Praying you and yours have a Blessed Thanksgiving!
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a couple days early. I thought you might like these before Friday this week.
Yams and Pumpkin are 2 of our favorite fall foods – and “musts” on our Thanksgiving table.
I grew up on the typical “Thanksgiving Sweet Potatoes”, yams with maple syrup (fake, “pancake” syrup) and marshmallows. I never knew how sweet the potatoes were by themselves, not needing any further sweetening to make them GREAT!
Freedom & Simplicity™ Mashed Yams
We bake them, pull the skins off, and mash them with butter and a bit of sea salt and pepper. A sprinkle of nutmeg on the top for festive serving finishes this off. Put them in the oven in a glass casserole dish to heat through. What could be easier? YUMMY!
Pumpkin Pie is a must for Thanksgiving. (We love Pumpkin Bars too, but I’ll save that recipe for another day.) This pie can be cooked in a crust or crust-less for a Pumpkin custard.
Lisa’s Good for You-Naturally!™ Pumpkin Pie
Crust:
Mix together, just until mixed. Don’t over mix or over handle. Form into a ball, roll out – on pastry sheet, or between wax paper. Place in pie pan. Trim edges. Pour in filling.
What to do with the leftover crust dough? Make Nothin’s. I made these with my mom when I was little. Roll out the leftover dough, cut into strips – aprox. 1/2-3/4″ wide, 3-5″ long. Brush with melted butter, sprinkle with cinnamon and Coconut Sap “Sugar” or Sucanat (yes, it was with sugar in the old days.) Put on a Baking Stone or cookie sheet, and bake at 400° approx. 10 minutes.
Filling:
Beat eggs. Add other ingredients and mix well, with mixer or in blender. Pour into pie shell (if desired.) Bake at 400° for 45 – 55 min. until knife inserted halfway between edge and center comes out clean. If crust is browning too fast, cover with silicone pie crust shield. Pie will set more as it cools.
If you have to have whipped cream on top, make it real whipping cream (or full fat coconut milk whipped cream), add a few drops of real vanilla, and drizzle of honey or maple syrup and beat until peaks form. Chill bowl and beaters before whipping. Stop beating before cream turns to butter, soft peaks are better than breaking it down into butter.
Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!
For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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And we all know (at least in America) what that means – a tendency toward not only (if even) gratefulness for our blessings, but also towards gluttony. The “rich man’s delicacies” are not only a danger, but a reality, in many of our celebrations. Too many rich foods, too many cooked foods, too many “deceptive foods”. But most will say, “I’ll start a diet ‘tomorrow’.” “I’ll ‘be good’ after Thanksgiving – well at least until a week or 2 before Christmas.” or “Oh well, it’s the holidays. I’ll eat what a want for the next month, but then I’ll crack down.”
Our celebrations don’t have to be void of feasting (that is not gluttony), but neither do we have to have a defeatist mentality, and succumb to a month of gorging ourselves with deceptive foods. Enjoy reasonable amounts of your holiday foods on Thanksgiving (or any other “feast” day), but then help your body recover, by consuming a large, if not total, portion of your foods as living, raw foods, for the next several days. It would be a good idea also to get on a fiber cleanser to help “clean house” and get rid of accumulated wastes that have built up in your body.
On the holiday:
On the day (or several days) after – (it takes 3 days of only raw foods to neutralize 1 steak meal; I’m sure 1 Thanksgiving meal is no better than equivelent to that):
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Apple Cinnamon Phi and Cranberry Phi are perfect flavors for the holidays! PhiPlus is a good every day snack! (PhiPlus and Cranberry Phi are certified organic. Apple Cinnamon Phi contains many organic ingredients, but is not completely organic.)
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Have a blessed – and healthy Holiday!
Order your BarleyLife, Phi and other Wholefood Farmacy foods today and I’ll try to get you a couple recipes for Thanksgiving by tomorrow – rather than waiting until Friday.
For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Planning
Here’s our Thanksgiving Menu. An optimal menu? No. A traditional menu for generations of our family? Yes. Made mostly Good for You-Naturally!™ (foods I don’t prepare are out of my hands) 🙂 – just way too much cooked food. (See tomorrow’s post for help in balancing this.)
What is not “traditional” on our family’s menus has been raw veggie salads. I have added, in my contributions to the meal, a “Green” Salad of some sort over the last several years (whether others eat much of it or not.)
I’ve made Spinach Salads – Spinach Strawberry is good, but strawberries are pretty high, if available at all. I’ve made an orange and spinach salad – hmm, wonder where that recipe is? It went over well. I’ve been looking at a Red Leaf Lettuce and Orange Salad, but thinking perhaps I will make Pear and Butter Lettuce this year.
Remember to include your “greens” in your Thanksgiving Menu! and Count Your Blessings!
For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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It’s been a busy week, so I’ll just give you a VERY SIMPLE Snack Recipe this week – but so YUMMY! and Good for You-Naturally!™
Apple Wedges and Almond Butter
My dc LOVE this, (and me too,) – and even dipping the apples (or other fruits or veggies) into non-homemade, organic, nut only butters works – peanut, cashew, almond, or sesame could be used.
Almond Butter:
Fit Champion Juicer with blank for “homogenizing” foods (rather than juicing). Turn on and pour in Raw Almonds. Push through with food pusher. Feed slowly for a creamy nut butter, faster for chunky.
If butter is too dry, more like almond meal, sitr in just a bit of olive oil, or put through Champion again with just a bit of olive oil. You can also make nut butters in a blender or food processor if you don’t have a Champion.
Tip: The natural oil in your almonds will flow better, making a creamier butter, if your almonds are a bit warm, not cold from the fridge. I usually warm mine up just a bit on the dehydrator, set at 110°. You don’t want to heat them higher, or you will destroy the enzymes.
Slice Apples, or other fruits or veggies, and dip/scoop into the butter, and eat. Bananas aren’t the best scoopers since they are softer, but you can still put a hunk of nut butter on them for a great, yummy snack or lunch.
You got a hankerin’ for chocolate? It’s not exactly the same, but carob is a Good for You-Naturally!™ substitute. Stir some vegan, malt sweetened carob chips into the nut butter before scooping onto the fruit, for an occasional treat.
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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Not my normal type post today. Not a normal day. Today’s our baby’s birthday. She was born 18 years ago.
Today’s a dreary snow flurry day, but no bitter cold blizzard like 18 years ago.
18 years ago I went to vote that night when I came home. Today we know the results of the election of 2 days ago. 18 years ago we lost our gubernatorial seat, and they also retained the senate seat. This year we kept our senate and house seats, but lost our Presidential seat.
18 years ago she would have come home to 4 older sisters. Today she’d be living with 4 younger brothers, plus 2 younger sisters. But she still wouldn’t have been able to vote yet – missing it by 2 days would have been a ‘bummer’ I’m sure.
18 years ago our baby was born – and died, 3 hours after she was born. Today I visited her grave, for the 18th time on this day.
We’d be taking her out for dinner for her 18th birthday tonight. It would be quite the celebration. The guys aren’t here tonight – off shopping at Cabela’s. I think we girls will go celebrate – her who has gone before us.
Happy Birthday Mykayah!
I recently got an email about baby carrots being dipped in an anti-microbial, chlorine solution, to minimize contamination, "sanitize" our food. True?
Yes, this one is. The claim is they rinse the chlorine off so that makes it "safe." Are ALL baby carrots chlorine immersed? I don’t know. Are other veggies? Yes.
It’s best to just cut your own carrot sticks, as well as other chopped veggies, and avoid both "contaminated" cut-and-packaged vegetables and the chlorine, a known carcinogen.
Avoid chlorine in your drinking water too – and your showering water. Get an RO filtering system for your drinking water, and a shower filter.
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For Me and My House ~ At Jesus’ feet,
Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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Real Life Good for You-Naturally! Menu Planning
Today is a REAL Menu, not a great Menu Plan. 🙂 On a hectic, non-planned day, this is what you may find to eat around here.
Breakfast:
Lunch:
Snack:
Supper:
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Lisa @ Me and My House ~ Discipleship for Life!
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