Vegan Key Lime Pie (Nut-Free, Paleo & Raw too)

Hello there. In a fit of late-night brain-freeze I’m vignetting this, barely editing, and going to bed. Better buckle up.

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On tenuous links…

I’m hosting Sweet Adventures Blog Hop this month and with the hop starting on 17 March I simply had to make the theme St. Paddy’s Day related.

However, other than the festive green colour of this pie, any relation to the holiday, country of origin, or leprechauns at the end of rainbows are tenuous at best (and quite possibly non-existent). But hey, at least it’s green and I did offer that up as a perfectly acceptable interpretation of the Luck o’the Irish theme.

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On mad science and making it up as I go…

I’ve been wanting to make this pie for years — ever since that Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream changed forever how I looked at dessert and avocados. But for a pie like this I needed a reason, an excuse if you will, although I shouldn’t as it is so ridiculously easy and healthy.

A requirement of a dessert with a green theme was a perfect excuse, and once decided no number of authentic Irish recipes or rainbows or shamrocks could change my mind.

As for the ingredients I could have just started with my Vegan Cheesecake Recipe and modified it, or used those Lemon Custard Bars and done the same — but where’s the fun in that? So my first goal for this pie was to not use nuts or cauliflower.

I knew that if all my intentions turned into a green-ooze I could always just blend it with cashews and the day would be saved, but I hoped it wouldn’t come to that. And as (Irish, not that I’m any more than 1/100th Irish) luck would have it, it didn’t.

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On finding gold…

We bought a new bed the other day. Our current one, while not in bad shape, is about 20 years old and we’d been saying  for ages it was time for a change. We decided the old one could serve quite well as a guest bed, but in preparation we had to clean out the second bedroom to make space.

Cleaning out that room is an enormous undertaking but it gave me an excuse to reorganise some of the boxes that came back from NY with us (oh 5 and a bit years ago, ahem). One such box was a collection of things from my primary school days and sitting in the middle of the hallway condensing things down I opened a thin, wide-ruled, notebook — circa second grade or so — to see what it contained.

The very first page I turned to was a short narrative about making cranberry sauce — can somebody tell me why it took me over 30 years to finally figure out I should be working with food? Anyway. The subject matter was certainly cause for pause but what I found even more amusing was the teacher’s comments, “you need to use sentences”, written in red pen next to markups indicating insertion of periods at the end of one thought and capitalisation at the start of the next.

I’m better than I used to be (as that half page about cranberry sauce was written in its entirety with a few commas and only a single full-stop at the end) but I do still love a long sentence. Also, I still love cranberry sauce made with fresh cranberries and oranges fed through an ancient meat-grinder, but that’s another recipe for another day.

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On the most unexpected of circumstances…

12 years ago this very day my traveling partner in crime and I — along with her boyfriend and two of my roommates from Colorado who happened to be visiting us in Sydney, plus a few people who we went to university with and randomly bumped into halfway around the world years later — headed out for a Sunday afternoon of debaucherous St Patrick’s Day festivities in The Rocks.

A few hours, many drinks, and a series of slightly ridiculous events and coincidences later I ended up chatting to some Aussie guy in a bar. The next night went out to dinner, two months later I moved in and rang those very same roommates in Colorado to tell them I wouldn’t be coming back, a month after that we took a trip around the world. This coming October we’ve been married for 10 years. Yeah, I didn’t expect that when I got up that morning, but who am I to argue with a bit of Irish luck. <3

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On luck and pie — which after all could have been the theme of every section anyway

And with that (whatever that was) I give you pie and wish you the very best of luck in discovering your pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

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Sweet Adventures Blog Hop: How to link-up

The March Luck o’the Irish themed hop is open for linkup until 11:59 pm, Friday 21 March [AEST Sydney time].

1. Add a link to this post somewhere in your post – You won’t be able to link up in the hop without a ‘backlink’ to this hostess post included in your post.
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If you have a question or aren’t sure of something don’t hesitate to ask. For more information detailed instructions can be found here.

Remember, SABH is open to all food bloggers but only new posts published after the hop goes live can be linked up.

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