'Apple Pie' for Breakfast

This is a recipe from my dad, who teaches a course called Aging Reversal: An Ayurvedic Approach.

My daughter calls it apple pie, and the taste is similar, with absolutely no sugar!  It is intended as a first course to stimulate the appetite and help digestion, to be followed by oatmeal or something similarly hearty.

1-2 cups of water
2-4 cloves
1 cinnamon stick (optional)
1/2 cup - 1 cup of raisins

boil together in a pot on the stove.

Add to boiling water:

2-4 apples or pears (peeled)

cook for about 5 minutes and enjoy.

If there is leftover liquid it can be enjoyed as apple juice.

Healthy Mama Oatmeal Cookies

This recipe is adapted from epicurious.com. They call them lactation cookies and they are excellent for moms (and kids), whether or not they are breastfeeding.

This is a double recipe.  You can cook and freeze them.

Ingredients

8 Tbsp water
4 Tbsp flaxseed meal 

1 1/4 cups butter

3/4 cup peanut butter
1 cup agave (or 1 1/2 cups brown sugar)
1/2 cup honey

4 Lg eggs
2 tsp vanilla
4 cups flour
2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp salt
6 cups thick cut oats
1 cup chocolate chips

2 cups raisins
4 tbsp Brewers Yeast (no substitutions)


Preheat oven to 375.

Mix flaxseed meal and water, set aside 3-5 minutes.
Cream butter, peanut butter, agave and honey.
Add eggs.
Stir flaxseed mix into butter mix and add vanilla.
Beat until well blended.
Sift: dry ingredients, except oats and choc chips and raisins.
Add butter mix to dry ingredients
Stir in the oats and then the choc chips.
Drop on parchment paper on baking sheet.
Bake 7-9 minutes.