Chef Taylor: Apple Nut Sauce breakfast

Since we've been eating a lot of  "splurge" meals during our summer "Kids Chefs" project, Taylor decided to make something containing all raw food (except the drizzle of pure maple syrup) for his breakfast. 

This is a meal we used to make even more frequently when the kids were young. 

Apple Nut Sauce recipe:

• Sliced apples
• Several cups of raw nuts (we used almonds... choose your favorite)
• Raw organic maple syrup (optional)
• Cinnamon (optional)
• Shredded coconut flakes (optional)

Cut apples into wedges and chop them into apple sauce using a food processor.  Empty them into a very large bowl and pour nuts into food processor and finely chop.  Empty nuts into large bowl and mix thoroughly.  Add cinnamon for taste.  Serve in bowls and drizzle with pure organic maple syrup and/or shredded coconut.

Chopping apples to place into food processor

Making sure all apples get chopped for sauce

Combining the nuts and apple mixture

Happy boys!  The nuts make this a filling yummy meal.

Chef Matthew: Omelet Breakfast

In our welcome blog entry, I noted that although we eat a large quantity of raw fruits and veggies, we are not completely vegan.  The animal products that we will "splurge" on occasionally are organic eggs and seafood.
Matthew had never seen an omelet, but had heard of one and wanted to make omelets for his Chef Breakfast.  He decided to make "cheese omelets" with almond cheese and he used fresh tomatoes in both Taylor and Noah's and tomatoes and onions in his.  He added a little sea salt and black pepper to finish out the recipe.

Before adding the cheese:

Matthew found flipping the omelet a bit challenging:

See how well the almond cheese melts?

The finished product:

Chef Noah--- Ice cream for Breakfast

This week Jeff is out of town and Noah has 2 T-Ball games, so we decided that "Chef Breakfasts" made more sense than dinners.

Noah chose something we call "ice cream" but is really frozen fruit pushed through the juicer (with the solid filter).  This fruit sorbet is the consistency of soft-serve ice cream.  For a long time, my kids thought this was ice cream and only in recent years have they experienced soy ice cream and realize there is a difference.

But, they still love OUR homemade ice cream!  Noah used frozen bananas and blueberries for his ice cream breakfast.
Pouring in the frozen blueberries

Noah alternated between pushing the bananas and blueberries through so he created varying shades of purple sorbet

Does this remind you of a playdough factory?

Noah and his "ice cream"

Doesn't this look tasty?  I drizzled on a little organic vanilla extract, some shredded coconut and a few carob chips