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  • Experience Nutrition: Aromatic Apple Berry Crisp: Delicious Plant-Based Desserts by Melanie Albert, Part 3 of 4

    Experience Nutrition: Aromatic Apple Berry Crisp: Delicious Plant-Based Desserts by Melanie Albert, Part 3 of 4

    By Melanie Albert, Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition, Intuitive Cooking Expert, and Award-Winning Cookbook Author

    Excited to share with you the Aromatic Apple Berry Pie to enjoy creating with your family and friends. This dessert is an incredible aromatherapy culinary experience with hand-grinding spices, including cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom.

    We created this dessert with 4 different varieties of apples at our hands-on Holiday Dessert cooking class at The Farm at South Mountain, and it was “perfect”. Such a beautiful, warming fall / winter dessert.

    Links to the other plant-based dessert recipe prepared at the class:


    Aromatic Apple Berry Crisp with Freshly Ground Spices

    This apple berry crisp is one of my all-time favorites. From mindfully hand-grinding and enjoying the aromatherapy of freshly ground warming spices, along with the aromatherapy of the apples sautéing in the spices, to memories of eating pies when I was a child, this dessert is outstanding. Enjoy the process of setting up your mise en place, cooking, and enjoying this dish with your family and friends.

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    Topping

    Simple Ingredients

    • 1 cup rolled oats
    • ½ cup almonds, walnuts, or pecans, sliced
    • ¼ cup maple sugar
    • 1 tsp cinnamon, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp nutmeg, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp cardamom seeds, fresh ground
    • 1/4 cup grapeseed oil

    Simple Steps

    • Hand-grind cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom.
    • Mix all dry ingredients for topping until well combined.
    • Pour in grapeseed oil and mix.

    Filling

    Simple Ingredients

    • 5 apples, sliced
    • 2 pears, sliced
    • 1 cup raspberries
    • 1 cup blackberries
    • 3 tbsp grapeseed oil
    • ¼ cup maple sugar
    • 1 tsp cinnamon, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp nutmeg, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp cardamom seeds, fresh ground
    • ½ tsp cloves, fresh ground
    • 1 orange, juiced and zested
    • 1 lemon, juiced and zested

    Simple Steps

    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
    • Place sliced apples and pears in a large sauté pan.
    • Turn heat to medium and add remaining filling ingredients.
    • Cook apples and pears for 15-20 minutes until slightly soft; stir occasionally.
    • Pour cooked apples with sauce into 8-inch by 8-inch baking dish.
    • Top with oats topping, raspberries, and blackberries.
    • Bake on middle oven rack for 30-35 minutes.
    • Plate and enjoy!

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    So glad Nathalia from Brazil was in town to capture some fun photos from our Dessert Cooking Class at The Farm. Thanks!

    The beauty of the apples…and, all the mindful chopping…

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    The zesting and juicing of the lemons and oranges.

    The aromatherapy of the cinnamon, nutmeg, and cardamom…And, beautiful teamwork!


    A few additional fun photos from the class…

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    Apple cutting knife skills with Melanie Albert.
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    More cinnamon aromatherapy.

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    The beautiful apple crisp, and a batch of hummus…ready to be enjoyed.

    Thanks to Natural Awakenings AZ magazine for featuring my Plant-Based Chocolate Pie on the cover and Plant-Based Dessert recipes in the January 2019 issue.

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    Natural Awakenings Arizona, January 2019. Start the New Year Off Right

     


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    Phoenix friends…hope you or your kids can join us at one of our hands-on intuitive cooking classes this season… Vision Board & Appetizers,  Foods for Addiction Recovery, Spring Farm-to-Table,  Raw Farm-to-Table, and Kids Food Art.


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    Purchase Tickets for the Get Clear for the New Year Vision Board & Farm-to-Table Plant-Based Cooking Class at The Farm at South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, Saturday, January 12, 2019, 1-3pm

     

     


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    Purchase Tickets for Whole Foods for Addiction Recovery with New York “Spiritual Adrenaline” Author Tom Shanahan and Phoenix cookbook author Melanie Albert. The Farm at South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, February 17, 2019, 11am-1pm


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    Purchase Tickets for Spring Farm-to-Table Plant-Based Intuitive Cooking with Melanie Albert and Soil & Seed Garden Farmer Billy Anthony. The Farm at South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, March 3, 2019, 10:30am-1pm

     


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    Purchase Tickets for Raw Farm-to-Table Plant-Based Intuitive Cooking with Melanie Albert and Soil & Seed Garden Farmer Billy Anthony. The Farm at South Mountain, Phoenix, Arizona, Sunday, April 7, 2019, 10:30am-1pm


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    Happy Cooking!

  • A New View of Healthy Eating: 4 Steps to Bake an Organic Apple Crisp with Freshly Ground Spices

    By Melanie A. Albert, intuitive cooking expert, author, and speaker. Founder & CEO Experience Nutrition Group, LLC

    After teaching a cooking class yesterday at the Downtown Phoenix Public Market, today I decided to give myself some self care time in the kitchen. I always love enjoying the aromatherapy of fresh herbs and spices, the mindfulness of chopping, and the natural aroma of desserts in my oven.  I decided to cook, for the first time since the launch of my new book, A New View of Healthy Eating, one of my very favorite desserts.

    Enjoy today’s step-by-step photos creating the Organic Apple Crisp. For your reference, the complete recipe from the book is here for you, as well.

    • Start with hand-ground spices: cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, and cardamom. The incredible mindfulness of grinding the spices, along with the distinct aromatherapy of each brings back memories of baking with my Mom and Grandmother when I was a kid.
    • Slice organic apples, like these fresh apples which grew in Wilcox, Arizona. If you live in an area where you can “pick-your-own” apples, have fun picking and then come home and enjoy preparing this apple crisp.
    • Practice your mise en place: Get all of your ingredients together for the apple crisp filling and topping, for mindful cooking.

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    • Place filling ingredients into a sauce pan and cook for about 20 minutes. Apples, spices, sweetener (local Arizona honey today), grapeseed oil, lemon and orange zest and juice. Near the end of cooking, I added a few organic raspberries to the crisp.
    • Mix the ingredients for the topping: oats, chopped nuts (walnuts today), sweetener (Arizona honey today), grapeseed oil, and the ground spices.
    • Bake in pre-heated 350 degree oven for about 20-30 minutes.
    • Enjoy!

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    EXCERPT from A New View of Healthy Eating: Aromatic Apple Crisp with Freshly Ground Spices

    This apple crisp is one of my all-time favorites. From cooking with local organic apples to mindfully hand-grinding and enjoying the aromatherapy of freshly ground warming spices, from the aromatherapy of the apples sautéing in the spices to memories of eating pies when I was a child, this dessert (or breakfast) is outstanding. Enjoy the process of setting up your mise en place, cooking, and enjoying this dish with your family and friends.

    SIMPLE INGREDIENTS

    Topping

    • 1 cup rolled oats
    • ½ cup almonds, walnuts, or pecans, sliced
    • ¼ cup maple sugar
    • 1 tsp cinnamon, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp nutmeg, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp cardamom seeds, fresh ground
    • ½ cup grapeseed oil

    Filling

    • 8 apples, sliced
    • 3 tbsp grapeseed oil
    • 4 tbsp maple sugar
    • 1 tsp cinnamon, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp nutmeg, fresh ground
    • 1 tsp cardamom seeds, fresh ground
    • ½ tsp cloves, fresh ground
    • 1 orange, juiced and zested
    • 1 lemon, juiced and zested

    SIMPLE STEPS

    1. Prepare your mise en place.
      • Hand-grind all spices in mortar and pestle.
      • Hand-squeeze and zest the orange and lemon.
    1. Prepare topping.
    • Mix all dry ingredients for topping until well combined.
    • Pour in grapeseed oil and mix.
    1. Cook the apple crisp.
    • Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
    • Place sliced apples in a large sauté pan.
    • Turn heat to medium and add remaining filling ingredients.
    • Cook until apples slightly soften; stir occasionally.
    • Pour cooked apples with sauce into 8-inch by 8-inch baking dish.
    • Top with oats topping.
    • Bake on middle oven rack for 20-30 minutes.
    1. Enjoy!

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