skin properly...

Tip#2 Keep the rubber unblock at the bottom of the juicing unit
This allows the 'pulp' which is the smoothie to come off unit more easily

I'll share some pics next time when I do it correctly next time... Anyway, it tastes pretty good this batch... so just some pointers to note.... Cheers~*

Sadly.... my 4th warranty registration...

It's not that the juicer is having any problem now... Also, under my care, I was almost confident that it probably won't need for any servicing within 1 year...

However, it took really too long with its warranty registration process...

The juicer was received on 3rd Jun, I tried the first online registration about a week later, so probably 8th or 9th Jun? I forgot...

I received nothing... so I tried again.... and again.... and after the 3rd time, I sent a feedback to the company but nothing was received. Lucky enough that my ex-classmate was working there so he tried to find out for me and kept me posted on the progress...

This evening, upon request, I did my 4th online registration... and here's the screenshot, just in case if it went missing (again)....

Hope it can be settled soon... Cheers!

Updated on 7/3: So I received a confirmation that my warranty registration is processed. Now, I'm waiting for my e-recipe ^^