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Winter Squash Pancakes

    Winter Squash Pancakes

    Vegan, GF, Refined Sugar free
    Happily serves 4

    ALL ORGANIC INGREDIENTS
    PANCAKES
    1 cup Cooked and smashed winter squash
    1/3 cup cashew cream or vegan cream cheese
    2 large eggs (or flax egg)
    1/2 cup coconut yogurt
    3/4 teaspoon sea salt
    A dash black pepper
    1 teaspoon baking powder
    1 cup all-purpose GF flour
    coconut oil for frying pan

    TO FINISH:
    Crispy Sage Brown Butter:
    2 to 3 tablespoons butter
    A pinch or two of salt
    A few fresh sage leaves

    In a large bowl, whisk squash, yogurt, eggs, cheese, salt, pepper and baking powder until smooth.
    Add flour and stir until just combined. Batter will be thick.

    Heat skillet medium-low to medium.  Coat the bottom with coconut oil, and spoon in pancake batter,  flatten the pancake slightly.
    Cook until golden brown underneath, flip and cook until golden brown.
    Lower your heat, if it’s cooking too fast. If you’re worried pancakes have not cooked in the center, you can finish them for 10 minutes in a 250 degrees oven.

    To finish, wipe out frying pan and add butter (or you can use coconut oil), a Dash of salt and sage leaves, heating over medium heat. The sage leaves will crisp and the butter will brown in a minute or two so keep a close watch on it. Pour leaves and butter over pancakes

    To roast squash: For butternut or kabocha, roast it face-down on an a baking sheet sprinkled with coarse salt at 375 for 40 to 50 minutes, until tender.

    Pumpkin Cornbread

      PUMPKIN CORNBREAD

      Vegan, GF, Dairy Free

      Happily Serves 8

      ALL ORGANIC INGREDIENTS

      ¾ cup almond or coconut milk, room temperature

      ¼ cup Coconut vinegar

      1 cup cornmeal

      1 cup GF All purpose flour (can sub quinoa flour)

      ½ teaspoon Himalayan Sea salt

      ½ teaspoon cinnamon

      ½ teaspoon baking soda

      ½ cup softened coconut oil

      cup brown sugar, packed (can sub coconut sugar)

      1 can pumpkin puree or 2 cups fresh pumpkin

      Preheat oven to 375 degrees F and prepare a 9 in cast iron skillet (or square pan) with cooking spray.

      Stir together nut milk and vinegar. Let sit for 10 minutes while you prep the rest of the ingredients.

      Whisk together your dry ingredients: cornmeal, whole wheat pastry flour, salt, cinnamon, and baking soda and set aside.

      Whisk together coconut oil and granulated sugar until well combined.

      Whisk in pumpkin puree.

      Stir in almond milk/vinegar mixture.

      Now stir in your dry ingredients.

      Mix until just combined.

      Don’t over mix, or you’ll end up with tough bread!

      Bake for about 25-35 minutes, or until an inserted toothpick comes out clean.

      Remove from the oven, let cool slightly and then serve immediately 

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      10 Reasons to Eat Clean

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        Which one takes longer and really makes you slow down? Eating clean also means eating with purpose and savoring food. That means a better relationship with everything from radishes and radicchio to red velvet cupcakes (which you’ll no longer crave).

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        See also 9 Amazing Brain Boosters to Add to Your Diet.

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        There’s an oft-quoted statistic that food travels approximately 1,500 miles from farmer to consumer in the United States. By eating seasonal and local foods, as recommended by Clean Eating, you can help reduce your carbon footprint. As the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition reported in 2003, “The major threat to future survival and to US natural resources is rapid population growth”and “the lacto-ovo vegetarian diet is more sustainable than the average American meat-based diet.

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