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Pecan & Mushroom Stuffed Chard Rolls

Erika — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:45 +0000

The last of my Thanksgiving recipes! I’ve got to get back in the kitchen and get some more recipes cooked up. Lucky for our readers I have quite long list of recipes under development!

When I prepared this recipe I also added a mashed potato-like recipe from Matthew Kenney’s book Everday Raw. It was a nice addition.

Pecan & Mushroom Stuffed Chard Rolls

Mushrooms:
12 oz. baby portobello mushrooms, caps & stems sliced
4 twigs fresh rosemary, “leaves” removed & minced
1 lemon, juiced
1 tsp. mineral rich salt
1/2 tsp. onion powder
1 clove garlic, minced
1/4 cup olive oil

Place all ingredients in a bowl & toss well. Allow to marinate for at least 30 minutes, tossing occasionally. Place marinated mushrooms on a teflex sheet and dehydrate for 3-6 hours.

Pecan Stuffing
2 cups Pecan Pieces
2 cloves garlic
4 twigs fresh rosemary, twigs removed & discarded
1/2 tbs. dried thyme
1/4 cup lemon juice
1 tsp salt
1 bunch parsley, roughly chopped

Place all ingredients into container of a food processor. Pulse until well-combined and a crumbly, stuffing-like consistency is achieved.

Cranberry Chutney

8 oz. fresh cranberries
2 oranges, peeled & chopped
1/2 tbs. Vanilla Powder
1/3 cup apple pulp, leftover from juicing
1 tbs. raw honey or other liquid sweetener
pinch salt

Place all ingredients into a food processor container. Pulse until well combined but still with some texture.

Assembly:
1 bunch chard, washed & de-stemmed
Dehydrated Mushrooms
Pecan Stuffing
Cranberry Chutney

Take a half of a chard leaf and place a small pile of pecan stuffing, a spoonful of cranberry chutney and a sprinkling of dehydrated mushrooms on the top third of the leaf. Roll the leaf carefully around the filling. Do this until you run out of filling.

Pumpkin Pear Trifle with Jarrah Creme

Erika — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 05:22:16 +0000

The greatest thing about Thanksgiving for me isn’t the food leftovers but rather the recipe leftovers! I’ve had recipe posts for over a week gleaned from a days worth of cooking! Often I come home from work and try to come up with some new blog recipe and then after eating it for dinner or dessert I put it up on the blog. Thanksgiving has given me many recipes to be thankful for! Hopefully Hanukkah is as bountiful for recipe creation (can someone say superfood latkes & a new raw donut recipe…with jelly!)!

I digress, tonight I’m sharing the recipe that I made with the leftover pumpkin pulp from the Pumpkin Cheesecake. Having had two meal invitations that day it worked well to have two related desserts. If I had really been multitasking I would have made a double batch of the topping for the cheesecake and used some of it in the trifle. Instead I created a lighter cream that features Jarrah Bee Pollen.

Pumpkin Pear Trifle with Jarrah Creme

Crumble:
2 cups packed pumpkin pulp (leftover from juicing)
1/3 cup Cocopura Coconut Oil
1/3 raw honey or other liquid sweetener
1/4 cup Coconut Flour
1 tsp. Vanilla Powder
1 tsp. cinnamon
pinch of salt
1/2 cup Pecan pieces

Combine all ingredients except pecans in a food processor, process until well-combined. Add pecans and pulse until well combined. Take mixture and crumble it onto a teflex sheet. Dough should be around bite sized pieces. Dry in dehydrator until quite dry, soe moistness is the middle is nice but the outside should be dry. This will take between 6 and 12 hours.

Jarrah Creme
1 1/2 cup coconut milk (made from thai young coconuts or Coconut Flakes)
1/4 cup raw honey or other liquid sweetener
1 lemon, juiced
1 cup macadamia nuts
1/2 tbs Vanilla Powder
1/2 cup Coconut Oil
2 tbs. Jarrah Bee Polle
pinch mineral rich salt

Add all ingredients into a high-speed blender and blend until smooth. Allow to set in freezer while you assemble the rest of the trifle.

Assembly
6 extremely ripe D’Anjou pears; peeled, quartered & sliced
1 lemon, juiced
1/2 tbs. Vanilla Powder
Pumpkin crumble
Jarrah Creme

Combine pear slices, lemon juice and vanilla powder and toss gently in a bowl.

In a small trifle bowl place 1/2 of the pear mixture along the bottom. Add half of the pumpkin mixture next and then half of the creme. Repeat this order with the remaining ingredients. Allow the mixture to sit for a few hours in the refrigerator at least for the layers to settle together.

Wednesdays Blog: Mushroom & Pecan Stuffed Chard Rolls

Goji Cranberry Sauce

Erika — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:35:38 +0000

Thanksgiving has come and gone but I made lots of yummy recipes to share. Most of them are not too Thanksgiving-y. Goji Cranberry Sauce at first glance is an exception to that statement. This intensely magenta sauce though is very versatile and super nutrient dense.

I attended not one but two Thanksgiving gatherings last week and I brought this to the more “traditional” of the gatherings. I did partake of some heavenly fire roasted yams but the bulk of my meal was a lovely raw onion bread topped with a lovely kale salad and a hefty dollop of this sauce. One of my hosts declared, “This tastes like SweetTarts!” after she tasted the sauce.

Anyhow, my point is, don’t relegate this cranberry sauce to your thanksgiving table. Happily enjoy it throughout the cranberry season!

Goji Cranberry Sauce

2 tbs. Irish Moss, powdered
1/2 cup of water
1 cup goji berries
1 1/2 cups fresh squeezed orange juice
12 oz. fresh cranberries
1/2 tsp. Vanilla Powder
1 2″ knob ginger, grated
stevia to taste (orange flavored works nicely)

Combine Irish Moss Powder & water and set aside. Soak goji berries in orange juice for 5 minutes. Combine Irish Moss mixture, gojis & juice with remaining ingredients in a high powered blender. Blend on high until smooth. Store in a glass jar and allow to thicken over night.

This will not “gel” like a traditional cranberry sauce. It will be a thick but pour-able consistency. Delicious with raw, wilted greens.

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