Fall Recipes

Hi Everyone! Is everyone enjoying all the pumpkin spice? I have gone pumpkin crazy. ;-)   Well here is a great breakfast smoothie recipe using pumpkin and a nice fall snack with your favorite kind of apples. 


Pumpkin Spice Smoothie:

Ingredients:
1 cup unsweetened almond milk (or another non-dairy milk)
½ cup pumpkin purée 
½ banana
½ tsp agave syrup
½ tsp pure vanilla extract
¼ tsp ground cinnamon
⅛ tsp ground ginger
pinch ground nutmeg
pinch ground cloves
pinch all spice


Directions:
1) Place everything in the blender.
2) Blend until mixture is smooth.
3) Pour into your favorite glass and Sprinkle with cinnamon if you’d like!

Enjoy!

Serves: 2

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Homemade Apple Chips:

Ingredients:

1 large Apple (Gala, Fuji, Granny Smith or Golden Delicious)

2 tablespoons light brown sugar

1 tablespoon cinnamon

Directions:

1) Preheat the oven to 225 degrees. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper.

2) Using a vegetable slicer or mandoline slice the apples as thinly as you can.  

3) Mix the sugar and the cinnamon in a shallow bowl and dip the apple slices lightly in the mixture, just lightly coating them.  

4) Lay the slices on the baking sheets, about 12 slices per sheet. Bake for 60 minutes.  

5) Remove one pan at a time and flip the apple slices over with tongs.  When you return pans to oven, also rotate them - put the one that was on the top rack on the bottom.  

6) Bake for another 60 minutes. Remove pans from oven. Apple slices will start to harden up pretty quickly.  Remove with tongs.  

Enjoy! 

Makes 2 dozen chips