repost: dessert recipes

the material below came from two separate posts to the old veg-raw. The first
part has been re-formatted for submission to the (new) SF-LiFE newsletter. The
second part came from the (old, 1995) SF-LiFE newsletter, and has only
minor edits. Enjoy!


BETTER THAN ICE CREAM: FROZEN FRUIT ICE CREAM SUBSTITUTE


The following can be a dessert, if eaten in small quantity, or a main fruit
meal. As it is frozen, and cold/frozen food upsets the digestion, it should be
eaten only rarely - as a special treat. Also, the high sugar content of modern
fruit makes this an occasional treat, rather than a dietary staple.

Take fresh, raw, ripe mangos. Peel and slice, store slices in plastic bag or
other suitable container, and freeze. Then when you want to eat, remove from
freezer and allow mangos to partially thaw. The mangos should not fully thaw:
they should still have ice crystals in them.

Put partially thawed mangos in blender, and puree. The result is an ice cream
substitute that is 100% raw fruit, delicious, and better than any ice cream.
This process can be used with other sweet fruit, such as papayas, pineapple,
nectarines, mulberries, bananas, etc. It doesn't work well with watery fruit -
things like citrus, grapes, strawberries; one gets a fruit ice (which does not
have an ice cream-like consistency) when using watery fruit.

Experiment and enjoy!

Strawberry - Banana Pie Recipe

* The following recipe appeared in the Nov-Dec 1995, (#8) issue of "Sunfood
Lifestyle", the (old, previous) newsletter of the San Francisco Living Foods
Support Group (renamed SF-LiFE since then: S.F. Living Foods Enthusiasts). This
is posted with permission of the first listed author of the recipe.

Strawberry - Banana Pie
(Greg Laroche and Jyl Safier)

Ingredients
* 1-1.5 cups soaked almonds
* 0.5 cups dates
* 1 tsp. cinnamon
* 0.5 tsp. nutmeg
* 0.25 cup orange juice
* 3 pints strawberries
* 4 bananas
* 0.125 cup fresh shredded coconut

Instructions
1. Freeze 2 pints of the strawberries and 2 bananas
2. Blend almonds, dates, cinnamon, nutmeg and orange juice in a food
processor.
3. Form the blended mixture into a pie crust in a 9 inch pie dish.
4. Process the frozen fruit to a sorbet consistency in a Champion juicer
using the blank plate.
5. Slice up the remaining strawberries and bananas.
6. Layer the sorbet and fruit slices over the pie crust.
7. Decorate with coconut.

Remarks on the recipe:
1) It's an excellent pie - I had a chance to eat some at an earlier
meeting.
2) In step 4, you can use a blender instead of a Champion juicer. Just
let the fruit thaw some before putting it in blender.

Tom Billings
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