The Kitchen Sink Veggie Drink

For non English speakers, the title refers to a common expression, "everything, but (or some say, except) the kitchen sink," which means, "EVERYTHING," or, "a bit of everything."

Ingredients (4 servings):

32 ounces of plain low fat yogurt
5 radishes
1 carrot
1/2 red bell pepper
1 stalk celery (cut so you can take the strings out)
1 tomato (I actually used about 8 to 10 grape tomatoes)
1 chili pepper (if you like a little heat, I used a serrano chili and it did not overwhelm with heat)
5 garlic cloves
3 green onions (use the green, unless it is dried out)
1 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1/2 teaspoon seasoned salt
1 handful kale or baby kale
1 handful spinach leaves
1 handful beet greens *
3 inch piece seedless cucumber
2 stems of fresh mint, stems and leaves
1 handful fresh parsley, stems and leaves
1 inch piece of ginger, aka, ginger root, peeled 

Rinse the veggies and herbs well. No need to chop, chop, chop; just put them into a blender whole, or cut into pieces so they will fit. Add all of the ingredients to the blender and blend until you have a smooth mixture, although you will likely still have to chew the veggie bits. Of course, it might just be my cheap ass... ah... my cost efficient blender.   

* For my article on roasted beets, here is the link, they are excellent:  http://pontificating-randy.blogspot.com/2016/06/roasted-beets.html 

WORD HISTORY: 
Vegetable-This word, distantly related to "vigor" (British spelling: vigour), "watch," and "wake,"^ goes back to Indo European "weg/wek," which had the notion, "to be active, to be lively." This gave Latin "vegere," with the same general meaning; thus also, "to excite, to cause to move about." This produced the adjective "vegetus," meaning, "active, lively." This then produced the verb "vegetare," meaning, "to invigorate, to stimulate, to enliven." This produced the Latin adjective "vegetabilis," meaning, "having the capability to grow, be growing (that is, 'be alive')." This carried into Old French, a Latin-based language, as "vegetable," meaning, "growing, living," gradually with this applying to plants in general. English borrowed the adjective circa 1400, and from this developed the noun of the same spelling, but also applying to plants of any type. It took until about the mid 1700s for the noun to gradually be used for "certain plants bearing edible produce (thus also, that edible produce of certain plants)."  

^ "Vigor" (vigour) is not a native English word, but rather it is a Latin derived word borrowed by English from French, but both "watch" and "wake" are English words, going back to Old Germanic. The reason I say the words are distantly related, is that the original relationship goes back to Indo European.