It's a cheesy name, but what else could I call it?

[ocelot]

Measurements are approximate - I didn't really measure while I was making it. In particular, adjust spices to taste.

Avocado Dream Pie:

1 crust, graham cracker or raw (recipe below)
2 ripe avocados
3 tablespoons ground flaxseed (thickener, and good for you, too)
4-6 pitted dates, soaked (soaking not strictly necessary, but I find it works better in my food processor if I do)
3/4 cup orange juice
1/4 cup coconut milk
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ginger
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
pinch of salt

Combine all ingredients in food processor or blender. Blend until smooth. If it doesn't seem thick like pudding, add another tablespoon ground flax seed. Spoon into pie crust. Refrigerate.

Raw crust:

1 cup almonds, soaked for at least four hours and drained
3 pitted dates, soaked
1/8 cup olive oil
salt to taste

Food process almonds into crumbs. Add other ingredients and blend until mixed. Press into a pie pan.

Quite frankly, this isn't my favorite pie crust. I need to work on it more. If you don't care about the raw thing, use a graham cracker crust.

It turned out pretty much exactly as I dreamed it. It's very rich. Would probably make a good holiday pie.

Comments

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

We never used the oven in our boat, either. Did you know you can bake bread in a crock pot?

Apple pie is similarly easy. Core 4-5 apples. Process with 1 teaspoon flax seed oil (has a buttery flavor), 3 dates, a pinch of salt, and spices to taste. Put in pie crust. Refrigerate.

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Was reading the avocado dream post of 19 Apr 2008...and popped back to this one.

Bread in the crockpot? Just stuff in in there, turn on low, and come home at the end of the day?

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

Been a while since I've done that...

Basically, it's a single-rise yeast bread (whatever recipe you happen to prefer). You mix it up, knead it, oil it well, stick it in an oiled bowl/coffee can/something that will fit inside the crock pot and leave room for rising (an official pot exists. We just used a plain old bowl) with about an inch of water between the crock pot and bowl. Cover with aluminum foil and let it go for 3-4 hours (I'm not sure if that's high or low)). http://www.recipenet.org/health/articles/crockpot.htm has some good info. I thought I posted instructions somewhere, but poking back through, it doesn't look like I have.

Oh yeah, you need something underneath the bowl to keep it from resting directly on the bottom of the crock pot. At first we used some crumpled aluminum foil, then found this little round cooling rack type thing that worked perfectly.

http://gfingf.blogspot.com/2008/03/waiter-theres-bread-in-my-crockpot.html shows gluten free bread baked directly in a crock pot, so I'd imagine normal bread could be, too. Ok, I'll stop editing this comment now.

[temperance14.livejournal.com]

Oh, didn't think til just now...

I know some raw food diets don't exclude low-n-slow heat cooking. Does a crockpot on low work with that?
(I gather some dehydrators are used in low heat cooking).

Just asking. I'm not sure how much I'd like raw food---but I bet my energy bill would. (OOOh! Must talk to Spousal Unit about making the solar ovens!)

[therealocelot.livejournal.com]

The cutoff for food to be considered raw (from the point of view of raw foodists, anyways) is around 115 degrees, and crock pots definitely go higher than that, even on low. However, if your primary goal was saving on power bills, it would probably do that.

I expect you would like some raw food, and not others, and it certainly doesn't have to be an all or nothing thing, except that some food probably tastes better to people who aren't accustomed to the taste of processed/cooked food.