December 22th, 2010
"It's a Wonderful Life!"
On The 9th Day of Christmas,
Live-Food Cookie Fun for Thee...
This is a day late -- had to go Christmas shopping.
Will have Our 10th Day of Christmas, December 23rd, later today!
Deer
livefoodfactorfriends!
The HighJoy Horse &
The Wilderness Woman Want to Share
Cookie Cutter Fun from
Our Hygiene Homestead in The Woods!
COOKIE CUTTER FUN =
Great for Any Time of Year,
but Especially for Christmas!
How long has it been since you made Christmas Cookies? Have you thrown all your cookie cutters out as dreadful symbols of cooked food addiction? I hope not... because such GREAT COOKIE CUTTER FUN is at hand! But it takes some preparation. You must invite the party goers. You must have on hand all the lays-flat live-food ingredients to be cut with the cutters. You must amass and display all the toppings to be used and have cookie platters handy for finished products. THAT'S IT -- THE REST IS UP TO YOUR IMAGINATIONS! ENJOY!
THE SUGGESTED COOKIE CUTTERS: These need to be rather small. Most ideal are the miniature cookie cutters of 1 - 2 inches. You can find these easily at most big department stores and crafts stores and, certainly, in all kitchen supply stores. But probably, you do have a few rather small ones left from back in the day when you or yours cooked with butter, flour, and sugar. Of course, the cutters must be the right size for the lays-flat ingredients you put out!
THE SUGGESTED LAYS-FLAT WHOLE-FOOD, LIVE-FOOD COOKIE FORMULA = any slice of fruit or veggie that will stand up to the cookie cutter and still holds its own: These include beets, the jicama root, sweet potatoes and yams, apples, pears, large carrots, kohlrabi bulbs, cucumbers, and anything else that can be eaten raw and that will be slightly larger than your smallest cookie cutter! These cookies will be as stiff as the live-food you select and as sturdy as you cut the cookies thick. Indulgers will be able to pick these whole-food, live-food Christmas Cookies up easily as finger food.
THE SUGGESTED LAYS-FLAT
LIVE-FOOD COOKIE DOUGH FORMULA = dried fruit (rehydrated or left dry) + nuts (ground, powdered, or made into butter):
You can make cookie dough out of dried fruit and nuts. The dried fruit can be soaked overnight. The nuts can be ground into a fluffy powder or made into a nut butter. Once the dried fruit and nuts are mixed in your food processor, a thick and sticky dough will form. Add just a very little liquid if too sticky. Add more nuts -- ground or powdered -- if too pudding-like. You just experiment with the amounts of these 2 ingredients until you get a dough you can spread out and cookie cut. If the dough is still too sticky to use the cutter comfortably, roll the dough in a little date sugar or carob powder. Pat the dough down until you can get good cuts from it. Then pick each cookie up with a spatula to put on individual serving plates. Chilling the cookies in the refrigerator will stiffen up the cookies. Indulgers may pick the cookies up if they are made stiff enough, or they may eat them with small spoons.
THE
SUGGESTED TOPPINGS FOR YOUR LAYS-FLAT COOKIES = any live-food sauce or dip recipe stiff enough to easily spread + any live-food bits you can embed into the tops of the cookies: 2 BOOKS IN 1 -- The Health Seekers' YearBook with The Best of Common Health Sense is loaded with spreadable dips, sauces, and guacamole recipes.
Just one example would be to VITA-MIX up firm but yummy avocados with a tablespoon at a time of apple juice: this froths up much like whipped cream -- green whipped cream! And toppings are... TOO FUN! You can use Victory Veggie Vittles -- my flash-freeze dried recipe of 11 veggies. Or you can dice, shred, slice, or mince up tiny, colorful live-foods such as the bell peppers -- red, green, and yellow. Other tiny toppings could be a single grape, dried coconut, raisins, and all the tiny dried fruits: blueberries, cherries, cranberries. -- anything tiny! The more toppings, the more FUN! FUN! FUN!
THE 3 SUGGESTED WAYS TO SERVE YOUR LAYS-FLAT COOKIES = These adorables can be very filling. So 1 way to eat them is as a separate meal. If you and your guests have been feasting on previous courses all day, you may want to wait and serve the cookies as an entire meal later in the evening. You and your guests make the Christmas Cookies together as "edible arts & crafts" and then eat them together as The Live-Food Enthusiasts you are -- laughing all the way! Secondly, it would also be good to serve these Christmas Cookies with ribs of celery set out on a platter with lettuce. The fluids in celery and lettuce will help The Cookie Feaster's digestion tremendously. Finally, you may want to serve Instead of Hot Chocolate -- Warmed-Up Carob Nut Milk with the home-made Christmas Cookies.
Swee
|
