For today's installment of Makin' It Monday, we wanted to share something that we've been making a lot of lately. It's so simple, yet so delicious and refreshing. Here's the recipe:

• 2 cucumbers
• 3 large stalks of celery
• 1 handful of cilantro

That's all!? You might finish with a pinch of your favorite salt (optional).? Also, since the cucumber is an extremely water-heavy veggie, I would advise you to run it through the juicer several times. Here's what I do:

I run the cilantro first, followed by the cucumber. Then, whatever pulp comes out, I usually run that again, pushed down into the juice feeder by the celery. (If I'm juicing a lot of celery, I'm always careful to run that last, as celery is very fibrous and tends to gum up the works. But, for a single-serving juice like this, that really isn't much of an issue.)

From there, I usually re-run the pulp through three or four more times until it starts coming out of the chute rather dry, or until you can see that you're no longer getting any juice from re-running the pulp. When that happens, you can either discard your remaining pulp, compost it, give it to a pet, or save it for some later concotion such as a dehdrated cracker.

Photo credits for creative commons pics used in making the banner:

?? * Celery pic from Flickr user Daveybot

?? * Cuke pic from Flickr user Andy2Boyz

?? * Cilantro pic from Flickr user Michael Lehet