Low Glycemic Superfood from Backyard Honey Mesquite Desert Trees In Ahwatukee

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Ahwatukee's The Pomegranate Cafe's Creation with My Flour Honey Mesquite Vanilla Pancakes...Beyond My Imagination for Delicious!!

Presented here is focus on one type of tree among edible desert plants, namely that of the honey mesquite, a slight twist to native velvet mesquite desert trees in the sonoran desert.  Use of mesquite flour for baking from honey mesquite trees becomes part of staying fit and healthy, and I highly prefer it over commercially available standard mesquite flour; either should be used in a 2 to 1 proportion of whole wheat flour to mesquite flour with sweetening to taste.  Unlike widely seen native mesquite trees in the Sonoran desert and much of Phoenix, honey mesquite trees grow along the Rio Grande River and base of the Grand Canyon, high-desert country; so mine were acquired from a nursery in Scottsdale for my backyard.  Doubling up as a dessert or pleasantly palatable fiber-rich meal staple over rice, potatoes, or bread, I developed a superfood recipe that well complements other superfood recipes. It's a savory sweet that's terrific tasting with a natural undertone of cinnamon.  Except for the summer season I bring a new idea for serving the cupcakes as a dessert; my mesquite beans, used interchangeably with mesquite pods, can only be harvested mid-summer to autumn, but allowed to dry out substantially first before grinding them into mesquite pod flour to make golden honey mesquite cupcakes ideal for noshing in the late fall to early spring.  Otherwise, both blender and sifter will become so sticky, they cease to function.  You can see why patience is required to start the baking process, let alone eating the yummy cupcakes.

Concept of Edible Landscaping

My backyard of sonoran desert plants has become edible landscaping with honey mesquite trees planted in 2007 that provide tasty food in a sustainable living sort of way. A friend from Laredo, Texas liked chewing on honey mesquite pods before moving here to Ahwatukee, but doesn't do likewise with velvet mesquite pods here, while another one chews on velvet mesquite pods as a snack.  A Morgan horse I ride likes the honey mesquite pods I feed it as much as carrots prior to saddling him up. My curiosity was piqued enough to make mesquite flour using my own honey mesquite trees.

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