Delish Pumpkin Pie!

I took this recipe from the nourishing apron…my fav sugar free site.  We've been making this pie for years, and everyone loves it and no one knows it doesn't have sugar.  This is of course just what you make with your leftover pumpkins after Halloween…before that, you buy your pies at Costco and deal with the sugar, because $5 for a huge awesome Costco pie is just ridiculously awesome!  But here ya go!  Jase cooks, purees, and freezes our pumpkin each year so that I'll make these….

2 cups pumpkin
3 eggs
1/2 cup honey
1/2 cup maple syrup
1 12 oz can evaporated milk (or coconut milk)
1 tablespoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon salt


pie crust…I either make Jase buy it, or Sprouts has some awesome whole wheat.  We have had ME make them, but then we just end up eating the pie out of the crust and trashing the crust…which is actually even healthier. :)


Combine all ingredients and pour into pie crust. Bake at 425 for 15 minutes, then reduce heat to 350 and bake for an additional 45 minutes. You may need to cover the crust towards the end to keep it from getting too dark.

Sugarless berry cobbler and ice cream...

Ok, my friend Lanae has inspired me to try and make my desserts w/o white sugar.  It's not too hard. I had no idea.  But thanks to County Living magazine, I didn't have to try and figure out the sweetness on my own.  They have a recipe w/o sugar.  Here it is:

1 pint blackberries
1/2 pint raspberries
1/2 pint strawberries sliced
(or instead of the above berries, we just threw in about 2C of the Sam's club frozen berry mixture...which we go through like crazy!)
1/4C honey
3/4 C flour (whole wheat or white)
1/2 C oats
1/2 C agave
1 stick of butter

Preheat oven to 375.
In a large bowl mix berries.  Drizzle with honey.  Sprinkle with 4 T flour and toss.  Put it in an 8x8 baking dish.
Then mix the remaining flour, oats, agave and butter with a pastry blender or your fingers until mixture forms large, kinda sticky, lumps.  Sprinkle that over the berries.  Bake until golden brown....about 40-45 min.  Top with delicious coconut milk ice cream (again, no sugar)....or top with that awesome whipped coconut milk cream posted below...both are great, and my kids had no idea it was a dairy free, sugar free recipe!

My Milkshake brings all the boys to the yard....

The kids and I were just sitting here painting things and making lemonade stand signs, and I found this awesome milkshake recipe and everyone except Jaden loved it...who admitted that he hates carrot cake.  But it takes JUST like carrot cake...and NO SUGAR!

• 1 extremely-ripe, large banana (frozen)
• 2/3 cup non-dairy milk...we use almond. (For an extremely rich, “ice cream”-like shake, try coconut milk. Also, use more or less, depending on desired thickness.)
• If, like me, you prefer smoothies in a bowl, reduce milk, or add a pinch of xantham and guar gums.
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
• heaping 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 small carrot (50g or so)
• scant 1/16 tsp salt (to bring out sweetness)
• Optional: coconut oil...be sure to slowly pour it in so it doesn't harden.