Jananas

Today I had a long list of ‘to do’s’ and managed to get through most of them (and then some!). One of the big things is playing with our dehydrator and trying out some raw foods. Right now I’m playing with recipes found online, but I have a couple of raw food cook books coming in the mail – I’m excited to try more stuff out!

Today’s adventures were apple chips and raw bread. First picture is the apple chips. Its most of a bag of organic Macintosh apples we picked up over the weekend, peeled and cored and cut into little pieces. These apples weren’t structurally sound, so when I tried to core them they just fell apart into sections. The end result was that I didn’t end up with perfect little apple rings. Rather I have a bunch of smaller pieces. Good news? They all fit into this jar!

Next up is some raw bread – I used this recipe as a baseline. I’m terrible at following recipes, so mine wasn’t totally the same. I ground up golden flax seeds myself instead of using ground flax (didn’t have any around). I substituted a banana for the apple, as I accidentally used all of mine in the above apple chip experiment. Things didn’t grind up as easily as I thought they would – although that’s probably just more about learning how to use our food processor more effectively.

I made myself a sandwich this afternoon using this bread – organic ham (hey, I’m not vegan!), spinach, and dijon mustard. This bread has an awesome wholesome taste and a dry enough texture that it easily passes for what we would normally think of as bread. Although that may be partly because over the last few years I’ve made the switch to organic, whole grain-type breads (you know, the extra small loaf kinds) and this bread is more in line with those.

I’ll definitely be making more of this!

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• Easy Vegan Cupcake Recipe
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