Blueberry Goat Cheese Pie

Though pumpkin pie is probable a more famous serving preference at some stage in the fall months, I couldn't withstand the idea of a single crust pie loaded with goat cheese and fresh blueberries and crowned with sliced almonds. As it so happened, neither my husband nor exceptional friend Basil should face up to a beneficiant sampling, and honestly that is a praise to the baker as each take into account themselves to be pie connoisseurs.

A surprising but beautiful detail of this pie is the gentle hint of sparkling basil that surely comes through even though I used just a small quantity. Not precisely a savory dessert, the beauty is rather subdued and pleasantly tempered via the creamy and tangy goat cheese. The herbal sweetness of the berries is likewise to be recommended.

Here, I actually have used one of my best attempted and examined homemade pastries. A tip I learned years in the past is to apply a few splashes of vodka in case your dough would not appear wet enough to roll out. If you use too much water, you end up with extra gluten formation, ensuing in a harder crust. On the opposite hand, vodka includes ethanol and due to the fact gluten does now not form in the ethanol, you are much more likely to reap that ideal gentle, wealthy and flaky butter crust that makes for the final pastry revel in.

As regular, sense loose to apply your very own favorite pastry recipe. If you bake, most simply you have got a number of treasured favorites.

More delightful pies from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Pumpkin Pie

Concord Grape Pie

Apple Pie Tart

Savory Grape Leaf Pie with Herbs, Yogurt and Quinoa

Blueberry Lime Biscuits

Over the years, I even have gained a reputation for my savory short breads. Scones and biscuits are always a great addition to meals, as are a number of the breads that I make with out yeast. This time, I actually have long past with a blueberry biscuit, so those are sweeter than those I frequently serve, however the burst comes from the herbal goodness of plump berries ? Instead of too much delivered sugar ? That makes its presence recognised in a muted way. The addition of lime adds a tangy undertone that pairs well with the berries. These biscuits paintings particularly well for a fast breakfast, accompaniment to lunch, or as a mild dessert after a meal.

More short breads you're sure to experience from Lisa's Kitchen:

Ricotta Cheese Biscuits

Lemon Ricotta Blueberry Biscuits

Indian-Style Spicy Cheese Scones

Whole Wheat Olive Oil Biscuits

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Blueberry Ricotta Pound Cake

It won't be berry season, however I've been consuming a number of sparkling blueberries lately, regularly just with a piece of yogurt. Well the yearning hit for something sweet, and so this moist ricotta pound cake bursting with berry goodness became formed. I am sharing this simply in time for Valentine's Day. It is fulfilling anytime of year, any day of the week of path. My husband and I loved it for breakfast, lunch, dessert and for a late night snack. It's honestly not too sweet both, with most of the beauty coming from the berries. Stored in an airtight box, it stays fresh for a few days.

Other baked delights you are positive to experience:

Ancient Roman Cheesecake

Blueberry Ricotta Cheesecake

Guinness Gingerbread Cake

Blueberry Goat Cheese Pie

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Blueberry and Goat Cheese Salad with Mushrooms

It's blueberry season again, and although I devour them year round in splendid quantities, they're a actual deal with while they're sparkling and nearby. Perfect only for snacking on, served up together with your morning cereal, blanketed in baked treats or even featured in salads, as I even have carried out right here, they may be my berry of desire. With the latest warmness wave, ingesting light with little heat emanating from the oven or range-pinnacle is frequently the way to head.

I was lately despatched a choice of blueberry recipes featured at the US Highbush Blueberry web site. With such a lot of tempting recipes to pick out from, I assume it was the warmth and the fascinating combination of flavors protected on this salad that resulted in this one landing at the table first.

Everything is here. Creamy and tangy goat cheese, crunchy walnuts, crisp salad greens, vibrant sparkling blueberries, earthy and succulent mushrooms (my addition) all dressed up in a easy yet active balsamic vinaigrette. Apart from the benefit of guidance, it's a lovely salad in look in addition to a treat to the palate. Canada Day is beyond now, but the ones within the U.S. May need to recall dressing up their tables this July 4th weekend with this beauty. For that remember, this salad is perfect for any occasion or simply as a simple however gorgeous mild lunch or side for dinner. I suppose it is going without announcing it is also packed full of vitamins.

Other recipes presenting blueberries you may revel in:

Baked Whole-Wheat Strawberry and Blueberry Pancakes

Pomegranate & Blueberry Oat Smoothie

Blueberry Goat Cheese Pie

Red Cabbage with Mushrooms and Blueberries

Classic Blueberry Muffins

For a few years I had been trying to come up with a traditional blueberry muffin that makes a speciality of the herbal sweetness of fruit. Too frequently, blueberry desserts are loaded up with subtle sugar and are more like mini cakes. The twist right here is adding some chopped apple that provides greater moistness and more herbal sweetness combined with the berries. I like to bake, generally easy brief breads, as they may be perfect for breakfast, brunch or lunch and indeed a snack whilst the yearning hits. Yes, there is still sugar in those delights, however lots much less than most blueberry cakes I have tried.

Other muffin recipes from my kitchen you're sure to enjoy:

Blueberry Goat Cheese Muffins

Cherry Blueberry Muffins

Cornmeal Honey Muffins

Tomato Cornmeal Muffins with Cheddar Cheese

Raspberry-Banana Oat and Chia Seed Smoothie

I have not absolutely jumped aboard the chia seed bandwagon, but even supposing they're no longer the typical panacea as has been recommended, I don't thoughts taking benefit of the omega-3 acids, fiber, iron, calcium, protein, diet C, potassium and antioxidants that chia seeds provide. Apart from pleasant chia seed puddings, chia seeds are smooth to contain in smoothies, which I frequently experience for a wholesome, clean-to-digest and brief and smooth no-prepare dinner breakfast pick-me-up. And due to the fact chia seeds enjoy the identical soaking and fermentation approach that make the proteins in rolled oats digestible, they are a easy addition to the oat and yogurt mixture that I prepare the night earlier than my smoothie in a variation of the conventional muesli method ? Virtually stir oats and chia seeds into undeniable whole-fats yogurt and leave in a single day at room temperature, and the subsequent morning you've got a nourishing, tangy and delicious base for adding any variant of culmination and natural sweeteners to make a smoothie.

This combination of yogurt, oats, chia seeds, raspberries and bananas makes for a specially clean and extensive breakfast smoothie ? So tasty, in fact, that it felt like I changed into consuming a sparkling dessert!

Other smoothies you may revel in:

Oat-Mango Smoothie with Blackberries

Blueberry and Maple Syrup Oat Smoothie

Pomegranate & Blueberry Oat Smoothie

Blueberry Lemon Cream Cheese Loaf

If there are multiple dimensions, then surely this bread should exist in each and every one.

As cited frequently on this area, I am a savory woman, even though I do like to bake and experience the fruits of the revel in carefully. My husband and buddies don't have any trouble sharing with me. More frequently than no longer, my favored baked items are berry treats, inclusive of muffins or loafs and of direction cheesecake. This wet and creamy loaf, bursting with sparkling blueberries, brings together that valuable cheesecake experience, with a loaf twist. Already I even have made it two times so that it will proportion the perfected end result with my readers.

There has been plenty of renewed hobby in coconut sugar over the last few years. Recently, I became offered a sample to try from Grace Foods. Organic, crafted from gently boiled sap collected from coconut flower buds, it's far free of synthetic flavors, preservatives and coloring. Baking is a key take a look at for new sugar products, and I provide this herbal opportunity to processed sugars a happy skip in my kitchen. For most recipes, mainly ones calling for brown or cane sugar, however also for granulated sugar, simply substitute an equal amount of coconut sugar. If you need to put sugar on your espresso or tea, then go ahead. Coconut sugar is likewise believed to have a noticeably low glycemic index. Moderation is important in relation to sugar, despite the fact that processed evidently, but we all need a bit of sweetness in our lives.

A lovely breakfast or brunch or, of direction, dessert, explore the opportunities with the flours and sweeteners of your choosing.

More cakey goodness from Lisa's Kitchen:

Guinness Gingerbread Cake

Blueberry Lemon Cake Cookies

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze

Goat Cheese Cheesecake with Mixed Berries

Blueberry Goat Cheese Muffins with Cherry Jam

Homemade truffles are a super short breakfast answer or wholesome snack to take to work for destroy time. I specifically like desserts which might be low in sugar, and with the addition of creamy goat cheese, these are particularly gratifying and filling. A bit of cornmeal provides a pleasing crunchy texture to the cakes and cherry jam complements the alternative ingredients to perfection. Berry season is developing, and sparkling local plump blueberries need to be savored and enjoyed, packed full of anti-oxidants as they're. Of path, they're incredible to snack on, simply as is or possibly with a touch yogurt, but after I bake I regularly locate myself turning towards berry treats. The remaining baked blueberry pleasure I made turned into a heavenly blueberry lemon cream cheese loaf.

More traditional muffin recipes from Lisa's Kitchen:

Cherry-Vanilla Ricotta Muffins

Blueberry Cornmeal Muffins

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Cornmeal Honey Muffins

Blackberry Quinoa Muffins

I'm now not one to fuss over breakfast, unless I even have some time on the weekend when I am not domestic alone within the morning due to the fact it's far continually excellent to have someone special to proportion with. Still, breakfast is an critical meal, even supposing no longer loved till the "brunching" hour or even if a mild one. Savory grain-based muffins make for a quick morning or mid-day meal or snack whilst you just need to grab something on the go, or complement your take-to-paintings lunch. Heck, they may be accurate every time of day. Leftover grains never go to waste in my kitchen.

As is typical with me, I maintain sugar content material to a minimum in my baked goods maximum of the time, and you truely don't want a great deal sugar in these cakey and moist muffins ? Not anything like a burst of fresh fruit and berries to fulfill the ones taste buds craving natural sweetness. The addition of quinoa makes those a fair more extensive and nourishing muffin than most, and they live fresh in a properly-sealed container for multiple days.

Local blackberries are strutting their goodness proper now, however I can quite much buy them 12 months round in London, and I take advantage of this luxury from time to time because I love sparkling berries and simply can't pass them with the aid of and pine away until overdue summer.

More cakes from Lisa's Kitchen you are sure to revel in for breakfast or brunch:

Blueberry Goat Cheese Muffins

Cherry Blueberry Muffins

Cornmeal Honey Muffins

Rice Muffins

No-Bake Blueberry Bars

The creation of blazing southwestern Ontario summer warmth method that it is time to enjoy refrigerated treats and the clean taste of summer season berries ? Or better yet, refrigerated berry treats! I'm particularly partial to blueberries and healthy and nourishing uncooked treats, so these two-layer no-bake raw blueberry bars combine the exceptional of each worlds. Chewy, cool and refreshing, those are best bars to preserve handy within the refrigerator or to p.C. Into a picnic cooler on warm days.

More blueberry delights from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Quinoa Blueberry Bites

Peanut Butter and Blueberry Shortbread Bars

Dumplings in Blueberry Syrup

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Strawberry-Blueberry Breakfast Casserole

I admit to a unique affection for breakfast recipes that may be prepared the night time earlier than to make the morning meal as easy a job as pouring a bowl of bloodless cereal. And I even have a fair more affection for sparkling strawberries and blueberries, which makes this smooth strawberry-blueberry breakfast casserole an item of affections certainly!

Sweet local strawberries are in season now and they're virtually available in abundance. Now I do not consume eggs, however my husband does enjoy them, so this casserole became for him because it includes masses of eggs, milk, cream cheese and bread together with the berries making this breakfast casserole pass a protracted manner for the duration of the day, and it is a really perfect answer for feeding a circle of relatives or morning guests ? They may absolutely be enticed by using the smells because the casserole bakes in the morning. Leftovers can also easily be wrapped in aluminum foil, saved inside the refrigerator for a couple of days, and reheated in the oven.

Blueberry Pineapple Smoothie

Adding nuts and dried grain flakes like oats to fruit smoothies makes them not only a brief, easy and tasty breakfast solution however additionally a nourishing one with a purpose to provide you with the protein and fats electricity to maintain you going inside the morning. Blueberries and pineapple are a pretty delicious aggregate of sweetness and tartness, but add any end result or combination of fruits that fits your morning fancies.

Other smoothies to experience from Lisa's Kitchen:

Cherry Coconut Milk Smoothie

Beet and Strawberry Vanilla Smoothie

Avocado Blackberry Smoothie

Mango Banana Coconut Smoothie

Beet and Strawberry Vanilla Smoothie

I've been topping up my breakfasts currently with quick frozen fruit smoothies, and this brilliant pink strawberry concoction has right away become considered one of my favorites. Cold, refreshing and creamy, it's not only packed with masses of sweet strawberry flavor but additionally with the remarkable vitamin and mineral vitamins of red beets. It's so tasty that I've started shopping for luggage of red beets to have available in preference to small bunches ? And so nourishing, too, that you will need to serve it any time of day. In truth, I assume I'll move make any other one proper now!

More Smoothies to enjoy from my kitchen:

Avocado Blackberry Smoothie

Raspberry-Banana Oat and Chia Seed Smoothie

Beet and Top Green Smoothie with Apple, Orange and Ginger

Pomegranate & Blueberry Oat Smoothie

Cashew-Cream Filled Raspberry Chocolates

I think we are all acquainted with those stale sugar-encumbered stuffed chocolates that make their look in a container, specifically around Christmas. You realize, the neighbor who thinks that gifting something is higher than not, however the as an alternative pathetic excuse for sweets typically finally ends up in a personnel room or languishing in a pantry until someone within the house gets determined for a chocolate repair. To no avail, I say, will you get your wanted dose of chocolate ? Only a heavy chunk of processed sugar.

More of a savory female for positive, I still like a small dose of chocolate occasionally. And creamy stuffed candies are nevertheless a special deal with, in particular whilst they may be essentially uncooked and full of a healthy dose of home made raspberry cashew filling. No need to sense responsible about these. If you really want the melt-in-your-mouth experience, then just go away the candies out of the freezer for a couple of minutes before biting into one or two. A pleasant high-quality dark chocolate is critical right here and I assure you won't be dissatisfied.

Note: If you don't have a candy mold, strive the usage of a coated mini-muffin cup tin. My kitchen is extra than well stocked, but I really bought an cheaper silicone sweet mildew from Amazon to finish the experience. It changed into nicely really worth it.

Other chocolate treats to revel in from Lisa's Kitchen:

four Ingredient Raw Peanut Butter Chocolate Cups

Chocolate Chili Cake

Flourless Chocolate Cake with Bittersweet Chocolate Glaze

Cocoa Nut Butter No-Bake Fudge

Avocado Blackberry Smoothie

The holidays are often a time of indulgence. Larger meals and more chocolates. Once the festivities are over, a lot of us turn to healthier and cleansing answers for meals. Smoothies are always a good preference to begin the day, specially while creamy avocado and berries take the shining role, as they do here along side banana, almond milk and hemp seeds. In addition, not most effective is that this smoothie packed with nourishment, but it takes rarely whenever at all to whiz up. If you want your smoothies sweeter, virtually add more honey.

Other smoothie recipes to attempt:

Beet and Top Green Smoothie with Apple, Orange and Ginger

Frozen Mango Lime Lassi

Pomegranate & Blueberry Oat Smoothie

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Quinoa Blueberry Bites

These little bites are basically a muffin. As they're gluten-loose, dairy-free and contain cooked quinoa and rice flour, they do not upward push as lots as the truffles which might be typically baked in my kitchen. But it is not a terrible element. They honestly are packed full of goodness and herbal sweetness. And moist. Enjoy them quickly after they come out of the oven for that soften-in-your-mouth revel in, when the blueberries are nevertheless warm. The applesauce also makes a bolder taste whilst they're clean.

More little bites from Lisa's Kitchen you are certain to enjoy:

Lime Biscuit Thins

Indian-Style Poppy Seed Wafers

Classic Blueberry Muffins

Cornmeal Honey Muffins

Dark Chocolate Truffle Tart with Mixed Berries in a Teff Crust {Vegan}

If you need to electrify your dinner guests, then you may want to make this tart that will have all and sundry oohing and aahing in anticipation. Little will they know that the tart is exceptionally easy to make even though it has that fancy bakery attraction. No kneading, chilling and rolling out of the crust. And whilst it comes all the way down to it, simplicity in all its comfortable glory is just the dessert to make an enduring influence. Rich, succulently dense and refreshing, the goodness of nice fine darkish chocolate pairs perfectly with the earthy teff crust. You'll best need a small slice of this divine tart, regardless of the urge to bypass dinner all collectively and just deal with dessert.

This dessert become the crowning contact on my vegetarian Christmas meal that changed into quietly loved at home with my husband, loved bestest pal Basil, and kitties lurking round but respectfully staying away from our food. My dinner turned into so tempting that it became deemed best to depart the tart to sit down out and trap even as we loved a warm mulligatawny soup and my lush and filling samosa potpie. Coffee changed into necessary after dinner as we opened some gifts and then onto the tart as dinner started to settle in our full tummies.

Teff is a completely small historic grain originating in Ethiopia. Technically a seed, small these grains may be, but teff has a mighty presence because it's packed full of important vitamins and masses of earthy flavour. As you'll count on, the flour is clearly the floor grain. Eating the crust of this tart is part of the amusement, because it adds a earthy, dense and nutty-flavor evaluation to the chocolate filling. Teff flour can commonly be determined at natural food stores and Bob's Red Mill make a quality version.

Other vegan chocolate sweets to revel in from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Chocolate Cake with Chocolate Filling and Ganache

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Teff Cookies

Tahini Freezer Fudge

Raw Peanut Butter Chocolate Nut Squares

Raw Peanut Butter Truffles

Strawberry Chia Oat Bars

I made these oat bars with a strawberry jam filling with clean breakfasts in mind, however they have been so exciting that I observed myself serving them for dessert as nicely. The cookie-like oat crust is made with sunflower seeds, pepitas and tahini for an excellent supporting of protein and taste that might make it a treat all through itself. But a strawberry chia seed jam filling and a mild streusel-like topping of greater of the oat, seed and pepita combination makes those bars very just like a berry crisp.

Although they flavor candy, there aren't any refined sugars ? Just maple syrup and the cane sugar used to sweeten the jam ? Or some thing else to sense responsible approximately on this recipe. They hold properly within the fridge for as much as every week in the event that they closing that lengthy, and freeze nicely too.

Recipe notes: I used a combination of both strawberry and raspberry chia seed jam. World of Chia jams are available at many grocery stores, but if you can't find chia seed jam — in which chia seeds are used instead of pectin to thicken the fruit spread — then any good quality jam without refined sugars would work fine as well. And if you don't have pepitas, then use another 1/4 cup sunflower seeds instead.

Other breakfast bars to experience from Lisa's Vegetarian Kitchen:

Cherry Nut Bars

Quinoa Nut and Fruit Protein Bars

Chocolate-Covered Hemp Seed Protein Bars

Chocolate Peanut Butter Protein Bars

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