Raw Strawberry Cheesecake

Here is another thing we made with our friends while up north. This was so yummy, everyone was raving about it!

Raw Strawberry Cheesecake

1 1/2c. cashews

2T. honey

2T coconut oil

1/2c. walnuts

2T. dried cranberries or raisins

1/2 c. raw macadamia nuts

1/4c. lemon juice

1/2t. vanilla

1/4t. salt

Cover the cashew in water and soak for 3 hours or over night.

Grease the bottom and sides of an 8in. pan with coconut oil. Process walnuts, cranberries, and 1/2c. of cashews in a blender, until mixture begins to stick together. Press into the greased pan. Chill 30min. or over night. Puree the drained remaining cashews, macadamia nuts, lemon juice, 2T. coconut oil, 2T. honey, vanilla and salt, and 1 1/2T. water. Process for 5min. or till smooth and creamy. Spoon cashew mixture over crust, spread evenly. Freeze 1 hour before serving. Thaw 5min. before topping with fresh slices strawberries. Cut and serve!

Yields: 8 bars.

Spelt Blueberry Muffins

Blueberry Muffins

1 1/2 c. milk

1/2 c. butter, melted

1/2 c. applesauce

2/3c. honey

2 eggs

4 lemons peel grated

2t. vanilla

4c. spelt or whole wheat flour

2T. baking powder

2t. salt

1 1/2 c. fresh or frozen blueberries

Mix the wet ingredients in a large bowl. Add the dry ingredients, then fold in blueberries, reserve 1/2 cup for top. Put into greased muffin tins, sprinkle with remaining blueberries and bake at 375 for 17min.

Yield: 2 dozen muffins

Oatmeal Pudding Bake

Ah, we are back in thte warmer state! We miss our dear friends that we stayed half our time with ( Kathryn and Tara in the picture below the oatmeal) We have tons of fun eating, talking, eating, playing music together, eating, taking picture, eating, taking pictures..........well I guess you figured out that we did lots of eating and taking pictures while we were up there!

Here is the list of new foods we tried while we were up there

Since our friends are Chinese and Dutch, they had a cultural foods for us to try, we throughly enjoyed each one!

The Asian Foods we tried!

Mooshu ( Chinese beef and cabbage you put in a tortilla like wrapper served with plum sauce)
Crispy Duck
Beef Ho Fun (the wide noodles w/ beef)
Chicken w/ black bean sauce
Hot & Sour soup
Egg drop soup
Seafood soup

We also had never tried;

Beets

Jicama

Thieves oil :-)

The Dutch foods we tried

Droppjes (pronounced Dropees – the cat licorice)

Speculaas (spay-cu-lahs - spice cookies)
Hagelslag (ha-hal-slach – throat clearing sound at the end – chocolate sprinkles :-)

Here we are outside in the freezing cold! Smile every one!

Oatmeal Pudding Bake

2 cups rolled oats
2 cups cottage cheese
2 eggs
1 cup milk
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon of cinnamon and nutmeg

Mix together all the ingredients, pour into a greased 9x9in. pan. Bake at 350 for 40min.

We are back in Texas!

Its so good to be sleeping in ones own bed. And cooking in ones own kitchen!................but we really did have alot of fun (and miss) sleeping in while we were in the north!

Miss you Kathryn and Tara!

Hannah and Esther

Its in!

Yes, the cook book is in! We have a few pics to re -take this week, then a bulk order, and then we'll be ready to ship them out to our customers!

We're out of the state!

Sorry about the lack of posts ya'll............we are out of state for a little over a week, so you won't be seeing much activity here.


The Del Sisters

Great job Es!

Ah! Today was Esther's violin recital with her teacher Matthew Zerweck. All went well, and we all are very proud of her! She performed a Tango by Kreisler.


Love ya sis!
Hannah