Recipe: Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes

November 3rd, 2007

This unusual spiced pumpkin pancake recipe is perfect for a weekend brunch, especially before or after Halloween when pumpkins are plentiful. Top with Apple Butter, Almond Butter, any other nut butter or pure Canadian maple syrup.

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Spiced Pumpkin Pancakes

1/2 cup fresh cooked, mashed pumpkin
1/2 cup yellow cornmeal
1/2 cup Kamut flour
1/2 tsp Stevia in place of brown sugar
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon sea salt
1/2 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1 teaspoon grated orange peel
1/4 cup water
1 tablespoon olive oil
3/4 cup plain or vanilla

Combine the pumpkin with the dry ingredients. Mix water, oil, and almond milk and add to pumpkin mixture. Beat just until smooth. Heat griddle or frying pan and oil lightly. Use about 1/4-cup of batter for each pancake; cook until bubbles appear, then turn. Remove when pancakes are golden and slightly firm to the touch.


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Pumpkin pancake recipe photo credit: Her View Photography
Small dollop of apple butter shown on the the side

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Happy Halloween 2007

October 31st, 2007

It’s Halloween night again here in North America. Naturally this holiday brings up thoughts of costumes and candy, but what about the environmental impact? The writers of this blog have been hard at work providing environmentally friendly tips, Halloween pumpkin recipes, Naughty costumes and a way to remove any fears that originated with your first scary experience many years ago.
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Scott Bird, from Australia is passionate about the environment and posts something environmental related each Sunday. His Halloween contribution is about . Scott also writes about food and cooking and his newest project is on worm farms. He’s hard at work, writing a book about building a worm farm from start to finish. Expect that soon

With all the Halloween pumpkins available for carving, Darlene and I thought, “why not come up with some recipes and cook them?”. So we did just that.

Halloween Recipes

This is Darlene’s Pumpkin Apple Curry

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Darlene and I release a new whole food recipe each Saturday and we’ve still got two more recipes yet to post, one of which we made just this morning, a pumpkin pancake recipe and the other a pumpkin and butternut squash soup. The soup is yummy.

I first asked Michele if it was possibly pets that she was passionate about, but she told me in no uncertain terms that it was in fact relationships.

Michele has been contributing some great articles on the subject including a article to spice up your bedroom. Great any time of the year.

My buddy Scott Tousignant, author of and e-books contributed a video that makes use of the Halloween decorations you might have around your house. Proof that you can make use of anything handy to get in a workout.

Halloween Fear

Yes, it’s real. I remember as a kid seeing some pretty scary shit out there on the streets and at such a young age, can wreak havoc on our little, impressionable brains.

What if scary experiences from our childhood Halloween nights have now caused us fear of other things? And more importantly, how can we get rid of the fear?

Dawn Murray is a friend of mine who I turned to for help with my own emotional shit. Dawn is a Emotional Freedom Technique practitioner and does work by phone or in person. She recently contributed her article.

Emotional Freedom Technique is a major contributing factor in weight gain and weight retention as far as I’m concerned. That fear and negative emotion is also toxic and can be stored as acidic waste in our bodies. Any sort of work you can do to remove these fears will take your body to a new level of health and peace. I highly suggest you have a look at it. Talk to Dawn for more information.

Please be safe this Halloween everyone. Kids may have a hard time seeing you in your car through their Halloween masks. Their attention is elsewhere, so please be extra careful when driving. If you don’t have to drive tonight, don’t.

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Fear Of Halloween Night

October 31st, 2007

You remember the fun you had Halloween night? Lots of tricks and treats but many of us are still suffering from a scare they got. Oh, princesses and Jedi are warm and fuzzy, but witch costumes, Dracula and ghosts conjure up scarier things and can leave your traumatized when you are young and vulnerable. Fear of Halloween night is a real fear. When as a grown man or woman you freak out if you see a spider, a mouse, a bird or moth and it sends you screaming like a little kid and when it’s all over you feel so foolish but at the time it’s as real as if those little creatures are 10 feet tall and will truly do major harm to you.

Fear Of Spiders, Ghosts or Spirits

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We call them Halloween Spooks. Were you ever afraid of them, is there still some lingering fear of spiders, ghosts, spirits or things that go bump in the night (or day)?

We find there are spiders and moths in many areas of our lives, some are just bigger and cause a greater disruption in our energy system than others.

Many people know how to get rid of fears and trauma’s with Emotional Freedom Technique but I encourage you to find out for yourself if there is some residue left from Halloween ghosts.

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10 Ways To Make Your Halloween Environmentally-Friendly

October 21st, 2007

Halloween (aka All Hallows’ Eve, or All Saints’ Eve) can be a great occasion. Of course, as with any major event there’s a bit of cleaning up involved the following morning.

Here are just a few of the ways (10, to be exact) you can make your Halloween more environmentally friendly, and spend more of that clean-up time in bed. Perfect.

10 ways to make your Halloween environmentally friendly

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Recipe: Spiced Pumpkin Apple Curry

October 20th, 2007

Halloween will soon be upon us, so I thought I’d start early with a pumpkin recipe so that you can make use of your Halloween pumpkin. A few more will follow in the coming weeks to help you figure out what to do with your used Jack ‘O Lanterns, don’t throw them away, eat them! This Spiced Pumpkin and Apple Curry is a great hardy dish, and it can also easily be made into a soup by adding more stock. It’s sure to warm you up on a chilly All Hallow’s Eve!

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