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Healthy and Easy Apple Pie Recipe
Craving – an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing. A food craving is an intense desire to eat a specific food as opposed to normal hunger for food. Specific food cravings are generally found in people that are on restricted diets. Another thought on cravings is that the body realizes it’s missing a specific vitamin or mineral and craves the food it knows contains it. A-ha, my body is craving vitamin sweet! So that explains my raging urge for something sweet. I can only eat fruit for so long before my body finally says: “Are you kidding me with this bowl of sliced apples? Do you think I’m stupid? Do you think I can’t tell the difference between an f’ing apple and a piece of cake?” So as I stumble around my kitchen and find odds and ends of Christmas treats, I feel rather virtuous as I toss them out, but deep down I know that I want to dig into them and stuff them down my pie hole. Besides, if no one’s around who’s gonna know I slipped up on my detox?
I hunkered down over my cookbooks and did a little research on the internet to come up with a healthy apple pie recipe (because I have a bushel of apples in my kitchen at the moment) that I could eat, while on my detox, and not feel like I just set myself back to square one. It wasn’t easy…no sugar, gluten free, no eggs, blah blah blah. I conquered the crust by making it an almond crust (nut crusts aren’t just for cheesecakes anymore). Plus, almonds work really well with apples. Baking the almond crust gives it more of a firm crust texture than a traditional nut crust like you would find on a cheesecake. The filling was a bit easier to come up with because apples already have a good amount of sweetness to them, so it’s really more a matter of enhancing their flavor. Craig, of course, was rolling his eyes as I told him we were going to have dessert. He was expecting a plate of fruit and wasn’t exactly looking forward to it. As the aroma’s began wafting from the kitchen he started perking up and asking me what I was cooking. Being the snarky bitch that I am, I simply told him dessert. He went into the kitchen but couldn’t see into the oven to figure out what was in there. It was driving him nuts and I was totally enjoying watching him try to figure it out. This apple pie has a couple of benefits that you don’t ordinarily get with a pie. One, it’s an easy apple pie recipe and two, it’s a healthy apple pie (no, that’s not an oxymoron). It is possible to take favorite recipes and make them healthier. Remember the healthy cream sauce from a few months ago? Granted, pie has a few more benefits than most desserts, because it’s full of fruit, but I wouldn’t exactly classify it as a health food. This easy apple pie is truly a healthy recipe. 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While AIDS and std’s over the years may have curtailed some of the sexual escapades to levels below the 60′s, not much has changed some 50 years later. But does feminism mean going out an banging anyone you like whenever you like? Or is feminism more about knowing that you could screw someone and turn them completely inside out while not physically acting on it? I tend to follow Boyd’s reasoning. I think feminism is more about having the choice and deciding what you would like to do rather than feeling like you are required to do it. How about you? My Man's Belly Healthy and Easy Apple Pie Recipe Makes 4 individual pies or 1 9 inch pie Ingredients Crust 1 Cup Almond Flour 1 Cup Coconut Flour 1/4 Cup Agave Nextar 6 Tablespoons Coconut Oil Filling 4 Cups Peeled and Sliced Apples (loosely packed) 3/4 Cup Apple Juice (I used freshly juiced apples) 1/2 Cup Brown Rice Syrup 2 Tablespoons Lemon Juice 1/2 Teaspoon Guar Gum 1/2 Teaspoon Ground Cinnamon 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Nutmeg 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Cloves 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Ginger 1/4 Teaspoon Ground Allspice 1/2 Cup Pomegranate Arils Directions Crust Preheat oven to 325 degrees Farenheit. Mix all ingredients in a medium size bowl until thoroughly combined. Divide mixture between individual pie pans (or pour into single 9″ pan) and press mixture on to bottom and up sides of pan. Make sure that crust is even in thickness. Prick the crust, that is on the bottom of the pan, several times with a fork. Place pie pans on a baking sheet and bake for 20 minutes or until crust is evenly browned. Remove from oven to cool. Filling In a 2 quart saucepan, over medium high heat, add all of the ingredients EXCEPT the guar gum and the pomegranate arils. (Those will be added later.) Continue to cook, and stir, until the apples begin to soften and the juice is reduced by half. The amount of time this will take depends on how thick you cut your apples. Once the apples reach the texture you are looking for and the juices have reduced, lightly sprinkle the guar gum over the top of the mixture and stir thoroughly. Do not just drop this in directly from the spoon in one big clump. If you do this, you will probably end up with a big blob of congealed mess in the middle of your apple mixture. This thickening agent is far more potent than cornstarch and will thicken on contact. So sprinkle lightly and stir. Once stirred in and you see that your mixture has thickened, remove from heat. Let sit for 10 minutes then stir in the arils. Assembly Spoon the mixture into the pie shell. I topped mine with chopped pecans, but you could use chopped almonds or walnuts or even nothing at all. Serve related searches : Healthy
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