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Hope everyone is having a wonderful day It was a glorious day here in NC… sunny and 70 degrees!!! I hope that means Spring is right around the corner
Got some request to share what we did for the banana pancakes. Remember this recipe we just threw together and it is real basic and few ingredients.
So here we go!
Pure2Raw Recipe: Easy Banana Pancakes
Ingredients:
1 banana, mashed
2 tbsp flax meal
1 tbsp vanilla
1 tbsp lucuma (or maca)
2 tbsp coconut kefir (or any yogurt or milk of your preference)
Directions:
In a large bowl place all ingredients and stir till combined.
Scoop out onto dehydrator sheet
Dehydrate for about 8 hours than flip and dehydrate for another 8 hours or till reached desired texture, soft or crispy.
*Note: if you do not have a dehydrator you may sauté on a skillet like you would a normal pancake.
And you have a very easy and rich banana pancake that is raw, gluten free, and vegan and contains no sugar besides the banana!
It does not get much easier than than folks! Creating a raw pancake is something Michelle and I have been trying to do for some time now, these is not quite final but they are delicious banana flavored and moist pancake that sure to hit your sweet spot
More recipes to come this week like our raw carrot cake and kelp noodle dish!! My favorites
More news:
Check out the lovely Shannon Marie post on more about our story! And what she did with our crackers and flatbreads for her Oscar night Shannon you are so creative!
Also the lovely Elena has created a great online vegan community called Back to Eden. So check it out! Elena thanks for putting this great community together
And tomorrow is the last day of our sale and St. Patty’s Day specials! So get your orders in my tomorrow to guarantee the sale!
Note: For those of you who have ordered shirts please be patient with us as some of them are back ordered till next. As soon as we get them in we will ship them to you!!!Also we have updated some of our t-shirts pictures!
Hope every one is enjoying their day. We are really excited because we finally have a nice warm weekend here in NC which is great for the farmers markets
We got some questions regarding our workouts – mainly with the Tracy Anderson mat method. This is the end of our 2nd week of doing her exercises which we do about 5 times a week. And we are starting to feel like we are getting stronger and getting a little bit more definition in our bodies. We know it is a slow process along with everything else in life but we thoroughly enjoy her fitness concept. So we plan to continue it! We have not been doing much running lately just about once a week. Yoga about 2-3 times a week!
After yesterdays Tracy’s session we enjoyed another great post workout pudding! Similar to ones you saw yesterday! Love all the different combinations we seem to be just throwing together, yet all have some main ingredients like lemon or lime and something green to help alkalize us!
As I mentioned yesterday we created a delicious avocado pudding that we just absolutely LOVED! Plan to make this at least once a week You do need a special ingredient to make it.. sunflower lecithin or any emulsifier would do like guar gum, etc. Though we personal love sunflower lecithin we use it in many of our recipes. Love the results it provides puddings and smoothies. What it does is that it combines all the ingredients together and gives a nice lightness to the puddings. It helps provide puddings especially this one, such creamy, and lightness that it feels like you are almost eating air!
Pictures just do not do this avocado pudding justice!
We inhaled this pudding in like zero point 2 seconds
Pure2Raw Recipe: Mesquite Avocado Pudding
Ingredients:
one ripe avocado, pitted
1 tbsp mesquite
1 tbsp carob
3 packets of stevia or any sweetener of your choice
Place all ingredients into food processor and blend on high speed for a few seconds. Stop and scrap down the sides and blend again for a few more seconds till it is fully combined and light and fluffy texture!
Optional topping: sprinkle with more mesquite
And place in a nice martini glass and enjoy!
I guess I did not like it Wiped the class clean!
We have finally come to the end of our fermented drink and foods series!! We will be showing here soon how to make water kefir! Another easy and healthy drink for you to incorporate into your daily life Water kefir has become a staple in our daily life. Video coming soon and plus an update on how our sauerkraut in a bowl is doing!
News:
Going along with our bloggy shirts we will be adding a few more t-shirts to our online store. Hope you like them!
All these shirts that we have been showing that are for sale are from our older sister who just launched her own organic high quality t-shirt company! We are so excited for our sister because these has been a life time dream and project of hers and now she is finally doing it!! She just needed a little extra push from us to get it up and running
We hope every one likes the shirts and they will be added to our online store sometime today! So get those orders in Please help spread the word about our sisters new t-shirt company called Raw Threads! She is working on her online website and once she launches the site we will let everyone know but for now you can buy them from us!
Also for our Pure2Raw online goodies will be adding some St. Patty’s Day treats like Mint Chip Kremes, ‘Green’ Cookie and all of our ‘green line’ flat breads will be on sale from starting this weekend till March 10th. **They will be added to our online store soon!
And speaking of wonderful lady entrepreneurs following their dreams check out the ever so lovely Eating Bender as she embarks on her journey of starting her own company Pursuing our Passion! I wish her and her business partner Jill all the success. Owning a business is a very challenging thing to pursue but one that is worth it in the end especially if it something you are truly passionate about! We know Jenn and Jill will do great!
Hope everyone is following their dreams and loving life to the fullest
Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend We did though it was a busy one. Michelle and I were in the kitchen a lot prepping food and creating a bunch of new recipes!!!
We took Saturday off from working out, which it is always nice to take a day off. Although on Sunday we did about 30 minutes of a mix of things for a workout like yoga, jump rope, stairs, and some calisthenics plus a 20 minute run outside. It felt nice to get outside for an easy run Looking forward to Spring for sure! We both just felt like doing a bunch of different thing yesterday instead of the same old thing. It was great to mix things up! Keeps the body guessing.
Made this quick and easy post workout pudding
And of course we ate well over the weekend. Here are just a few highlights!
We had some carrot coconut wrapper left so we decided to create sauerkraut arugula wrap out of it stuffed with some pumpkin seeds
Heavenly!!! YUM YUM!!!
Easy, simple and sooo satisfying. Loving the carrot coconut wrapper!
And to go along with this lovely wrap was more sauerkraut and arugula (fresh from the local farmers market)
And as I mentioned before about what we had in store for our dessert!!! Well we got the inspiration from the lovely Jessica who is so creative with her desserts. Once we saw this cookie pie we just knew we had to make it with our twist on it
Here it is Pure2Raw’s Gluten free Vegan Raw Chocolate Chip Cookie Pie
And this cookie pie is also nut free and only sweetened with stevia!
AMAZING! There are no words to describe this mouth watering dessert. Not only did it taste great and like cookie dough but knowing that there were no nuts and no sugar was even better A truly guilt free dessert!Thanks Jessica for the inspiration!!!
And dinner last night was a glorious salad
Watercress, spinach, nutritional yeast, fermented veggies, turmeric, apple cider vinegar, sea salt, and topped with quinoa and cinnamon and coriander seeds.
Once again heavenly! Not a bad way to end the weekend eh?
We are also making our own compost and growing some cabbage… more on that tomorrow! Fun stuff over here
Happy Saturday to you all! I hope you all are having a glorious weekend so far
Our farmers market this morning was a good one though it was freezing and windy! But we managed to pull through!Going along with our typical farmers market in Carrboro we got some great news to share! We got into another local farmers market here in Durham. We are totally excited about this because Durham is one of the largest farmer markets in the nation!!!!!! Though we are a little nervous :/
Yesterday we did manage to get some Tracy Anderson workout action done and got to enjoy this post workout pudding!
Hemp seeds, black sesame seeds, yacon syrup, chorella and splash of water! Michelle and I are just loving our puddings lately! There are such fun for us
A little bit later we enjoyed a glorious green smoothie
Green kale, granny smith apples, water, stevia, lemon, fresh ginger, coconut oil, maca and sunflower lecithin
We had an early dinner yesterday because from our intense morning workout sure got our metabolism going all day long! Love that!
Fermented veggies, topped with turmeric, black sesame seeds and fresh garlic! (yes we love raw garlic. When eating garlic it just feels so powerful and it feels like it is just killing all the ‘bad’ stuff inside of me) I know weird but I just love it!
And a side of lightly dehydrated kale chips topped with a random roasted butternut squash! Perfect!
Than for dessert last night we gladly devoured our favorite pudding though this time with a twist!
A creamy and thick key lime avocado chia pudding with some mesquite in there! It was absolutely heavenly and very filling I must say which I love. In love with mesquite!!! Best ingredient to change some dishes up I must say. Go ahead and buy some and see what you think
Seriously making this pudding again in the future. We just threw mesquite in to see how it would taste and it was amazing!!!!
And sipped on some homemade kombucha tea afterwards as our night cap
Our morning today started at 5am and some lemon water. Before heading out the door for the market Michelle whipped up a simple coconut kefir basil mint smoothie. YUM YUM! Wiped the cup clean!
Getting back from the market we made a carrot cake wrap! To die for I must say!
I know Katie would be so proud! Ever since Katie make all these delicious carrot cake eats like her Carrot Cake Pancake roll ups and carrot cake pancakes! Michelle and I have been craving to create something carrot cake of our own And this is what we came up with!!
Raw – Gluten Free – Vegan Carrot Cake Wraps!
SOOOO GOOOOOOOOD! Craving more of it but there is no more we ate it all
But that is ok because wait until you see what we are creating for our dessert tomorrow night!!!!! Hint: what got some inspiration for this lovely lady!
And our latest kraut meal is paired with another favorite
Kelp Kraut Noodles
All we did was take our sauerkraut blend in blender with some spices and tahini to make an easy and poured over some kelp noodles. And add in some arugula! Easy and delicious We just love pretty much anything with kelp noodles
Here is how we make sauerkraut (sorry for the blurry video – not sure why it is so blurry, ugh)
Now go buy some cabbage and make yourself a nice, easy and healthy homemade sauerkraut. Please let us know if you make and report back! We love to hear from you!
Take Care. Thanks for joining us again for another Pure2raw lesson!
Today’s video is on coconut kefir. We have made coconut kefir before using water kefir grains and it came out alright, but we realized we wanted to test out milk kefir grains. We liked it better, but it does still do fine with water kefir grains.
Ingredients:
2 cups of coconut milk (or any milk of choice)
2 measuring cups
wooden spoon
plastic strainer
milk kefir grains
We got our kefir grains from Marilyn the Kefir lady. She sends you the grains as I mentioned in a bag all ready to go. You just have to add your 2 cups of milk. Directions are provided along with some recipes. Marilyn also sells water kefir grains and Kombucha cultures.
Another source to get kefir grains, water kefir grains, and Kombucha cultures is Cultures for Health . This is where we got our water grains and mother Kombucha, which will be some of our next videos!! Cultures for health sell their milk kefir grains dehydrated, so when you receive them you have to rehydrate them before you start making your kefir. Again, directions are provided.
Here is a quick video of how we make our coconut kefir puddings that you see all over our blog.
It is really Monday again, seriously where does the weekend go?
Though since we really never get a day off from work …everyday is the same to us We never get weekends!
Michelle and I did get to eat some really fun and of course interesting food over the weekend!
We have been having some juices and green smoothies of course though treated ourselves to a fun and out of this world dinner on Saturday night.
Seriously craving this dinner again – a-m-a-z-i-n-g!
We like to call it our open face tortilla!Or a.k.a tostada – Twins style! We have made one before here.
And have made some before for an event we did last year- huge hit!
We love our tostada’s. Not sure why we do not make them more. Umm… that’s going to change!
The base is a coconut tahini wrapper we made topped with sauerkraut, fresh cilantro and pureed up roasted veggies (our sauce)!
Our dinner all together now
Definitely plan on making this dish again Quick, easy, and full of flavor. It really felt like we were eating a tortilla it was heavenly!!!! Seriously reminded us of a typical white tortilla that you can get from any Mexican restaurant but this one only had two ingredients!!!!!! Love that. Great dinner that was easy on our stomachs to digest due from the sauerkraut and simple, fresh ingredients!
Last nights dinner was another success… though it was a in form of a monstrous salad.
This salad was full of arugula, romaine, and more roasted veggies Not bad eh?
Dessert was even better – we split our pecan banana cupcake with caramel drizzle. Love our raw desserts – full of flavor that splitting this was just enough to satisfy us both
Due to all the request for more videos of us making more fermented drinks and foods we plan to share some this week! Stay tuned
Been a busy Monday for us and we got a long night ahead… exciting things finally happening over here! We also have a special guest post that we did that we will reveal tomorrow.
Everyone ready for the big hockey game tonight?? Go USA!!
Lori and I enjoyed a nice relaxing night last night, nothing beats a good glass of wine & a movie : )
Hope everyone was able to check out all the amazing giveaways. Although we forgot some other great giveaways, Debbie is giving away Glass Dharma Straws and SPARK book and Michele, Raw Juice Girl , is giving away a $30 gift certificate to Glass Dharma Straws, and Kristen is giving away nut butters.
Again sorry for the short post yesterday, we had a long day. Got up early for the farmers market, which was a great a day to be outside! The sun was out ; )
Following the market we attended our first farmers market meeting. It was the annual meeting, where all the vendors come together and discuss the market, budget, etc. I must say it was interesting…and long. It went on for about 4 hours ugh. But we are very excited to be apart of a Nationally Recognized Farmer Market. The Carrboro’s farmers market even has been in magazines such as Bon Appetite!! We are ranked third in the nation.
Working at a farmers market has its ups and downs, just like any other job. But it is fun to get out of the house and talk with our customers!!
Do you support your local farmers market? If yes, Great!! If no, why? Do you not have one in your area?
We are very lucky to say we are surrounded my amazing farmers!
We did not workout yesterday…gasp..But we are okay with it, because life just sometimes gets in the way. And your body does need a break! Although our goal today is to fit a workout in…Tracy Anderson and yoga hopefully!
We have been seeing and hearing about a lot more people giving fermented foods a try!! ; )
We know fermented foods can be scary, but once you do make them a few times you will see how easy they are….and become addicted like us! Would you all like us to do some more videos on how we make our fermented foods? Just let us know!
We got a busy day…lots of prep work for the week ahead, cleaning, paying bills, cleaning out garage, and other house work!
We also want to wish our friend Brittany Happy 25th Birthday!!
We made some overnight oats in honor of Brittany because we know she loves them. But our idea got even more inspiration from our friend Stephanie….the key ingredient KEFIR.
You all know Lori and I are big fans of our homemade coconut kefir, we have it almost everyday. Well here is our RAW version of these two ladies recipes.
Pure2raw: Raw Overnight Buckwheat Groats
Serves 1
1/3 cup buckwheat groats (soaked overnight, then rinsed in the morning)
It was amazing!! Brittany and Stephanie we thank you because we think we found our new weekend morning breakfast!!!
We use to eat soaked buckwheat groats all the time last year. But did take a break from them, boy have we missed them! Why did we take a break? We were trying to simplify our diets as we heal, so we took most nuts and seeds out of our diet as of late. We have been playing around with different foods, rotating things back in and seeing how we do.
How is your Friday?? So glad everyone enjoyed our story about us becoming bakers and creating Twin Cakes Bakery. In cased you missed them you read them here, Part 1 and Part 2.
Don’t forget we announce the winner to our giveaway tomorrow...so get your comments in today!
We have been extremely busy here…non-stop in the kitchen getting all our Twin Cakes Valentine’s Day Orders in.
We even didn’t get to eat till after 1. Just been snacking on this and that in the morning…a random day of eats for us. But the weird thing is that we have been feeling good. By not eating too much in the morning has actually given us more energy…which sometimes is hard for us because we were raised you have to eat breakfast.
Well this maybe true but we are starting to realize for us not having a huge breakfast has been nice for our energy levels. It is hard not to eat right away in the morning, but as long as we are busy we do not even think about eating, sort of ; )
Do you have mornings were you do not eat much? How do you feel? What are your thoughts on eating breakfast or no breakfast?
Now do not get us wrong, we do eat something, just not a full blow meal! And this past week we have not been eating till around 10 am. We are playing around with our morning eats, which means we have been having later workouts. We will keep you posted, but in the mean time check out Gena’s great tips for breakfast. I could go for some of those green eggs!!!
Anyways here are some food we have been eating these past few days
Kraut Salad drizzled with tahini
Avocado pudding drizzled with yacon
roasted butternut squash & brussel sprouts, with fermented veggies and some white stuff, aka coconut oil ; )
Coconut kefir pudding with coconut oil, hemp protein and yacon
pure2raw cracker wtih tahini (that we blended with cashews and maple)...sweet and savory!!
pure2raw cheez cracker dipped into cashew tahini maple spread...it was uniquely good!!
High raw gluten-free foodie enthusiasts. Passionate about fitness, nutrition, health, cooking/baking, running, yoga, wine and much much more. We are fraternal twins who are raw gluten free vegan chefs/bakers. Living our life long dream running our own bakery - Twin Cakes and raw uncooked bakery Pure2raw. We hope to inspire others to appreciate food as nourishment to the body. Embark on a healthier lifestyle where you enjoy food and exercise, and have fun living your best life to the fullest...pure&simple.
It was a glorious day here in NC… sunny and 70 degrees!!! I hope that means Spring is right around the corner 
And you have a very easy and rich banana pancake that is raw, gluten free, and vegan and contains no sugar besides the banana!
Till next time,
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Lots of kraut and veggies : ) Again love all the sticky notes!!
Kraut sandwich on our 
It was amazing!! Brittany and Stephanie we thank you because we think we found our new weekend morning breakfast!!!
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