Homemade Pop!
Well…not really pop according to my son but fizzy juice, almost like pop to the rest of us!!!
For a pitcher mix 3 cans seltzer with 1 container juice concentrate
I used this seltzer
For just a glass mix 1 cup seltzer plus 6 to 8 Tablespoons thawed juice concentrate
Well that was fast…it’s apple time again! Recently we visited our favorite orchard for the first pick of the season (jonafree, scarlett o’hare and liberty).
We filled ourselves with apples and raspberries while we were there and brought a few bags home.
Now what to do with all those apples that are sitting on my counter?! Pies, drying, cake, sauce..the list goes on and on! This week I am going to re-post a raw apple pie recipe that I plan to make tomorrow (for potluck)! I have made it several times and every time it is delicious!!
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!!!
If you have a recipe to share, leave a comment with a link to your recipe post!
This is the best “salad” I have ever had!! It is from The Pioneer Woman’s recipes. I changed it up a little bit to fit my taste-I’ll add in on the original recipe where I added or deleted ingredients.
Warning—-this makes 2 tons so you can feed an army or half the recipe!
Asian Noodle Salad
1lb linguine cooked, rinsed and cooled—-The first time I made this I used 1 lb of rice noodles but found that to be way too much noodle for me so the second time I used a smaller 1/2 lb package of rice sticks and it was much better. It was more like salad with a few noodles instead of noddles with some veggies! Some day I will get around to ordering kelp noodles and substitute these in this recipe!
1/2 to 1 head sliced napa cabbage
1/2- to 1 head purple cabbage
1/2 to 1 bag baby spinich
1 red, 1 yellow and 1 orange pepper sliced thin
1 small bag of mung bean prouts
3 (or more!!) sliced scallions
3 peeled and sliced cucumbers
lots (2 bunches for me) of chopped up cilantro
cashews
Dressing:
juice of 1 lime
8 T olive oil
2-3 T seseme oil
8 T soy sauce
1/3 c brown sugar –I used a large spoonful of honey
3 T fresh ginger chopped (I used more)
2 cloves garlic–again more
2 jalapenos (be careful when chopping!!)
Mix together salad ingredients. Whisk together dressing ingredients and pour over salad. Mix with tongs Top with cashews
Hint if using rice noodles-cook them for only a few minutes and taste DO NOT OVER COOK-rinse them repeatedly in cold water so they don’t become a sticky mess.
Also I added some Chinese hot garlic oil to my bowlful to make it super spicy!! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
If you have a recipe to add to this weeks quarter recipes be sure to leave a link in the comments to your recipe post.
Remember I used to post recipes on Thursdays and invited readers to join in the fun and link to recipe on their blogs on Thursdays? Well let’s try again!! If you need the whole sorted explanation of why I chose to call them quarter recipes you can read about it here.
So here is my meager but tasty and healthy recipe for this week.
We enjoy smoothies many mornings. On this day we mixed up a couple of frozen bananas, about 3 large handfuls of spinach, some orange juice, a couple of tablespoons of goji berries, a couple of tablespoons of chia seeds, and a whole lot of frozen blueberries in my VITA-MIX.
I keep my chia seeds in the freezer, that’s why they look sweaty.
This may be a green smoothie, but the blueberries really make it more purple.
If you have a favorite recipe to share (it doesn’t have to be raw) leave a link in the comments to your blog’s recipe post.
Or think about joining in next week. Because I have the world’s best salad recipe to share next Thursday! (I have been eating it for days)
