This week’s recipe theme is ALL AMERICAN So I made an apple pie…raw!! I try to keep most of my diet to raw food - it gets more difficult for me as it gets colder outside! But I don’t usually follow raw recipes. I just throw veggies together and mix up the “sauce” ingredients or I just eat fruit plain and simple. But a friend of mine posts the most divine looking raw desserts (as well as breakfasts, lunches and dinners!) on her blog, she inspired me to try one for myself.

You will need both a blender and a food processor. Because, I guess you can’t put liquid stuff in the food processor or it will seep out of every crack and crevasse..nobody told me that!

For the crust you will need

2 cups almonds-plus a few more for dusting the bottom

2 cups dates

1 teaspoon salt

Put a few almonds in the food processor and line your pie plate with almond dust

Next process the almonds dates and salt until they make a sticky mass. Dump them into a bowl and make it into a ball with your hands, try to form it into your pan shape as best you can-it will be crumbly-press itinto the bottom of you r pie plate.

For the Filling you will need

6-8 apples chopped-or thinly sliced

1 cup raisins and or cranberries

2 Tablespoons cinnamon

Combine in a bowl

For the Syrup for the filling you will need (this can be doubled-I did, because I lost most of it when I tried to make it in the food processor instead of the blender!)

1/2 cup of dates

1 large orange

1/4 cup of water

Blend this all up until smooth and pour over your filling.

Be sure to pit all your dates!!!

This was so delicious!! I even ate it for breakfast the next day and it was even better because the apples had softened a bit.

Try it you’ll like it!!!

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Next weeks theme is ORANGE

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Yes you read that right, Pumpkin Pie Popsicles!  And believe it or not, they are really good!

I cooked 2 small butternut squash (in the oven, but you could boil them too).  I scooped out the squash and added 1/2 cup pure maple syrup, 2/3 cup light cream (I used 1/2 & 1/2) and 1/2 to 3/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice.  Smash it all up really well and scoop into Popsicle molds.  I swear these are da bomb!!  This great recipe also came from this months Family Fun Magazine.

Tonight I met with my Mother Artist Group to see the movie, Who Does She Think She Is? Excellent documentary about Women/Mother artists.  It is a powerful statement of how society has and still does view women artists and how these women struggle to be a wife and mother and still answer the overpowering need to create.  Check out their site and find the screening near you.  And go see it!

And look what I came home to!

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Tonight was a night of tradition, My kids love our family rituals and our holiday traditions. We spread lots of newspaper on the kitchen floor and carved our pumpkins. We watched, “It’s The Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown.” And we ate donuts and pumpkin seeds.

This year we included a couple of new things. We looked at our fingernail shapes, and the lines on our hands….

And we made Barm Brac-A cross between bread and cake, used in kitchen fortune telling! The coin symbolizes increased wealth over the next year. the bean, contentment, the thimble, a year of hard work and the pea, unhappiness in love.

The directions are as follows:

1 pack active dry yeast

1 1/2 cups plus 1 teaspoon lukewarm milk

1 1/4 cups plus 1 teaspoon sugar

4 cups flour

1 teaspoon nutmeg

1 teaspoon cinnamon

1 teaspoon allspice

1 teaspoon salt

1 stick butter cut into small pieces

2 eggs, beaten with a little bit of water

2 cups mix of golden raisins and currents

1/2 cup mixed candied fruit peel-lemon and oange

a coin, a thimble, a bean, and a pea

Glaze: 3 teaspoons powder sugar dissolved in 3 teaspoons boiling water

In a small bowl, cream yeast with 1 teasp milk and 1 teasp sugar until frothy

In another bowl, sift together flour, sugar, spices and salt. With your hands. rub in the butter. Make a well in the center of the flour mixture and pour in the yeast, beaten egg and milk. Mix the ingredients well with wooden spoon for about 5 minutes until a good dough forms. Add the fruit and the peel and the pea, coin etc… Cover the bowl with a clean cloth and allow it to rise in a warm place until doubled in size-aprox 1 hr 15 mins, Knead again slightly and place in lightly greased cast iron skillet, cover and let rise again for 30 mins.

Place in 4oo degree oven and bake until goden brown-about 1 hour.

When done remove the pan and let cool on a wire rack. Glaze while warm.

I didn’t want to bake plastic stuff into the bread so I used a dime, a dry chick pea, a dry black bean, dry lima bean. Once baked it was really hard to find the beans!! Everyone dug through their pieces! But I found the dime!!! Yeah for me!

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