Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Job One: Fresh-squeezed Orange Juice


Kathleen has a weakness for pulpy orange juice, squeezed fresh. She haunts Lund's and Byerly's where she can get her special elixer, unpasteurized and full of things floating around in its orange stickiness.

Our host, Randy, has an orange tree in his LA backyard, so just about the first thing we did when we arrived Saturday was pull down a bagful of big ripe ones, bring them inside and squeeze the goodness out of them.

A half-gallon of fresh squeezed costs $8 to $10 at Lund's or Byerly's. Randy's is free for the taking, although Katie did get a bit of a workout with her right arm. But when her job was done, the entire house (below) smelled like orange zest.