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Quick and easy recipes for the busy home cook.

Chocolate avocado pudding

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Chocolate and advacado are probably not two things that you would instinctually put together. In fact when I told my husband that I was going to make a chocolate pudding using an advacado as a base his response was, “Eww..that sounds disgusting,” insert sour face here! I can’t say that I blame him for that response, you’re probably thinking the same thing! But trust me when I tell you that this pudding is one of those things that you have to taste to understand. Once you taste it, you WILL be a convert! With each 4 ounce serving of this pudding you’re getting about 2 grams of protein, 5 grams of fiber, and putting a dent in your daily Omega 3 and 6 intake. However, The absolute best part is that you can eat something that tastes sinfully delicious, but that is totally good for you! 

Here is what you need:

1 + 1/2 ripe avocado
5 Tablespoons of either quality cocoa powder (100% pure cacao)/ or 1/3 cup of a good quality chocolate bar (60% pure cacao) which you need to melt or shave.
5 tablespoons of  pure maple syrup, ( you can substitute honey, Agave, or sweetener of your choice)
1/4 cup  milk of your choice, I used Almond milk. You can also use water.
2 tsp pure vanilla extract or essence

Equipment you need:
Blender, or food processor

Directions:
Half avocado, discard pit, and remove flesh:

Place flesh of the avocado, cocoa powder, sweetener, milk, and vanilla in the blender/ food processor:
Blend until smooth. If you like a thinner pudding add more milk/water


Pour into a dish:



Garnish with whatever you like and serve! If you like it cold, you can chill before serving, but once you taste this, i doubt that you’ll want to!!

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Fruit roll-up’s it is!

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We’ve managed to eat most of the strawberries I got from the farmers market. However, we still have 2 baskets left. My daughter loves all things that involve fruit leather, and I haven’t made her any for quite some time. I normally dry really ripe pears and pineapples for her, but these strawberries will be a nice change! Strawberry fruit roll up’s are so simple to make. You only need one ingredient strawberries! Equipment you’ll need for this recipe: A blender, parchment paper, and an oven.

Slice the tops off the strawberries and place them in the blender:

Blend until smooth:
Pour out onto a piece of parchment paper
 Smooth out with a spatula
Make sure that the mixture is spread out evenly
Place in a dehydrator, or in your oven at 130 degrees F, or the lowest setting on your oven for 4-6 hours. Be careful not to let this over cook or you’ll give a whole new meaning to the term fruit leather!
Once it’s done remove from the parchment paper roll, cut, and enjoy!!
                                                             
What is your favorite fruit to dry? 

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Fresh Strawberry Tart topped with Agave sweetened Coconut whipped cream

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Today at the farmers market I stumbled upon the most deliciously sweet strawberries that I’ve tasted this entire season. The lady selling them wouldn’t sell me less than 6 baskets. Since I couldn’t leave without these sweet wonderments, I took them all. Now I’m left to figure out what to do with all of these strawberries. Try as she might, my daughter can’t eat them all…and she loves strawberries! My husband will not eat them unless I trim them for him and put them on a plate…Not gonna happen.  So as I was sitting here, I thought, how about a strawberry tart?!! Sounds yummy enough, but how about if I up the anty and do a strawberry tart with a nice cinnamon crumble topping!! My mouth is watering just thinking of it. Motherhood is calling me to duty so I don’t really have the time to make a pie dough from scratch…as I’m typing this my daughter is pulling at my leg…but I don’t want to give up on the idea of the strawberry tart with that delicious cinnamon crumble topping. So here’s what I came up with:

A strawberry tart with a cinnamon-oat-crumble bottom, topped with Agave sweetened coconut cream! 
Trust me when I say that this is as yummy as it looks! My daughter couldn’t get enough of it! She ate this one by herself…yup mommy of the year right here!

The ingredients are simple:  1/2 cup of unbleached flour, 1/2 cup of oats…I used 1 packet of plain instant oatmeal, it was all I had… 4 tablespoons, or half a stick of cold butter, cut and cubed, a dash of cinnamon, and 1/2 cup of brown sugar, although I used less because I think one could always do with a little less sugar than is called for in recipes. Place all ingredients into a food processor an pulse until it looks like this:


Place this mixture into a foil lined, or parchment lined baking pan and bake until it browns:


I sliced my berries while it cooled and whipped my chilled coconut cream. If you can’t find coconut cream, (Hint: I found a can at Trader Joe’s) then use whipped cream. Use what you have it’ll make your life a whole lot easier.   Top the crumble bottom with the fresh berries

Slice, add cream, and serve!  The next time I make this I’m going to use almond flour. Using almond flour will be a nice healthy twist to this, and it will be great for all my friends on a gluten free diet.. From start to finish this dessert took me 25 minutes to make, and that was with my 16 month old daughter pulling on my leg almost the entire time.  This is definitely a lazy girl dessert that you’ll want to make again, and again! Now what to do with the rest of the strawberries? Any ideas? What are some fun and yummy things that you make with strawberries?



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