20 • December 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC. Health Begins in the Kitchen:


SONOMA COUNTY, CA. ~ As an Italian-American kid growing up in Brook- lyn, this was the holiday cookie of my childhood.


Since they are made


with almond paste, they are naturally gluten free. Using fl ax eggs, this recipe is also vegan.


Requirements: Food Processor Parchment paper or a silicon baking sheet


INGREDIENTS: 1 teaspoon ground fl axseed 1 tablespoon water 7 ounce tube almond paste ¼ cup cane sugar


¼ teaspoon aluminum-free baking powder


½ cup Mediterranean pine nuts


DIRECTIONS Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Make a fl ax egg white by mix- ing the ground fl ax- seed in 1 tablespoon of water. Beat with a fork until gooey and set aside.


Slice the tube of al- mond paste into 1 inch slices and place in a food processor with an S-blade. Process until the slices are broken up. Mix the sugar and the baking powder together and add them to the al- mond paste. Process until the mixture looks like crumbs. Add the fl ax


Italian Pignoli Cookies Recipe by Dr. Joanne Mumola Williams creator of www.FoodsForLongLife.com


egg and process until the mixture clumps together. Form 14 little balls, about one scant table- spoon each, and shove


until they stick. Flatten and form each one in the shape of a cookie. Gen- tly place the cookies on a cookie sheet lined with parchment or a silicon baking sheet. Place the cookies in the preheated oven and bake until they spread out, get a lit- tle puffy and slightly browned, about 15 to 17 minutes. They will be very soft but will fi rm up as they cool. Remove the cook- ies from the oven and let cool on the cookie


each one into a bowl containing the pine nuts. You may have to gently wet your hands to get the balls a little sticky. Push the nuts into the top and bottom of each cookie


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sheet until they are fi rm enough to transfer to a wire rack, about 5 to 7 minutes. Cool on the rack and serve.


These will disappear


in a fl ash so you might need to double the rec- ipe.


Nutrition: FOURTEEN COOKIES


Per cookie: 111 calories, 7 g total fat, 0.6 g saturated fat, 0 mg cholesterol, 74 mg ome- ga-3 and 2,411 mg omega-6 fatty acids, 2 g protein, 11 g carbohydrates, 1 g dietary fi ber, and 8 mg sodium.


The Punitentiary #2 Mr. Mushroom could never understand why he wasn’t looked on as a real fun guy.


When the Nomadic tree senses danger it packs up its trunk and leaves.


I saw something similar to moss the other day, but I didn’t know what to lichen it to.


I’ve planted part of a riding whip. I’m hoping for a nice crop.


The young pine sapling was admonished by his father. Apparently he’d been knotty.


“Anger ... it’s a paralyzing emotion ... you can’t get anything done. People sort of think it’s an interesting, passionate, and igniting feeling. I don’t think it’s any of that ...it’s helpless ... it’s absence of control, and I need all of my skills, all of the control, all of my pow- ers ... and anger doesn’t provide any of that. I have


no use for it whatsoever.” Toni Morrison


Sebastopol • 829-2477 20 • December 2017 • UPBEAT TIMES, INC.


“You live but once; you might as well be amusing.” ~ Coco Chanel 5800 Guerneville Rd


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