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Friday, January 13th, 2012
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Raspberry Pistachio Thumbprints
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Recipe type: Dessert
Author: Crofters Food
Prep time: 15 mins
Cook time: 18 mins
Total time: 33 mins
Serves: 6-8
- Place butter in a large bowl.
- Using a wooden spoon gradually beat in sugar until creamy.
- Gradually stir in flour just until mixed.
- Preheat oven to 300ºF (150ºC).
- Place pistachios in a small bowl.
- Pinch off about 1 tbsp dough and form into a ball.
- Lightly roll in pistachios.
- Place on an ungreased baking sheet.
- Repeat with remaining dough, placing 1 inch apart until sheet is filled.
- Make and indent in the centre of each using your finger.
- Bake in centre of preheated oven edges are golden, 15 to 18 minutes.
- Remove cookies to a cooling rack.
- Just before serving, fill each cookie with 1/2 tsp of raspberry jam.
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Tuesday, December 20th, 2011
Living Harvest Chocolate Truffles
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Recipe type: Dessert
Author: Living Harvest
Prep time: 20 mins
Total time: 20 mins
Serves: 20
- 4-6 Meedjol Dates (soak first and extract seeds)
- 1 cup of raw almond butter
- cups cashew (run through a nut grinder)
- 2 TBS Tempt Vanilla Spice Protein Powder (you will use more to dust truffles with later)
- Pinch of sea salt
- tsp vanilla extract
- 1 TBS chia seeds
- 2 TBS cocoa powder (or carob, raw cocoa powder)
- Place all ingredients in a food processor or Vitamix and blend. It may take a while to fully blend but when it does it should like something like a Larabar. This mixture will also be kind of warm which doesn’t work for rolling into little balls. I recommend putting it in the fridge for a few minutes.
- Next, on a plate or paper towel sprinkle a good portion of the protein powder with a dash of salt. Make into 1” balls and roll into the protein powder mix. Serve as is or add a chocolate coating:
- In a small bowl mix 2 TBS coconut oil, 3 TBS cocoa powder and 1-2 TBS Agave nectar to taste, you can also substitute a few drops of stevia liquid.
- Dip each of the truffles into this mix and set in the refrigerator for roughly 10 minutes and serve. These can also be stored covered in the refrigerator. We experimented with freezing the truffles and they still tasted wonderful. You should have about 20 truffles.This recipe is pretty fool proof. You can even add coconut flakes, use plain protein powder and substitute the vanilla extract with peppermint to make Protein Peppermint Patties. Raw foodists can play with various nut or seed butters, add goji berries or cacao nibs for extra crunch.
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Monday, December 19th, 2011
Recipe type: Dessert
Author: Copyright by Terese Allen for Organic Valley
Prep time: 1 hour
Cook time: 45 mins
Total time: 1 hour 45 mins
Serves: 8
Kwanzaa is the African-American celebration of culture which runs from December 26 to New Year’s Day. Each day families light a candle and discuss one of seven principles of living: unity, self-determination, responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity and faith. At the end of the week there is a festive party with dancing, music, cultural readings, and, many delicious heritage foods–like this classic sweet potato pie.
- 3 cups sweet potatoes, mashed
- 4 tablespoons Organic Valley Butter, melted
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 3 Organic Valley Eggs
- 1 cup Organic Valley Original or Vanilla Soy Milk (or Organic Valley Half & Half)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 unbaked 9-inch pie crust
- Preheat oven to 350°. Combine mashed sweet potatoes, butter and sugar. Beat in eggs one at a time. Stir in half-and-half or soy milk, butter, vanilla, and seasonings. Pour into pie shell. Bake until toothpick inserted near center comes out clean, 45-55 minutes. Cool before serving.
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