Trees of Transition

Comfort for people going through life transitions by sharing thoughts, photos, cards, and recipes.


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Dairy-Free Apple Crisp and Honey Apple Pie

Honey, Dairy-free, Apple Crisp

My husband is dairy-free right now, so I’ve been figuring out dairy-free recipes. I made up this recipe for the neighborhood Oktoberfest cook out, and it was great!


12 cups peeled and sliced apples – you may use a mixture of Fuji and Honeycrisp apples
One lemon, zested and juiced (1 tsp zest and 2 Tblsp. juice)
1/2 cup honey
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground ginger

Crumble:
3 cups quick oats
1/4 cup coconut oil
2/3 cup honey
1 1/2 teaspoons cinnamon
½ teaspoon nutmeg
1 teaspoon vanilla
3/4 cup chopped pecans

Preheat the oven to 350°F.
Mix together the apples with the filling ingredients and pour into a greased 9 x 13” glass baking dish.

Mix together the crumble ingredients, and when it is crumbly, pour it over the top of the apples.

Place in the oven and bake until the apples are soft and the topping is nicely browned, which is 35-45 minutes.
Serves 6 to 8 people.

Here’s an apple pie recipe that is also dairy-free and sugar-free!

Honey Apple Pie

This pie is great for everyone, but for especially for those who have to watch sugar intake. The honey makes the sweetness light and not heavy at all.

4 cups peeled, sliced apples

2 Tblsp. lemon juice

½ cup honey

1 tsp cinnamon

¼ tsp. nutmeg

1/8 tsp. ground ginger

¼ cup. white flour or arrowroot powder

1 double pie crust for an 8-inch pie (See my favorite recipe here: Grandma’s Pie Crust )

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees F.

Mix together all of the ingredients except the pie crust. Taste the apple mixture, and you can adjust the honey and cinnamon to taste.

Pour into the pie crust, and then place the other crust on top. Prick the top crust (make a fun design!) and place in the oven for 40-50 minutes or until the crust is golden brown and the juices are starting the flow.

Makes one pie.

Copyright 2019

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~Mary Hope


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Fun Book Recommendations: Mainly Focused on Food and Love

Curling up with a riveting book is a great autumn activity, now that you might have more time as the kids are going back to school! (I have been getting back into reading–especially during my one year old’s two-three hour naptime!) Here are some fun and entertaining books that I have read recently:

My Italian Bulldozer: A Paul Stuart Novel (1) (Paul Stuart Series)

Besides having a great title, this quick to read, unique romance novel takes you to Italy where a newly-dumped food writer gets persuaded by his editor to finish his latest cookbook in Italy. The man gets conned at the rental car desk, gets thrown in prison, but because he befriended a stranger on the plane, he calls this guy (who has connections) who gets him out and helps him find a vehicle: A bulldozer! As he drives through the countryside to the town where he is going to write for three weeks, he has time to think. He also enjoys that people respect him more and drive more politely around him because he is in a bulldozer, not a dinky rental car! After arriving in the town, he comes down with a big crush on a fellow writer he meets while working on his book, and then more unexpected ladies show up in town to get his attention. This food writer figures out himself more while eating and writing about mushrooms, wine, and more and enjoying driving his Italian bulldozer around the countryside. It’s a fun book. Check it out here:

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Falling Dots 🍃 

Specks of yellow — fall.

The wind levered them down,

Or sprung them loose,

Or let them go.

Like little cares — falling– golden in their time —

Locust leaves that

Symbolizes hope and freedom.

 

~Mary Hope

 

P.S. Thank you for stopping by! I insert affiliate links, such as Amazon, into my posts to share interesting books and products. If you buy something or start a registry, I receive income, for which I am thankful. So…

— shop on  Amazon

–shop at my Etsy photo card/notecard/art shop: Trees of Transition Art & Design

–keep on reading this blog.

Thank you again, and peace to you and your family!

~Mary Hope


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Happy All Saints Day!

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We can celebrate all the people we know who show “saintly” qualities today, and we can ponder the official saints that have gone before us. We can learn from them and follow in their footsteps!

And here’s more shots of autumn:

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Big Kids Do It Too

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The toddler kept dropping leaf by leaf over the cement wall into the pond–ginkgo yellow on the gray water.

Minutes later high school boys in PE garb goofing off threw up an armful of brown oak leaves which cascaded gently around them as they laughed.

Big kids do it too. I’m so glad.

Copyright 2014 by M. H. Campbell

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