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March62012

Making Homemade Orange Juice

We have more citrus fruit than we know what to do with. We love being able to walk to the backyard and grab a grapefruit or orange when the craving hits, but having never owned fruit trees, we are slowly coming to a loss as what to do with them.

One thing we have started is a weekend morning ritual of making fresh orange juice. With daddy’s help, M has become quite the orange juice maker.

We don’t own a juicer so we make it old school, squeezing orange after orange.

And licking fingers in between 😉

We don’t add any water or sugar. Luckily these oranges are sweet enough to drink straight.

M looks forward to making oj every weekend.

and I love that she’s learning how to make real fruit juice.

If you had endless amounts of oranges, what would you do with them? I’m in the market for some ideas 🙂

11 Responses

  1. j3nn said on March 6, 2012 at 8:59 am

    I’d love to have a citrus tree! I would make: Orange cake, orange ice pops/creamsicles, and cranberry sauce. Maybe even candied orange peels. 🙂

  2. Barbara said on March 6, 2012 at 9:24 am

    I love oranges…especially sweet ones! Why don’t you use the juice to make orange juice ice pops…I’m sure M would love them…I know I would 🙂

  3. Maryea {Happy Healthy Mama} said on March 6, 2012 at 4:48 pm

    You do know how lucky you are, right? I would look forward to every weekend, too!

  4. Anne said on March 6, 2012 at 7:03 pm

    How special to just be able to walk into the backyard and grab an orange! I’m jealous 🙂

  5. Maya said on March 7, 2012 at 6:11 am

    You should google Moroccan Orange Yogurt Cake! It is absolutely delicious and my family has been making it for years!

  6. Nicole, RD said on March 7, 2012 at 6:35 am

    There is nothing about this post that doesn’t make me want to packe up everything I own and move to CA! Jealous!

  7. Jen @ The Well Read Fish said on March 7, 2012 at 11:28 am

    You could freeze them for smoothies – Creamsicle smoothies! Vanilla and orange!

  8. Weekly Bite said on March 7, 2012 at 8:51 pm

    These are all great ideas!!! Thank You !!

  9. Maureen said on March 8, 2012 at 11:11 am

    When I lived in Orlando there was an abandoned orange grove behind our house and many of the trees had fruit. I wore out two juice machines that year and filled a chest freezer with juice. Ahhh.. memories 🙂

  10. Heart of Virginia said on March 8, 2012 at 8:20 pm

    Brings back memories of growing up. We had a navel orange tree in our backyard. Nothing like fresh oranges from the tree. My dad would bring a bag of oranges in and I would make a pitcher of fresh juice. wouldn’t last long.

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  11. Kerrie said on March 12, 2012 at 10:14 am

    Here is AZ we love the abundance of citrus too. I would take your juicing efforts 1 week pour it into an ice cube tray and add orange zest to it. Come summertime when berry season hits I’ll love to add a cube to make fruit salad a little juicy.

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