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Well here is another fantastic Everyday Raw Desserts Recipe!
I am more than excited about all the recipes I received from Meredith. I love making the raw dessert recipes, probably more than any other recipes. Even though I really enjoy making sprouted salads.
This recipe is a berry cheesecake and I chose to use the fresh picked blueberries that I picked last week. They were frozen but the cheesecake turned out absolutely perfect!
Frozen Berry Cheesecake
Makes one 9 inch cake Crust
cashew flour
agave
vanilla
salt
Filling
soaked cashews
cashew nut milk
lemon juice
lime juice
agave
vanilla extract
salt
coconut oil
Berry Swirl
fresh or frozen berries
lemon juice
agave
coconut oil, melted
Crust- Process the cashews in the food processor to a fine meal. Add remaining ingredients until combined. Do not over process, you want the mixture to be crumbly. Press crust into 9 in. spring form pan.
Filling- Blend all ingredients except for oil until smooth. Then add oils and continue to blend until will combined.
Swirl- Blend all ingredients except for oil until smooth. Then add oils and continue to blend until will combined.
Assembly- Pour filling into crust and refrigerate for about 20 minutes until slightly firm. Pour berry mixture on top and swirl in using a chopstick or another thin utensil being careful not to disturb the crust. Chill for an hour before serving.
I haven’t decided where I will take this recipe. I am planning on going to the potluck in Gainesville on Tuesday, but I am one of the speakers at a women’s natural healing seminar. I guess I will decide on Sunday which place I will bring this.
I am getting closer to the end of this project. I am hoping to continue making recipes everyday, even if it’s just a smoothie, but I am going to hopefully post something at least 2 times a week. I will see what I will do when the Good Lord shows me:)
I am off to go to my parent’s house. The boys helped me clean and now they want to go visit Grandma and Grandpa. Sabby won a trophy yesterday for the longest pass, so I am sure he will want to show Grandma and Grandpa. I am so proud of him. He always gives his best effort. I am so happy for him, when it pays off.
Christian did great in school this year. He just received his report card, and he was pleased with his grades. So now both boys want to know what they get for doing so well this year. Sebastian is going to receive the G by 3 level in Kumon, which is Algebra by 3rd grade. He wants an iPad. I feel like lately they earn something every week and it’s breaking our bank:). They are good kids that never really ask for anything. They know that happiness doesn’t come from buying things. That makes me feel warm and smile on the inside.
“The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 5:32 pm. Add a comment
I planned on making the rest of the recipe from yesterday, but when I am offered to make a dessert, all plans are off and I am going to make the dessert. Meredith sent me 3 new dessert recipes, so I didn’t hesitate to make this recipe. I was good not to eat too much. My family thoroughly enjoyed this recipe, I repeat, THEY ALL LIKED IT! I saved some for the boys for tomorrow and Jason said it was awesome, and he really meant it. I could see it in his eyes. I really love this recipe because it is not completely filled with nut, just a small portion.
I will make this again! Now my Maca is gone, but I am getting more this coming week.
Thanks Meredith for sending this recipe. Ice Cream Ingredients
coconut milk
Cashew, soaked
agave
coconut flakes
Maca
Vanilla
coconut butter
sea salt
Blend all ingredients until smooth. Pour into ice cream maker and follow manufacturer’s instructions.
Yields about 1 quart.
If you decide to get this new recipe book, make this recipe! You will not be disappointed!
Maca is an incredible invigorator — an incredible aphrodisiac. It’s a very powerful food — you can live on it alone for quite some time. It’s one of the highest sources of iron of any food on the earth.~David Wolfe
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 10:21 pm. Add a comment
Just got back from the gym, Dentist, I ate, played Green Day Rock Band (I am totally addicted), now I am on the way to football camp for Sabby. What a jam packed day. I made the spinach wrappers which will go with the complete recipe tomorrow.
Spinach Wrappers Ingredients and directions are the same as Day #261.
Off I go again!
A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after. ~Peter De Vries
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 4:11 pm. Add a comment
June 7, 2010
I just finished the complete recipe. I decided to do it early and get it done so after my class I can relax, or go for a walk or what ever the good Lord wants:)
My class is in a few hours and I am ready with all things frozen, everything ready to be packed into the car and everything soaked. Now off to the gym.
Flan Ingredients
3 cups cashews, soaked 1-2 hours
1/2 cup coconut meat
1/4 cup prepared Irish Moss
1/4 cup juice of sugar snap peas
1/2 t salt
8 large mint leaves
Blend all ingredients in a Vita-mix until very smooth. Pour into lightly oiled flan or custard ramekins and refrigerate for at least 1 hour.
Foam Ingredients
1 cup Macadamia nuts, soaked 1-2 hours
3 cups water
salt
soy lecithin
Blend all ingredients in Vita-mix until smooth; strain through a chinois and reserve.
You spoon the foam from top of mixture and drizzle close to flan, hugging the edges, for garnish. Then sprinkle lime powder.
Jason loves sugar snap peas! I am so happy I found them ORGANIC! The tuile is really fantastic! Very light and flavorful. I am going to make different varieties of these. I think they would be great with the base of flax and squash, but add cinnamon and raisins, and make a dessert or breakfast. Spinach is another alternative I would like to try, for a wrap with veggies on it.
Wow, here comes a light rain, I don’t have to water my garden after all:).
“Life is like a rainbow. You need both the sun and the rain to make its colors appear.”~Unknown
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 9:11 am. Add a comment
I made the lime powder several days ago, so I figured it is time for me to make the Black Sesame Tuile. I love working with Black sesame seeds. They look so exotic to me, almost untouchable. This recipe says to grind them, but the photo in the book appears as if the seeds are not ground, so I didn’t grind them. I like the way they look when they are whole. The photos in this book sometimes look different than the way the directions say to assemble them. I guess I go on my own sometimes, and use my own judgement on what I should do. Since this is my project, I guess that is acceptable. It is so freeing to make up my own RuLes!
Beginning Tuile in the Dehydrator Tuile Ingredients
1/4 cup ground black sesame seeds
1/2 cup flax meal
1/2 cup chopped yellow squash
1 T lemon juice
1 cup water
1 T agave
1/2 t salt
1/4 t coriander seeds
1/2 t cumin
I placed the whole black sesame seeds in a bowl; set aside and blended remaining ingredients in my Vita-mix. I combined all ingredients into the bowl and stirred. Then I spread the mixture onto the Teflex sheets, they are dehydrating now and they will be until tomorrow morning (8 hours). When they are dry but still pliable I will cut them into triangles. Then I will lay them over a rolling pin to give them a bent look and I will dehydrate them more.
Last night I finished the final part of the mango pudding. I am serving the mango pudding and macaroons tomorrow at the class.I put the pudding and kulfi into containers, so it would be easy to serve. The macaroons will be served on the side. I am anxious to see how the class goes. It will be my first one at Skoors and I am so excited to get there and get started!
I was preparing for my class and separating the mango pudding into small cups. I didn’t plan on putting them on the plate that I did, but they all fit, and then I had just enough lids for the cups. I love when that happens. I love the reassurance that I still have “it”. Those things always used to happen to me when I worked at the deli. For example, if I needed salt for a recipe and I only had a little, it always turned out to be just enough, or if I had to package things I would grab just enough containers to package the food. I know it seems foolish, but I was always grateful for the small things that happened. It seems so long ago that I worked there now, funny, how easily someone forgets things when they are not where they once were.
I enjoy my days now with the kids, going to the gym and making lots of raw food in my own kitchen. At first I missed my job, but I love all the blessings that I have and the wonderful things I am able to do!
Off to finish the final touches on the class tomorrow, then off to bed. Goodnight!
James 1:2-4
2Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. 4Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 8:51 pm. Add a comment
An easy recipe to top of the wonderfully rich pudding. I took some to Christian’s Grandma today and she really loved it! She is the one who showed me juicing 15 years ago! It is hard to believe that I have known her that long! Wow! I actually had the same juice for breakfast this morning that she made me so long ago. My morning juice was apple, carrot, parsley, spinach, celery and cucumber. The cucumber is an add in for me. It is great to make more liquid. I am hooked on juicing now. I really love to drink instead of eat this time of year. I don’t juice feast, but I chew less. It is more refreshing!
This recipe is like nothing I have made prior to this project. Kulfi is actually an Indian-style ice cream. Matthew Kenney explains in his book that it is creamier and richer than ice cream. It was originally made with milk from Buffalo, I thought that this little fact was interesting. I have never had Buffalo milk. When I was young, my parents knew 2 Indians who had Beefalo, similar to Buffalo. I tried that meat when I was about 7 years old, but never tried the milk. I remember it was different than cow, and I told my parents that they should sell it in stores. I still remember John and Bev. They had a wolf and so much land for the Beefalo. I always loved to go over there to see the Beefalo and hang out with the wolf. Wow, funny how so many memories have stirred up inside of me since I began writing on this blog. Well enough with my trip down memory lane.
Kulfi Ingredients
coconut oil
agave
coconut meat
white cardomom pods
rose water
All ingredients were blended in the Vita-mix.
I posted the photos from the other day of my red pepper coconut wraps. The basil wraps are another story, well, they turned out crunchy and cracked when I tried to fold them at all, so I just showed the red pepper.
I am off to prepare for my class on Monday. It is my first one at Skoors. It is fun to work for myself, but help others too. I am looking forward to doing the class with Jason. We work good together.
“An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind.”
Mahatma Ghandi
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 8:44 pm. Add a comment
I have made many macaroon recipes during this last year. I really love the smell of these macaroons. They are shaped differently than previous recipes. I had to spread them thin on a Teflex sheet. They turned out pretty with the specks of lime zest among the coconut and almonds. As I was making these, I thought that they would be even better with Macadamia nuts! Making these provoked thoughts of Hawaii in my head. I know Macadamia nuts grow there and the smell of coconut always reminds me of a tropical vacation. I guess that stems from my tanning days in the sun and spreading on Coppertone oil. I always loved the smell. Boy how things have changed, for the better, I no longer lay in the sun for hours, just about 20 minutes a day. I still spread oil on my skin, but it is coconut oil. I still love basking in the sun, and I am fortunate to live in Florida and I can soak up the rays all the time. Maybe I will make these one day with Mac nuts.
Macaroon Ingredients
coconut flakes
almond crumbs
almond flour
sea salt
lime zest
maple syrup
coconut oil
vanilla extract
I mixed all dry ingredients together then added wet ingredients and mixed it up. I spread the mixture out as thin as I could. It is difficult to spread it to 1/2 inch. Now they are in the dehydrator. The macaroon appears very thin in the photo in entertaining in the raw book,mine, however, are not, but they will be very tasty I am sure. I love coconut!
The kids have been asking me all day to go to Grandma and Grandpas house, so I guess I should. I am pretty tired from the exhausting workout today, but it feels so good to exercise. It becomes addicting after I get into it. I can tell my metabolism is kicking in more, it only takes 10 minutes to start sweating on the elliptical compared to my 20 minutes a few months ago. I do sweat easier than I used to. My muscles are loving all the attention;-). It will be fun to do it again tomorrow. I love my iphone, I always listen to youtube during my workouts. My new fave is Trevor Hall’s “KING”. I am looking forward to his new CD release this month. If you want to check him out, here it is!
Well, I am off to make my children happy!
“Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.”~ Henry Ward Beecher
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 7:42 pm. Add a comment
I made the wraps today. It’s been such a busy day, I can’t believe it is already 4:00pm. I wanted to have this complete meal done, but my plans got messed up. I did some blueberry picking today with my family, so it was worth it.
The wraps are in the dehydrator until this evening. I didn’t have beet juice!!! Gosh, what is the deal, I keep forgetting ingredients, this time I made them without! I just sat down to write this and realized that I didn’t put beet juice in the wraps. Well, I did make them before with the beet juice.
I just got back from a long day outside. I went running this morning, I went longer than I have been able to in so long. I ran for 20 minutes:). I know it doesn’t seem like much to some of you runners out there, but I have to say, I am feeling good! Then I wanted to get the kids out of the house so I decided to go to Crystal River. We went on a hike and found blackberries. TONS OF BLACKBERRIES! I have never seen so many blackberry bushes in one area. The kids had so much fun picking them. It was a very hot day, so I stood in the shade with our dog. He was so hot, he is black, and he was crying to go into the shade. We had a great day. Then after our hike we came home to eat and then Sabby had baseball practice. His first All stars game is tomorrow.
I made a quick part of this recipe. I made the truffle cream. I have to finish this meal soon, before the almond paste goes bad. It still smells fine, but I know it needs to be eaten soon. I am picking up my coconuts tomorrow and then I will make the wrappers. I have made these before, but I ate them without making everything else. I just ate them with lots of veggies. So I have to make them again so I have the complete meal.
Cream Ingredients
cashews
water
truffle oil
raw agave
salt
Blend all ingredients in a Vita-mix until smooth.
Super simple and delicious. I can’t wait to make the wrappers tomorrow with the baby greens. We will have a nice dinner tomorrow before Sabby’s game.
A vigorous five-mile walk will do more good for an unhappy but otherwise healthy adult than all the medicine and psychology in the world. ~Paul Dudley White
Posted 15 years, 5 months ago at 7:36 pm. Add a comment
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