Holy yum balls!  Will you take a look at this beauty!  The ever beautiful Tara Bliss brings us this slice of heaven today for Good Food Friday.  Tara is no stranger to my site, we love her!

Tara and I are beating the same drum when it comes to food and wellness.  She recognises as we move into the cooler months that our foods adjust to support what our bodies require throughout the change in seasons.  We are after all, a product of our environment and so with this in mind, we need to remember the tweaks we can adopt to our diet and lifestyle that support our systems.  This recipe is perfect for Autumn, incorporating warm cooked fruits and ingredients that our bodies love to digest.  For those of us with weaker digestive systems, you might like to adopt the warm, cooked food approach for the most part.  In any case, here’s one to add to your weekend meal plan!

Ingredients

Pear – 4, diced 1cm x 1cm

Sour Cherries – 1/2 cup, dried

Cinnamon – 1/2 teaspoon

Coconut Sugar – 2 tablespoons

Method

In a fry pan over medium heat, cook pear, cherries, sugar and cinnamon until pear is soft.

Crumble

Coconut Oil – 4 tablespoons

Coconut Flour – 4 tablespoons

Coconut Sugar – 1 1/2 tablespoons

Rolled oats – 2 1/2 tablespoons

Almonds – 2 tablespoons, chopped

Buckwheat Groats – 1 tablespoon

Method

Combine flour, sugar and oil. Rub together to form a dough. Add remaining ingredients and mix together.

Spoon pear mixture into ring moulds. Top with the crumble and put into the oven at 180 degrees C for 20 minutes. Carefully lift ring mould off and serve with maple cinnamon icecream (below).

Maple Cinnamon Icecream 

Ingredients

Coconut Yoghurt – 2 cups

Maple Syrup – 4 tablespoons

Cinnamon – 1/2 teaspoon

Vanilla Bean – seeds from 1

Method

Combine all ingredients and freeze in cubes using ice trays. Put through your slow juicer or blend in a high speed blender.

Eat immediately.

This is an excerpt from Such Different Eats: Radical, REAL Food Recipes – by Tara Bliss and Glen Farmer

Tara Bliss is a spirit-stoked writer, mentor, yogini and inspirational speaker. She’s helped Party Girls find peace, been a lighthouse for Spirited seekers finding their way home to themselves, and even teamed up with her chef hubby to share radical, real food recipes with the world.

Her mission? To kick-start an avalanche of gutsy, fear-busting confidence and love (all with a side serve of swagger)! Think of her as your crystal-toting, skateboard-riding, raw-dessert-loving lumière, unveiling the path to peace and freedom, using Fierce and curious vulnerability as her compass.

It’s time to embrace self-love. Seize adventure. Revel in unconventionality.

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