So I guess with this post I officially accept fall. I adore the season, but there comes a certain mourning every year as the earth basically begins to shutdown. Not to be a downer, but it makes me think of death. However, as a Christian, this is not such a hard topic to think of. God is teaching me to consider what is eternal, and that worrying about the rest is a waste of the precious little time I am alive. “For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for a little time and then vanishes away.” (James 4:14b).

For these bread recipes, they may take a little getting used to. I promise some simple (no dehydrator) recipes are coming up! However, if you are bold and really want some raw zucchini bread you are in the right place.

Carrot Bread
dry ingredients:
1 c buckwheat groats (soaked and dehydrated)
1 c sunflower seeds (soaked and dehydrated)
1 c golden flax seeds
2 t cinnamon
1 t salt
1/2 t cloves
(or 1 T Frank’s Finest Autumn Dessert Blend)

wet ingredients:
2 c carrots (cubed)
1/2 c water
1/2 c honey
1/2 c walnuts (optional) (soaked and dehydrated)
1/4 c olive oil
1/4 c Irish moss gel

Grind all dry ingredients to a flour. If you have a high speed blender this takes seconds. Add flour to food processor. Blend wet ingredients thoroughly. It may take a few blend cycles to get all those carrots. Slowly pour wet ingredients into dry ingredients until combined and doughy. Using buckwheat flour, cover the bottom of a large mixing bowl, place dough in bowl, dust more buckwheat flour over the dough, and knead and shape into a loaf. Place the “loaf” onto a dehydrator sheet and dehydrate overnight at 105〫F. After about 8-10 hours slice loaf. Then separate loaf slices and continue dehydrating a few hours or until no longer doughy :)

The zucchini bread is exactly the same except do not blend the zucchini but combine by hand.

Zucchini Bread
dry ingredients:
1 c buckwheat groats (soaked and dehydrated)
1 c sunflower seeds (soaked and dehydrated)
1 c golden flax seeds
2 t cinnamon
1 t Celtic Sea salt
1/2 t nutmeg

wet ingredients:
2 c shredded zucchini
1/2 c water
1/2 c honey*
1/4 c olive oil
1/4 c Irish moss gel

All you vegans do.not.freak.out. After more than three years of being beegan (vegan + bee products) I started incorporating some raw dairy into my diet for varying reasons. The bread happens to be quite tasty with chèvre, which is a soft raw goat cheese.

*I used molasses in the zucchini bread pictured, but I highly recommend using honey instead or a combination. I’ve made both and the honey sweetened loaf wins :)

Next week: cabbage apple salad.