Pumpkin Pie Recipe....

THANKSGIVING PRAYER

  Thanks be to God for all we hold dear,

and may we remember what that is.

For all my dear friends who ask for recipes:  Bless you!

Pumpkin Pie Filling  (or Pudding)
1 (15 oz.) can organic pumpkin
1/2 cup cashews
1/2 cup almonds
1 (14 oz.) can coconut milk (like Thai Kitchen)
3/4 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/4 tsp. ground ginger
1/4 tsp. ground cloves
1/2 tsp. sea salt

1/8 tsp. powdered stevia extract
 
Blend cashews and almonds in a food processor.   Add about 1 cup of the pumpkin puree and the coconut milk and blend for five minutes.
Add remaining pumpkin and other ingredients.  May need to pour into a larger bowl. Stir. Pour into a nut crust.   Refrigerate for about 3 hours or until set.  Or freeze and serve as a frozen dessert.

Nut Crusts

2 cups raw cashews (or other nuts) chopped to crumbs in a food processor.

Add 1 tablespoon vanilla.  Blend until thoroughly mixed.  Press into 9" pie plate.

                                          or

2 cups pecans or walnuts, 1/2 cup soaked dates, dash of sea salt.

Blend in a food processor until thoroughly mixed.  Press into 9" pie plate.

HAPPY THANKSGIVING! 

got coconut milk?

Want a great food to feed kids ~ especially allergic kids?  Try the products from coconut.  Regular grocery stores are now selling much more coconut milk, coconut "cream" and coconut oil.  It's miraculous stuff.  Coconut oil is the best oil for cooking and it's great for massaging into your skin.  I spread it on muffins and eat it raw!  I use (Thai Kitchen) canned coconut milk (more like cream) to make chocolate candy, cake and brownies.   I use it to make fruit salad with coconut flakes.  It can be thinned and used in any recipe that requires a milk product!  (With a snub to The Idaho Dairyman's Association, it won't make you SICK!)  

See The Truth About Coconut   PDF Version  

http://www.coconutresearchcenter.org/article10013.htm

And for those of us who are "getting up there," consider coconut as brain food.  The brain needs lots of saturated fat and coconut oil may be the best saturated fat available!  (See Stop Alzheimer's Now by Dr. Bruce Fife.)   Is the epidemic of Alzheimer's a result of the "low-fat diet" we grew up on?    Hmm....

This recipe is my candy:

CHOCOLATE CASHEW COCONUT BALLS

Mix:
1/2 cup cocoa powder (may use part carob powder)
1/2 cup Thai Kitchen Coconut Milk (canned)
1/2 cup cashew nut butter
sprinkle powdered stevia extract to sweeten

Roll into balls and roll balls in unsweetened coconut flakes.  Refrigerate or freeze.  Makes 15 balls.

Granny On Gambling

Gambling?  Yes!   Now in Grocery Stores Near You! 

Recent new study shows that MRSA is found in 47% of meats sold in grocery stores.  This is not contamination from human sources.  It comes free with the beef, turkey, pork and chicken!  (Maybe it won't affect you, as the study was done only in Chicago, Los Angeles, Flagstaff, Fort Lauderdale and Washington D.C.)  However, if you still want to gamble just walk across the store to the pharmacy.  Step right up, folks!  Flu season is upon us!  Get your flu shots here!

You may be one of the lucky ones whose body can tolerate in injection of eggs, formaldehyde, thimerosal (mercury) and sodium deoxycholate!  (Causes cell death and symptoms such as burning, swelling and redness.  Also shown to weaken the blood-brain barrier and subsequently activate seizures.")  As a bonus, there are six formulas to choose from this year:   Affluria  contains some of the ingredients above plus Polymyxin B  (an antibiotic) and beta-propiolactone (which Wikepedia says "is reasonably expected to be a human carcinogen.")  Fluvarix has much the same list plus hydrocortisone.  FluLaval has many of the same ingredients.  FluMist Nasal Spray adds monosodium glutamate to the mix.  However, I am sure that if you ask your doctor he will tell you that all of this is perfectly safe--so go ahead and spin that roulette wheel!   Shudder...

My mind keeps going back to what Ann Wigmore's granny told her:
     "Remember....your precious bloodstream was sealed by the Almighty and no man, no matter who, has the right to push into its precious contents, with a needle or otherwise, any drug or poison.  Avoid such contamination as you would the plague."

And to the words of another wise person:
     "...know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God..."      (I Corinthians 6:19)