I am here to solve all your juicing problems, okay, I can’t solve the fact that you have to clean the juicer up (yes, I’m talking about that again) but I can give you something to do with the leftovers. I’m sure these are already a thing, but I have my mum to thank for this genius of an idea.
I’ve been calling these pulp muffins which obviously sound extremely appetising...I’m not really sure what else you could call them though, and “pulp muffins” is pretty fitting.
Maybe I should actually explain what these are for those of you who aren’t really sure what I’m going on about. That pulp you have left over from making a
juice, don’t chuck it away! There are quite a few recipes out there of what to do with your leftover pulp and some of them...aren’t so tasty, but muffins solve everything.
These are so much fun to make, they’re always an experiment and you don’t always entirely know what you’re getting, but that’s the fun of it. You can add more flavours, experiment with toppings and fillings, basically you get a fancy muffin to match your juice and some added nutrients and fiber, don’t you just feel better about eating muffins now.
The pear, kiwi, spinach and lime with chocolate chips are definitely my favourite, but then maybe that’s just because there’s chocolate in them and green muffins? Yes, I’m the type of person that wants to eat green muffins.
Christmas is over and I feel like I was so busy this year I didn’t have time to enjoy it. Mental note for next year: be more organised! Maybe I should start making Christmas cards now, that’s something I always run out of time to do; I’m sure that’s very idealistic thinking I can’t imagine I’ll actually start doing that.
So after 24 days straight I took three whole days off and in those three days I spent entirely too much time thinking about this blog, whoops, there goes my "time off"!
It took me a long time to get round to making this, I’m pretty sure I’ve had this idea stacked away in the back of my brain for about 3 months and I think the only reason it took me so long is because I wasn’t sure I was going to like it. I know that sounds crazy, why come up with the idea if you don’t think you’ll like it (I seem to be good at that) but for some reason I always think I don’t like Clementine’s but whenever I eat them I really enjoy them. As a kid I wasn’t a fan of the texture so the idea puts me off, my sister and I used to suck the juice out and leave the rest. I also really dislike going about my daily life and someone peeling a Clementine in the near vicinity of me, the smell really bothers me, not that I don’t like the smell it just bothers me a little. Is this making any sense? Anyway Clementine’s in salads are my new favourite thing, just staring at these pictures makes me want to go make a quinoa salad with Clementine’s in. I'm glad a friend told me that it sounds good because I found this ridiculously delicious, way more than I could have ever expected.
This wasn’t actually the plan when I came up with this but after eating this I realised it’s the perfect salad for leftover meat, the mix of the cranberry and clementine would go to well with turkey or ham. It would also be a good serving salad for a party, cranberry sauce on the side. If you don't want to add meat and you want a little protein sunflower seeds are tasty with this (I forgot to photograph that bit I was too busy eating).
