As Flanders and Swan might have said, “I’m absolutely delirious about” my new juicer. Regular readers of JaJa99 may recall that I am on a health kick of drinking celery juice every morning, but was struggling to find a sensibly priced machine to take the hard work out of juicing stick-loads of the greeny/white stuff. After Alison gave up researching it and gave me free licence to source my own, I returned to the expert “UK Juicers” website on the basis that it was something I am going to use every day, so sturdiness and quality are important. Inevitably they don’t come cheap. I was intrigued to learn from the extremely helpful lady at UK Juicers that celery juicing has become so popular in recent months, they had written a special article devoted to the subject, with recommendations as to whether “vertical centrifugal” or “horizontal masticating” was the best. I cannot claim to be an expert on the subject, but now rather better informed than I was, I am the proud possessor of a very sturdy (and not inexpensive) Omega horizontal masticator (making sure spell-check hasn’t interfered) that only takes up a relatively small area of our small area of worktops. Mrs Tutt hasn’t complained at all. I did, however, make a strategic error. Whilst putting the masterpiece of masticators together I stupidly left the invoice out. The Head of the Household came in at that moment and with unerring accuracy her eyes alighted upon the aforementioned document. “HOW MUCH?!!” she sayeth. Going into full apology mode I explained that it was an ex-demo model and was actually a real bargain. The raised eyebrows and mocking look suggested I wasn’t really hitting home.
However, marital ire aside, the OHM is a great success. Juicing each evening is now a real pleasure and even such fun that 12 year old daughter is keen to do it. The further good news is that it really does seem to be having a most beneficial effect on her acne. “The Medical Medium” , Anthony William, is the man who claims responsibility for spreading the celery gospel, should you be interested in delving further into the subject.
Seaweed also has health benefits as you probably know. I’ve just heard a report on The World at One on BBC Radio 4, recounting how a remote Hebridean island has discovered that its multitudinous sheep flourish on seaside grazing. The protein rich weed apparently creates a tasty, rather more “gamey” meat, that even QEII has latched onto. Perhaps more importantly, it creates considerably less methane gas having passed through the ruminants, which are responsible for about 15% of Britain’s total output of the nasty stuff. Now that has to be good news.
I fear you may be too young to remember Michael Flanders and Donald Swan, who were a brilliant musical/comedic double act of my youth. One of their songs has stuck in my ever more colander-like brain. “I’m absolutely delirious about my new eye-level cooker………. this means that without my having to bend down…… the hot fat can spit straight into my eyes!” Timing is, of course, everything and it’s rather better heard than read.
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