Pumpkin Lucuma Ice Cream

Little Brother digging in

packing up in pint-sized containers

pumpkin bowls for Thanksgiving teatime

winter gift giving

Honeychild gave us some mini containers for individual servings.  If Big Brother wants ice cream at Famer's Market, then Little Brother can bring along "matching" safe ice cream for him

This ice cream is a family staple.  It's everything I love about lucuma in Chile, mixed with everything I love about warm, fall pumpkin flavors. This is such an easy pumpkin Thanksgiving Day treat without much preparation fuss. I simply blend the ingredients in my Thermomix and then the mixture goes into our ice cream maker. 

Thanksgiving Leftover Turkey Stuffed Sweet Potatoes

This is our favorite way to use up scraps of leftover turkey.  Today for lunch I started out sauteing scallions in some saved turkey fat, added in collard greens cut in lovely strips, added a splash of apple cider vinegar along with another splash of maple syrup, fresh ground black pepper and a dash of pink salt. There happened to be a leftover slice of turkey bacon in the fridge so I threw that in along with a handful of raisins to satisfy the little ones. We then top sweet potatoes with a heaping pile of this mixture.  And everything is better with a spoonful of homemade cranberry sauce.  This year, it was cranberries and fresh mandarin orange juice from our tree along with the tiniest spoonful of coconut sugar.  This makes for a very tart cranberry sauce.  No top allergens or garlic in this meal.

Happy Thanksgiving

Preschool class made allergy-safe cornbread muffins

Appetizer plate: includes our kale white bean dip and our pâté

buckwheat crackers

entertainment

As always, fresh heritage turkey from Tejas Farm

Papi always carves turkey

Boys always grab the legs

turkey centerpiece

delicious

morning out drawing and hiking at Arboretum

C.G. Hovercraft and Teal Mobile

pumpkin lucuma ice cream outside on a gorgeous day

cheetah cornucopia

                   

making a wish

                                   OUR FIRST THANKSGIVING IN OUR NEW HOME

Teatime Today

We had some extra chocolate sauce leftover from Halloween "candy" apples.  We used it to spread on these Soul Sprout almond crackers during teatime (we call it tomar once in the Chilean tradition).  The sauce hardens up in the fridge and becomes a nice spread.  

I have been allergic to tree nuts for as long as I can remember. Almonds and macadamia nuts are the only ones I tolerated as a child until I started reacting at a young age to other tree nuts. At some point I stopped eating all tree nuts.  This summer, in hopes to add them to my diet, I went to my allergist for testing.  I tested for: almonds, macadamia, walnut and banana.  My back got rather itchy quickly after the skin pricks: It was the walnut and banana that reacted.  No reaction for almond and macadamia.  Little Brother followed with the same test and did not react to almonds, macadamia or walnuts.  We have since included almonds and macadamia nuts in our diets.  I will try giving him walnuts when I muster up the courage to do so.  

Here is the response to my allergen cross contamination concern from Two Moms Soul Sprout crackers: "We do not use peanuts, but we do use a variety of tree nuts.  All tree nuts, including almonds, are stored in the same area, although separate.  We sanitize our molds and dehydrators,so recipes that do not include tree nuts, other than almonds, should not be contaminated with other tree nuts, but the fact is that we use a variety of tree nuts in our facility and I cannot state that there is zero risk of cross contamination when it comes to tree nuts."

We went ahead with their granola bars and crackers because tree nuts are on our ok list to a certain extent.  What would you do?

Almond crackers! This is totally new for us.
 

Reaction: mustard, garlic, positive control. No reaction: almond, macadamia, walnut, barley