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Blueberry Lemon Pie
Sometimes you walk into a market and your eyes spot something so beautiful, so enticing, you know you have to have them. Baskets of gigantic blueberries were staring back at me and I knew this was my opportunity to make my favorite, blueberry lemon pie. How these huge, luscious blueberries survived my snacking long enough to make it into this pie is the real mystery here. This is a take on my friend Gretchen’s mother’s blueberry pie recipe. Cooked, the challenge as always is…will the fruit be soft enough to be called a pie. It’s easy to just throw fruit into a crust, which you most certainly can do, but…
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Pear Sauce with Black Currents
Back in the 1980’s I had a boyfriend who introduced me Michio Kushi’s Macrobiotics book. At first I followed the recipes religiously, layering my food, only eating “in season” fruits and vegetables. I was pretty religious about this for a couple of years. One of my favorites was the pear sauce and I continued to make it through the years. It’s cooked, and honestly, usually overcooked, so I didn’t think of it to add here right away. Since we started this site we’ve done many experiments using the dehydrator to soften foods and enhance the flavors of a dish. Sometimes it takes a few tries but not this time. Perfect…
Pineapple Mounds Bar Dessert
Cravings, they’re either going to keep me very happy or be the death of me. I know I said I would never make another chocolate candy again, but here I am. While in the supermarket checkout I glanced over and there, tempting me with it’s coconut goodness was a Mounds Bar. I picked it up, contemplating my memory of it’s chocolate coconut melange on my taste buds and then made the fatal mistake of reading the ingredients. I put it down and ran back and grabbed what I needed to make my own. The choice to put pineapple in the Mounds Bars were purely out of having too much pineapple…
4 LAYER BIRTHDAY CAKE
Sometimes you want to make something special but hold on to a recipe for just that right moment. Well, no excuse is better than a birthday to make a cake. Introducing Eden’s birthday cake. Sure, it’s not really a cake per se, but it’s as healthy as it gets, naturally sweet and once decorated, rises to the occasion. Chock full of fruity goodness, this birthday cake will please kids and adults alike. That said, I will do it differently next time. I think certain fruits would work better than the ones I chose. While aesthetically gorgeous, pitaya (dragon fruit) is pretty damn bland. The swirls you see were not just…
Strawberry Pizza with Candied Basil
Okay, so it’s not really a pizza, but it’s delicious. Marie had wanted to make a strawberry pizza and we threw around some ideas. Part of me wanted to make a strawberry sauce but then what do you put on top that’s raw, vegan and appetizing looking. Because to take a quote from one of the very quotable kids here: “why is everything so beige?”. He’s not wrong. One of our goals on this site is to make things that entice you. Food that you want to eat. To encourage people to eat better by visually kicking those food endorphins in first, then dazzle you with flavor. Let’s face it,…
Prune Hamantaschen
A day late and a dollar short as they say. My intention was to make prune hamantaschen in time for Purim but I didn’t have prunes in the house. That wasn’t the only reason why they weren’t ready. I had wanted them to have a closer consistency to the real thing and the dehydrator wasn’t cooperating. I like my new dehydrator. Marie and her family got it for me for Christmas. The problem is I got so used to having Marie’s professional one in the house that I get frustrated; my home dehydrator takes a lot more time. I hadn’t allotted for that difference and depending on which dehydrator you…
Mom’s Vanilla Apricot Macaroons
My mother was really quite the cook but, hands down, baking was her favorite thing to do. It was also my dad’s favorite thing for her to do because he had quite the sweet tooth and she catered to it completely. Needless to say, my sister and I were not complaining much about it either. Our house was like a horn of plenty, always filled with multiple tins of home-baked goods and likely some more lining up in the oven. My mother literally lived for school bake sales. It was the one time she tooted her own horn because her concoctions were always the first to get sold. Inevitably she…
Rose Hips and Blood Orange Super Cookies
In the mood for a cookie but don’t want to cheat on your diet? Well don’t pass up this incredibly healthy and delicious high fiber, antioxidant goodie. I drink rose hips and hibiscus tea all winter, usually mixing my own recipe with dried orange peels. And when I feel even an inkling of a cold, I drink this elixir every 2 hours as hot as I can stand it. For me it works every time. While winter begs for high vitamin C, please be cautious as it can interact with medications. Too much vitamin C can affect the kidneys, hormones and blood thinners. The benefits in fighting inflammation and boosting…
Apple Pear Cardamom Tart
What is it about winter nights by the fire that always gets me yearning for something comforting and warm like apple pie with cinnamon? And maybe a dollop of whipped cream? When I mentioned this at home one evening, everyone got really excited – as they generally do whenever I bring up the prospect of making something sweet. I only wish I’d get such an enthusiastic response to making a new salad! Instead of plain old apple pie, however, I remembered something I created years ago for an especially large Thanksgiving celebration: an Apple Pear Cardamom Tart. That tart lasted all of 5 minutes…I kid you not. Of course, that…
Mexican Chocolate Thumb Cookies
Chilly days in Northern New Mexico calls for some warming desserts. Since this is a raw site, heat is sometimes sought out in other ways. I’m a big fan of Mexican chocolate. Generally I would make a hot cocoa, well, almost hot, but I have to admit it gets a little annoying trying to keep the temp exactly right. Marie made these yummy coconut-y thumb cookies at Christmas time, they were simple but not quite the…holy cow we need to make these again. I made Mexican chocolate cookies around that time too, but they were a little flat and needed a bigger kick. So I decided to make them again…
