Friday, December 19, 2003

Braun MP80 Juice Extractor Recently I ordered a fruit and vegetable juicer from amazon.com. It's the Braun MP80, highly recommended in the amazon customer reviews. I had read about it at an oddball health site by Dr. Mercola. Today I tried the juicer for the second time, making myself a glass of vegetable-apple juice for lunch. I added the pulp to my lentil soup. Wow, does it have thickening power! I can see that it would be possible to make some dynamite thick vegetable pasta sauces based on the juicer pulp. The pulp would make good spreads too. Oh, and the juice does taste fine. The first time I tried the juicer, I ate the pulp raw after I drank the juice. This tasted fine too. I guess you get more enzymes eating the pulp raw. This is a new direction for me. I've gone through many "health nut phases" but never into juicing. It's fun to surprise myself. 1:45:48 PM    comment []

Zen A friend and subscriber here sent me a copy of the free zen journal. Perhaps she was responding to my recent attention to becoming effortless. Here's a quote from the December zen journal: "There is no place for overexertion of effort in Buddhism...." When I went to the website, I saw that one can also subscribe to a daily zen saying. Although I'm not a zen buddhist, I did subscribe. A daily zen saying might taste very good for breakfast. 9:18:36 AM    comment []