Get the latest Rustic recipes from Group Recipes. http://www.grouprecipes.com/tag/rustic Great tasting ice cream pie with bananas on the bottom of the crust. Great summer dessert. http://www.grouprecipes.com/56381/soda-fountain-pie.html Buckwheat crepe batter, can be filled with any number of fillings http://www.grouprecipes.com/54406/buckwheat-crepe-batter.html Clafoutis is a rustic dessert from France. A sweet custard filling surrounds fresh cherries. Recipe and photo from Williams-Sonoma http://www.grouprecipes.com/50213/french-cherry-clafoutis.html You might want to chop the chorizo to make an easier eat, but I made it sliced and it rocked. The big prep time is for draining your ricotta overnight - so plan ahead. Enjoy. Food & Wine. http://www.grouprecipes.com/47167/crostini-with-creamy-ricotta-and-chorizo.html Carrot cake, or cookies? Why not both? This has all the fruity goodness of the carrot cake you know and love but with a lot lower sugar and fat content. I like making sandwiches with plain or strawberry cream cheese in between them! http://www.grouprecipes.com/46396/low---sugar-carroty-cookies.html I love culinary history...and one vegetable that interests me is Kale...Kale is one of the few modern veggies not far removed from it's primitive ancestors. It goes back to the 4th century mediterranean and has a very earthy, rich, slightly bitter taste that goes excellently with a fatty meat like bacon..or in this case, pancetta. If you would like to try your hand at making a pancetta, I've included a link in step one of the directions. Enjoy! http://www.grouprecipes.com/45405/orecchiette-pasta-with-kale-pancetta-and-oregano.html I have Grave's Disease. It's an incurable condition that attacks many organs, most notably your thyroid and often your eyes. Since having radiation therapy to kill my thyroid a little more than a year ago, I've suffered a steady decline in my eyesight. Macular degeneration is something I knew I was at risk of, because the rogue antibody in my blood continues to attack other organs. I'm keenly aware of the effects that my diet has on many things, and try to prepare meals that are not only comfort food but system boosters. There's a growing body of evidence to suggest that the lutein in spinach actually helps prevent cataracts, and can both prevent and even improve macular degeneration. I have to be careful, because I'm on blood thinners for another side-effect of Grave's Disease, that being blood clots. Spinach and other dark green leafy vegetables are high in vitamin K, which thickens the blood and can counteract the effects of Coumadin and thinners. The trick is not to avoid these wonderful vegetables, but to be consistent in the amounts you consume, so I try to include spinach in my pasta sauces and other entrées in order to keep the balance right. Besides being the stuff that Popeye legends are made of and that spawn kids' culinary nightmares, spinach is a delicious, earthy vegetable that makes wonderful comfort food foundations. This recipe is one of my favourites. I love a nice hearty rustic meal, and the roasted potatoes, eggs and cheese makes this so earthy! Hope you enjoy it as much as I do ... http://www.grouprecipes.com/45117/winter-spinach-potato-casserole.html Mrs. Rob gave my mother this wonderful pastry recipe when she was first married back in the 1950's. It's one of our family heirlooms, having past through 2 more generations since it was first handed down, and having come through generations before that. It's great with a double crust apple pie, mile high peach pie, or two homemade chocolate or butterscotch pies. Some people will tell you to only use cold or ice cold water in a pastry recipe, or the dough will get tough. However, the boiling water used in this recipe has led to nothing but the finest flakey pastry you've ever tasted. [makes 2 crusts] * See my Rustic Harvest Apple Pie Recipe for something decadent and comforting to wrap this around. http://www.grouprecipes.com/45032/flakey-pie-crust-pasty.html My family hails from Waterloo County, with a rich German Mennonite history, and some of the most delicious food you've ever tasted in your life. One of our family's favourite comfort foods was the homemade apple pie that my mother used to bake for Sunday dinner after church each week. Her recipe came straight from a Mennonite favourite, and continues to be passed down in our family. This pie was especially good when it was made out of the apples we helped pick during one of our annual fall outings to a local orchard. There's nothing better than picking a crisp, fall day to make a family trip to the orchard and pick a bushel of Macintosh apples together. It's a great way to reconnect with your kids. (No batteries required.) Wonderful when served with a dolop of french vanilla ice cream, or a slice of old Canadian cheddar cheese. http://www.grouprecipes.com/45030/rustic-harvest-apple-pie.html Delicious sandwich. http://www.grouprecipes.com/44836/black-olive-curry-cheese-salad-sandwich.html