Amaranth Soup Dish

Wednesday, March 10, 2010 at 01:33 PM

Hello everyone,

How is everyone’s day going so far?

We got something exciting to share, the people at CSN stores contact us about doing a giveaway and product review on their site Kids FurnitureWe looked over their site and looks like the got a great green line with great baby products which we are happy to review since our sister is pregnant. Always happy to find great baby things! Stay tuned for more details!

Lori and I have been quite productive today! We got up early this morning and got our workout done first thing. Today our workout was yoga. Glorious way to start the day in my opinion! Get the legs moving and blood pumping :)

Before we did our yoga workout we made a quick pre-workout sludge. A mixture of coconut oil, lemon, date paste, cacao powder! Simple and delicious. *sorry forgot to take a picture!

After our workout we enjoyed our green smoothie! (sorry no picture) but it was a collard green, granny smith apple, stevia, turmeric, ginger, cinnamon, sunflower lecithin, dulse flakes and lemon. Perfect way to start our morning after a great 45 minute yoga session!

We did enjoy some delicious eats from yesterday starting with a simple snack of our coconut kefir – made more into a shake mixed with some chorella, stevia and maca!

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And dinner was something different for us. It was an experiment. We soaked and fermented amaranth for 24 hours and than cooked it on the stove top with the same fermented water we soaked it in. We cooked the amaranth for about 20-30 minutes.

We knew that soaking grains make it easier for digestion so we thought about putting a probiotic in there to see if adding some healthy bacteria would help too! The finally result? Yes we felt it did help with our digestion. Not sure if it really fermented but the idea was nice :)

march 2010 p2r blog 464We ended up adding some of our cheez sauce over it with some fresh cilantro! So our amaranth dish turned out to be more like amaranth soup :) It was delicious!

march 2010 p2r blog 455 Amaranth soup served along side some green kraut (that we made a few days ago in the bowl)

I ended up drizzling the amaranth soup over the kraut… OMG …. HEAVENLY! Beyond words, seriously amazing :)

march 2010 p2r blog 466 The cheez sauce really made this dish. Loved it on top of my sauerkraut. Who knew? I guess I really do love just about anything with sauerkraut. ;)

And as we were watching our favorite show LOST! We decided to have more carrot cake :) I told you I could have this every night!!!!

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A little piece of heaven in a bowl! Love how we finally found a great way to use up our carrot pulp from our juices!  We will share this carrot cake recipe tomorrow :)

Also today Lori and I were busy in the kitchen un-baking some treats for our farmers markets this weekend (testing more things for our cookbook, so happy to hear that everyone is excited for it), we are trying to create some new things. We will show you all pictures of everything later this week!

Also Lori is planning on heading over seas to visit her boyfriend in Paris in a few weeks. So if you have any good tips or advice for traveling in Paris, southern France and Spain (that is where she is traveling around) please let us know. She would love any suggestions :)

Till next time,

Michelle

The Twins

L&M

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Superbowl Treats

Monday, February 8, 2010 at 07:11 AM

Hey everyone

Congrats to the Saints for being Superbowl Champs!!! Michelle was cheering for them as I was for the Colts!!

Anyways we wanted to share want we enjoyed yesterday for the big game. Even some of our friends took some nibbles and approved ; )

First up:

Pure2Raw Kabocha Lime Guacamole

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Yes we still had some leftover roasted Kabocha squash that we thought why not add it into our guacamole?? We enjoyed this with some of our Pumpkin Seed Kale Crackers…Perfect match!

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It was soooo good!! Creamy, limey, & a little bit of sweetness from the kabocha squash, Heather inspired appetizer!

IMG_3940We are loving this squash…in everything!!

And of course we could not go a day without our fermented foods

Mixed in our guacamole in with kraut &veggies

Mixed in our guacamole in with kraut &veggies

Next:

Pure2raw Cheezy Pepper Nachos

IMG_3952We poured the cheezy sauce over our Rosemary Crackers.

IMG_3945We just went for the plain cheez and cracker (our chip) match ;  ) No fancy toppings for us, sorry we are boring.

And FINALLY

Pure2raw Club Sandwich

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And it featured some eggplant bacon, courtesy of Matthew Kenney and we know  Mrs. Fitnessista loves some eggplant bacon!!

IMG_3967Oh did we eat this??

Well it was a little messy, but that was okay it was worth it ; ) It was actually kind of weird for us to eat a sandwich…. having a raw sandwich at that! We were eating a sandwich just like everyone else ;) The bread is some of Pure2raw buckwheat bread (we will add this product soon)  Heavenly :) YUMMY!

Overall we had lots of good eats that we were willing to share with others. It was great day to eat some special treats!

But wait what about dessert…

Pure2Raw Snickerdoodle Cupcakes

Inspiration from Chocolate Covered Katie snickerdoodle oatmeal.

IMG_3881 PERFECT!!!

IMG_3877Seriously our best cupcake yet!!  Love the blend of sugar and cinnamon ; )

Our friends even enjoyed some of these

IMG_3864Snickerdoodle cookies.  They loved them!! No one could guess they were raw cookies! We are going to have to make more.

In the news:

We are working on adding some new products to our online store in addition we will be announcing later today our Valentine’s Day Specials!!

Check back in because you are going to want to miss it, plus we will be sharing the details about our Valentine’s Giveaway!!!!

Till next time,

Lori

The Twins

L&M

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