Tasty Treats: Sweet Potato Pudding and More Christmas Cookies
Written by Joanne on December 7, 2008 – -by Tera Warner
Sweet Potato Dream Pudding
I was thinking I should steam some sweet potatoes for the kids, when I started to feel a bit defiant! “I’m not steaming anything!” I said to myself. I pulled out the grater, and started to…
…grate a big, fat sweet potato. Then, I put the grated sweet potato in my food processor. After which point, I added:
1 dash of vanilla
a sprinkle of cinnamon
2 Tablespoons coconut butter
1 big handful of raisins (or dates, if that’s what you have).
Then I whipped and whizzed the ingredients together in my super Blendtec blender. It make a yummy, creamy sweet potato pudding and my daughter just loooved it! I played around with it and did layers of sweet potato pudding and sliced bananas. Then I decorated the top with raspberries, just for fun. The kids ate quite a lot of it and it was requested the next morning as a healthy way to start the day before school! Enjoy
“Anything Goes Into the Food Processor With Bananas” Cookies
I don’t know how this happened… perhaps it was a moment of divine intervention, but these cookies were a huge hit. My daughter, Mika, said,
“Mom, these cookies were fabulous. I took one bite, and then as the tastes stayed in my mouth after I swallowed, I just said to myself, ‘Oooooh yeah! Gimme another one of those!’” Here they are:
Ingredients:
I started out with about 4 ripe bananas, and whipped them up in the food processor. I added:
a splash of vanilla
a few pinches of cinnamon
½ cup- 1 cup of shredded coconut.
3 Tablespoons of ground flaxseed
a handful of sunflower seeds
Then I found a bag of about 3 cups oat flakes, and rice flakes, etc. I dumped these in, mixed them all up in a big bowl and then laid them out on the dehydrator trays and “baked” them at about 105 degrees overnight. Throw in a bit of Christmas spiceAhhh… Christmas baking! Just like the good ol’ days.
Lip smackingly yours,
Tera
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By Joanne on Dec 8, 2008
Wow, Tera – those puddings and cookies sound great! I don’t have a dehydrator (and will leave trying the slow oven approach until summer’s over!), but I will definitely give the puddings a try. What a great colour! And I love Mika’s enthusiastic grin!
Jo
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By Tera on Dec 8, 2008
With all that financial planning you do, Woman, it’s time to invest in a dehydrator. I didn’t do it for years and years and I can honestly say it has made a BIG difference in my kids ability to go raw. Now even my ex-husband is onboard. I’d say he’s about 90% right now. Definitely a gluten free vegan and 90% raw. Not bad…. not bad at all.
So put it on your wish list…
Love you,
Tera
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By Joanne on Dec 8, 2008
I hear ya, sista! I keep seeing all those scrummy cookie and cracker recipes and know that my family would love them (a friend has a dehydrator and my girls loved crackers made from it). I really think it will make a difference.
I’m putting it on my ‘will-buy’ list for next year – for after we’ve bought a house!
Thanks for the push!
Love Jo
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By Tami on Dec 10, 2008
I’m still planning on making this pudding with the sweet potato that is sitting on my counter right now. I don’t have a very good grater though so I’ll likely run it through the Champion Juicer on the blank plate. Lately I’ve been using the juicer more for things like that than for juice!
Joanne — I agree with Tera, get a dehydrator. I’m still working on a cracker recipe that my girls (3 and 11) will devour, but the cookies, fruit leather, etc. sure gets eaten up fast. Actually, my husband LOVES the crackers I make even if they are just plain flax crackers. But so far I can’t get the girls to eat them. So I’m in search of a good basic cracker recipe that kids will love, and I would also love something that mimics a graham cracker (all gluten free of course). It has to be relatively easy though if I’m going to make it too often. And my sprouting abilities are still a work in progress so if it requires me to sprout a lot, then it’s not easy.
Soaking I can do, but sprouting I’m still working on.
However my FAVORITE thing about my dehydrator (I invested in the Blendtec blender and Excalibur dehydrator when I decided to really “go raw”) is that it helps me not waste food. I’m not really fond of raw soups and dips that have been stored very long in the refridgerator, so whenever I have some leftover, which is nearly every day, I pour it out onto a teflex sheet and dehydrate it for another day. Then this ties in perfectly with my second favorite things about it — it helps me stay raw, and not hungry, when traveling. That dehydrated soup now can be stashed in my purse (!!!) and taken out and mixed with some warm water when I need a little pick me up. For better mixing it’s best to grind the dehydrated soups to a powder before storing, but I usually just deal with lumpy soup. And you would be surprised at how yummy some dehydrated soups and dips taste just eaten like a cracker (or like “nut cheese” I guess but you just use what you have).
I’m going to have to try the banana cookies in order to have some goodies to take along on our big Christmas road trip. But I have no idea what rice flakes are — do you just grind up rice or is this something special. And I’ll have to replace the oat with buckwheat or something (gluten or rather cross contamination in oats).
MMmmm… now I’m hungry. Which reminds me of the one negative about the dehydrator — all the yummy smells coming from it make me want to eat at night sometimes. But I can deal with it.
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By Christine on Oct 5, 2009
Hi – just new to the site and read Tami’s comment. Have you found a good cracker recipe that your kids will like? I’ve been thru a few with my boys and no luck!
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By M.Charlot on Jan 25, 2011
Lovely recipes. My family love it! Thanks!
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