dessert – pure2raw

Best meal yet in Spain plus rating restaurants

Saturday, April 17, 2010 at 03:06 AM

Hello luvs,

Sorry that I have been out of touch lately. Getting internet access is not always the easiest to do over here. Glad to see that everyone enjoyed the fabulous market in Barcelona. It really is a cool place!

Now for our dinner that evening was special for Gary because he loves seafood paella. Therefore we were on a hunt to find the best place for seafood paella in Barcelona. After doing some research we finally found a restaurant that was known for its paella. We walked towards the area where this restaurant was located but it did not open till 8pm so we went to a cute little cafe/bar area right on the water and had a few cocktails!

It was a cute outdoor seating cafe. It was a little cute old but the drinks helped

Gary finally got his sangria. He loves sangria. I am not really too much of a fan because it is a tad too sweet for me. I got a glass of white wine.

Time for dinner. Can Majo was the restaurant that got great reviews for its paella.

Had a cute outdoor seating area with heaters!

Restaurant was right on the water as well.

I was happy to have the heat from the heaters!!!

Got ourselves a lovely bottle of red wine. I love how you can get a inexpensive bottle of wine over here and taste amazing!!

Our view at dinner. One thing that I have noticed here in Barcelona is how active everyone is here. There were a ton of people running/exercising! It was so great to see that! Though this did make me feel guilty because I have not worked out since I have been overseas here on my vacation. I feel bad about it but I just do not have the energy because of a few reasons a) I am not eating my normal eats and b) we walk for over 5 hours everyday and stand a lot. Therefore I do not have the energy to get going. I know it happens while traveling but I am looking forward to working out again when I get back to the States!!

What do you do when you travel? Do you workout out or just take the time off from working out? If you do not workout do you feel guilty about not working out?

Dinner time! I got a got cheese salad to start because Gary and I were splitting the seafood paella. At majority of the restaurants here there is a minimum of 2 persons for paella. And I know he did not want the vegetarian paella so I said I would split it with him.

Besides having corn on the salad it was delicious!

So colorful and the goat cheese was fantastic.

Gary enjoying his seafood paella I just picked out the seafood and gave it to him!

Here is my paella after having picked out the seafood. It was the best paella that I have yet!!!

Gary’s plate with all the seafood. I am so smart Gary really enjoyed his seafood paella. Flavors as amazing so light yet full of flavor!!!

Look at the pan they bring it out in!

And dessert was homemade chocolate truffles. They were heavenly! Rich and chocolately!!!!

Perfect dinner and evening!

How do you go about finding restaurants? Do you search online or just walk around till you find something? Are you a person who rates restaurants? When you pick out a restaurant to go go by rating, food options, price, or location?

For me I go by food options and locations. Gary like to go by price than ratings. With my trip so far the restaurants we have gone to have been a mix of all of them. Some have been rated high and others we went by food options! Price has been an issue as well we try not to go to the most expensive places either, we are on a budget while traveling over here

Stayed tuned for more great eats in Barcelona plus my all time favorite thing to eat so far here in Spain.

Till next time,

Lori

The Twins

L&M

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End of raw dessert week

Sunday, November 15, 2009 at 04:38 PM

Theme Week: Raw Desserts

Good evening loves,

How was everyone’s Sunday? Good I hope

I must say I can’t complain especially when this was my breakfast

We ended up eating each side individually and added more whip cream and chocolate sauce

Ooeey gooey smores goodness!   Michelle and I had one more smores left over so we decided to treat ourselves this lovely Sunday morning with a nice treat!

Followed by some warm almond milk with spices

Here are the last few sips left of it

Also, we have some of this to enjoy the next two days

Our raw sauerkraut is done fermenting. We let this batch go for 3 weeks.

Bottled it up in our mason jars

Ok now time to round up our raw dessert theme week:

Our twisted pumpkin pie recipe

We called this a twisted pumpkin pie because we followed Averie’s base and idea but put our own twist on it

I must say creating all these delicious desserts was so much fun we plan to do another dessert week again soon We have so many more ideas that we want to share… we get so excited about creating new raw food recipes… We are dorks!

Pure2Raw Recipe: Twisted Pumpkin Pie

Crust/Crumb topping Ingredients:

1/2 cup almond meal

2 dates, pitted

Throw the whole 2 ingredients into a blender and blend till crumbly.

**now our goal with this crust was to create more crumb texture therefore we did not add any agave or more dates. If we did that it would have turned out more like a crust ( real sticky and holding together well)

Here is what our crumb topping looked like

  See our crumb is just barely holding together… more like a little crumb texture. Set topping in a bowl while you make the filling.

Pumpkin Pie Filling

Ingredients:

• 1 cup pumpkin puree (fresh pumpkin – the more raw route or canned – whatever you have or prefer)
• 2 dates, pitted
• 2 tbsp irish moss **optional – we added this because it really helps lighten recipes
• 1/2 tsp cinnamon
• 1 tsp vanilla
• pinch ginger
• pinch nutmeg
• 4 tbsp water

Directions:

Place all ingredients into a blender

Here is what irish moss looks like when you are done soaking it and than pureeing it up

Puree all ingredients till fully combined (it takes a little bit due to the dates)

AND THAT IS IT!!! EASY as 1-2-3!!

Now time to plate up and enjoy. We put ours in ramekins for more individual servings.

Now we topped ours with some of our raw whip cream from the other day!! This is optional you can just put the crumb topping on.

Ok time to top with crumb topping

Dig In!

YUMMY!!! We ate this in about a whole 2 seconds…

Thanks again Averie for the inspiration and easy recipe to follow. We plan on remaking this for our family during the holidays.

Reasons why we love this recipe:

• easy to make
• few ingredients
• took only 10 minutes to make
• taste great
• who doesn’t love a little pumpkin pie??
• low fat, low in calories

We hope you all enjoyed our raw desserts and how excited for this week’s theme week. We will share with you all tomorrow morning plus along with some very exciting NEWS!

Hope everyone has a great evening.

Till next time,

The Twins

L&M

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We all scream for Ice Cream

Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 09:48 AM

Theme week: Raw Desserts

Hello everyone,

As promised from via Tweeter request and me wanting to re-create my first attempt of making raw ice cream. Michelle and I got together yesterday and studied our recipes and decided to give making a no nut raw ice cream a try.

I have made an raw ice cream before though it had cashews in it. So since it looks like we have been having a theme of no nuts we decided to continue that theme.

And time to reveal the two flavors we created: Pomegranate and Chocolate chip cookie dough!!!   Our friend Heather is having a great giveaway, and the criteria was to create something using pomegranate and one of Katie’s recipes. Well you all saw our creation of us following one of Katie’s fudge balls ideas earlier this week. We had some leftover of our chocolate covered chocolate chip balls so we decided to create two different flavors using these two ingredients!

Are you ready for the recipes……

Pure2Raw Recipe: Raw No Nut Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 2 medium bananas
• 1/3 cup lucuma powder
• 3 tbsp coconut butter
• 3 tbsp coconut oil
• 1/2 cup water
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• 1 packet stevia (add more sweetness to taste)

Directions:

Place bananas, lucuma powder, water, vanilla, and stevia into blender and blend till creamy.

Next add in your coconut butter and coconut oil.

And blend till smooth and well incorporated. It takes a few minutes!

Time to flavor

We first did pomegranates.

Add 4 tbsp of fresh pomegranates to blender (or till your liking of flavor)

Again blend till creamy!

Next up … chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream

Follow the same ice cream recipe above. Though to flavor it you will add in some cookies… we added our leftover chocolate covered chocolate chip cookies to ours! Cut each cookie ball into little pieces. Size doesn’t matter you may cut as small or as large cookie chucks as you would like in your ice cream.

Next stir in the cookie chucks

OMG…. food orgasmic !!!

Now for the hardest part… waiting.

Set your ice cream mixtures into the freezer and WAIT!!! If you can

We let ours set for about 5-6 hours.  Felt like a little kid again waiting for the ice cream truck to come!

TIME TO EAT DEVOUR ICE CREAM!!!

Pomegranate Ice Cream Anyone???

Seconds???

Thirds???? Who wants cookie dough???

More please….

Delicious!! Mouth-watering!!

I never thought I would ever make my own ice cream… yet here I am doing it. And the great thing it was fun and easy.

Reasons why we love this recipe:

• contains no dairy or animal product
• good for me
• easy to do
• low in sugar
• contains the ‘good fat’
• taste great
• no special equipment except a blender
• And best of all NO UPSET TUMMY!!!

Michelle and I hope you enjoyed our raw ice cream lesson. We have seen a ton out there in the blog world, here are just a few… Gena’s soft served, raw food nation’s strawberry ice cream, and Melissa’s almond banana oh the list could go on…. so many great recipes and flavors out there!!!  So exciting to see all the ice cream love!!!

We would love to hear your ideas and/or recipes!  We have already started coming up with some new ideas to create more versions of ice cream… more to come soon we promise Gosh the ideas keep rolling…

Thanks for stopping by…

And we would like to say Happy 25th Birthday to our dear friend Gina! Happy Birthday girl! Eat some cake on us!!!

Till next time,

The Twins

L&M

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Exciting news – themed weeks

Monday, November 9, 2009 at 05:32 PM

Good evening friends,

Well all day Michelle and I got caught up on how our weekends were like and what needed to get done for the busy week ahead. In the midst of our conversations today we came across a new idea that we would like to do on our blog. More on that soon

We did manage to get a little workout in…. since it was sooooo nice outside. We just had to take advantage!

Twins Workout:

4o minutes of walk/run outside

We were supposed to run majority of the time though we got to talking and kinda lost track of time…. well tomorrow is our long run day (so we make-up for it tomorrow)

So what is the exciting news (well we hope it is exciting for you all)

Theme Week with the Twins

What is theme week? Good question!

Theme week is going to be the twins playing in the kitchen with either a new ingredient or kitchen tool. Series ranging from chocolate week or spirializer week, etc you get the idea? Each week we will have a theme or main focus and that is what you will see each day. We hope to show you all new ingredients, tools, techniques or just new ideas to get you inspired to try something new!

First up: dessert week

Not a bad week to start with eh?

This week we plan to show different types of desserts. Now you don’t have to enjoy these great treats just for dessert they are great breakfast lunch snacks too!

Tonight we put together a cranberry chia pudding.

We have done a few varieties of chia puddings before here, here and here. Can you tell we like this stuff?

Recipe coming tomorrow! Plus featuring a new ingredient!!!

Plus our dinner we made cranberry salad dressing (that was not planned we just had a bunch of cranberries leftover and decided to make a simple dressing with them)

Dinner: salad, avocado, leeks, fennel, and our cranberry salad dressing.

Recipe for the dressing will we share tomorrow as well! Hope you all have a wonderful evening!

Twins Question: Do you have an all time go to type of dessert? What is your favorite one to make? If you were a dessert what would you be?

Till next time,

The Twins

L&M

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Vegan Recipes in honor World Vegan Day

Sunday, November 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Happy November 1st everyone,

Lori and I are still trying to figure out where the year went? How about all of you, do you feel your life is just flying by? Although I love fall…colder weather, leaves changing colors…oh and the Holidays are right around the corner : ) One of the markets we sell at already had Christmas lights up!  Are you the type of person who starts early with holiday decoration and shopping, or do you wait till after Thanksgiving?

In our family the day after Thanksgiving is when we go get our Christmas tree and put up the lights on the house. My dad and one of my brother-in-laws loves to go all out with the lights. I mean seriously…it is crazy, but they have fun with it!

Anyways Lori and I enjoyed a lovely dinner last night

The plan was to make our version of mock chicken salad, which we have before and loved it!

Twins Recipe

Twins Mock Chicken Salad:

A New Twist

A simple, refreshing flavor…it is so easy to make:

Twins Twisted Mock Salad

2 cups soaked pumpkin seeds (soak for at least 1 hour)

3 carrots, peeled

1 cucumber

1 black radish, peeled

2 lemons, just the juice

1/2 cup hemp seeds (the originally recipe called for some tahini, but we are out)

1 garlic

Use rough chop the veggies because everything is going to get thrown into the food processor

Two springs of fresh rosemary

Remove from stem

Pulse a little then add pumpkin seeds, 1/2 cup nutritional yeast, juice of the 2 lemons and 1 tsp salt

PulseWhat the texture to be small pieces, not mushy! So pulse slowly.

To assembly:

Place a good handful or two of lettuce on a plate.

Now here is how we topped the salad on top of the lettuce

Using 1/2 cup measuring cup, fill it up……Yep NO fancy equipment needed here : )

Flip onto lettuce

And there you have it

We added some avocado slices….it was a great simple, satisfying meal!  While we were eating it, it reminded both of us of something but just could not put on our finger on it. It somewhat reminded us of chicken pot pie, minus the bread, fat, etc…Still not quite sure if that what it is but we have some leftover that we will try to see if we can pinpoint what the flavor reminds us of.

And recipe #2

Raw Raspberry Cupcake

We have made raw cupcakes before and there are many versions of raw cupcakes out there. We feel one of the best is ShannonMarie from Rawdorable.  We love her, she is so creative and her cupcakes always look amazing! So please check her yummy treats out, you won’t be disappointed

And after some inquires about our cupcake we decided to share with you all our recipe. As I mentioned we have done different versions of cupcakes, more cupcakes, all with different bases and using different techniques. Overall what we have learned is just have fun and play around with different ingredients.

Twins Raw cupcakes

Chocolate Cherry

Coconut Lime

Lemon

Mint Chocolate

Pumpkin Cupcakes

We like to fill our raw cupcakes with some of the frosting or we make a filling, because some times they tend to more dense and rich than regular baked cupcake, so this gives the filling of “lightness” Well at least we think so : ) and we love frosting!

Ingredients:

• 1 cup almond flour (made from almond pulp)
• 1 1/4 cups pumpkin flour (made from pumpkin pulp)
• 2/3 cup coconut flour (made from grinding up coconut flakes)
• 4 dates (we use medjool)
• 1 tbsp vanilla
• pinch salt
• 1 cup fresh raspberries

We blened our ingredients in a food processor, till just combined, do not want a big ball of paste. But you can also do it in a mixer!

Then fill your cupcake liners with your batter, try to lightly pressed them. We dehydrated them for a few hours, although you can just put them in the freezer.

Frosting

• 1/4 cup fresh raspberries
• 1 medium banana
• 5-6 tbsp coconut oil (all depends on size of banana – add more oil if not getting hard)
• 1 tsp vanilla
• you can add a few drops of liquid stevia if you want it sweeter, it is optional

Place all frosting ingredients in blender and blend till smooth. Place in fridge to set.

Then remove cupcakes from liners, and then frost. We put our frosting into a piping bag. We took a little scoop out of the cupcake to fill with some frosting. Then put the little cut out piece back on top and then piped on the frosting.

Enjoy!

These can be stored in the freezer or fridge!

Hope you enjoyed our vegan recipes in honor of Happy World Vegan Day!

“Animals are my friends …
and I don’t eat my friends.” George Bernard Shaw

We love this quote because we totally agree. Animals are our friends, our running pals, they comfort us when we feel alone, they do not judge us, they make us laugh…how could you harm them?

Well off to go for a run…

Till next time

L&M

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Great 6 mile run today

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 at 02:23 PM

Hey everyone,

Well I apologize now but my workout was pretty much the same as the sis. Here is what I did:

About 20 minutes before leaving for the gym with Gina, I had my usual pre-workout bar.

This is a new recipe we created that the sis sent to me to try out. It contains cacao nibs for extra boost. It worked! The bar was so easy to digest and gave me all the fuel I needed to run. I never really got tired today during my run!!!

I did not have a plan today for my run, just started running and ended feeling great (I think due to my awesome yoga practice yesterday) so I ran my best 3 miles, 27 mins 40s, and ran my best 6 miles, 56 min 30 sec!

My workout:

• 6.0 for .25
• 6.1 for .25
• 6.2 for .25
• 6.3 for .25
• 6.4 for .25
• 6.5 for .25
• 6.6 for .25
• 6.7 for .25
• 6.8 for .25
• 6.9 for .25
• 7.0 still I reached 3 miles at 27 mins 40 sec.

Walked till I hit 30 minutes. Then began my 3:1.

• Ran 3 mins at 6.6
• jogged 1 min at 5.5
• ran 3 mins at 6.7
• jogged 1 min at 5.5
• ran 3 mins at 6.7
• walked 1 min at 4.1
• ran 3 mins at 6.8
• jogged 1 min at 5.5
• ran 3 mins at 6.8
• walked 1 min at 4.1
• ran 3 mins at 6.9
• jogged 1 min at 5.5
• ran 3 mins at 6.9 and 6 miles at 56 min 30 sec (woohoo)

then slowly decreased my run till I reached 6.5 miles and finished with walking the rest to get 7 miles and a total time of 70 minutes!

I was very proud of myself because I never run fast like this and for some reason it felt easy. Even though I would love to say I am getting stronger, I still felt like maybe the treadmills were off. So as you can see in my sister’s post she did a similar run and our times were pretty close. I guess the treadmills I run on here in OKC are a little off but overall I am still getting good run times in. I will take it!!!!

I definitely feel I ran so fast today without trouble was due to my yoga. I have read a lot of other runners who feel their runs improve because of yoga. Yoga really is great for everyone even serious runners because it helps stretch and lengthen the body, which our bodies need after being pounded when running. So try incorporating yoga into you routine and see how you body reacts, and remember before starting any new exercise program consult with your doctor.

My post workout shake (sorry for the poor picture)

A hand stirred hemp protein shake (we like Manitoba Harvest) with lots of goodies (maca (a must after a run), chia seeds, carob powder, turmeric, cinnamon, yacon powder, acai powder, dulse (another must)). Maca is good for stress, which we stress our body while working out so eat this to counteract that, and dulse is a natural electrolyte.

Then it was time for class at 105 degrees academy.

We finished the ingredients to make raw sweet corn tamales

First was the raw cacao mole sauce

then salsa and guacamole

made up of jicama, tomato, pasley and lime juice

I double mine so I could have some for leftovers : )

And last was the sour cream which I made mine out of mac nuts instead of pine nuts

Time to make tamales…the stuffing was the filling we made yesterday

Time to plate

And the finish product

Pretty good for my first time making raw tamales

Now I am not a huge fan of tamales and as good as this looked I just took a few nibbles of the guamole and made myself a very large green smoothie. It was full of coconut water, blueberries, apple, spinach, mint, chia seeds, cacao powder, and spirulina

This hit the spot and yes I drank it all!! I am use to normally having 1 or 2 green smoothies a day and the past few days I have not been feeling the best. I think my body was letting me know I need one and take a break from raw food, which I mean dehydrated food and nuts….oh but not dessert. I always have room for dessert.

I was packing up my Cinnamon-spiced Brigadeiro to take home and I had one : )

I luv these!!

We ended class making Papaya Tres Leches with Coconut Cream Frosting. This is a layered cake with a cake layer, vanilla custard layer and vanilla cream frosting…all tasted yummy! Of course I sampled : )

We only started the cake and will finish it tomorrow

I forgot to take a pic of the first cake layer, but check out the pictures tomorrow when we cut it!!!

Have a great evening!

Till next time,

Michelle

Pure2raw twins

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Salad Smoothie

Monday, September 21, 2009 at 02:41 PM

Hey everyone

Gina and I did get up this morning and go to the gym. I did not get the best sleep so no running for me today. I got a good walk uphill workout in though : )

My workout today was kinda of random so I am not going to write exactly what I did because to tell you the truth I do not remember. But I walked uphill for 70 minutes. I walked a bit faster today at higher inclines, although I eased my way up. Overall felt pretty good, legs still a little sore from yoga.

I did have one raw brownie bite before leaving for the gym as a pick me up. My post workout meal was a vega protein shake. I had the berry flavor today and liked it. I did add some chia seeds and maca to my shake to help boost with more nutrients. Again another hand stirred shake, which is not the best way I feel to have Vega. It does better blended up, but I still enjoy it.

Today in class we started our morning tackling these

I feel I am getting better…

Look how pretty they are cut : )

Then was on to play with raw chocolate

Cinnamon-spiced Brigadeiro

Rolled in crushed cacao nibs...oh I just love chocolate

Seriously you could never tell these were raw!!! No animal products here : )

Next it was time to prep for our Blue Corn Tostada’s

Into the dehydrator they go...the color is so pretty

Facts about blue corn

• Peruvian super food
• Packed with phytonutrients and antioxidants
• anti-inflammatory
• promote blood flow and reduce cholesterol
• promote collagen formation
• improve circulation
• lowers blood pressure

A Japanese study at Nagoya University showed that the pigment in purple corn blocks the development cancer in the colon. Also some people claim that purple corn can help us open our third eye chakra, due to the purple. The third eye chakra is responsible for increased intuition, and opening up to spiritual truths. There is an ancient Hopi prophecy that says when purple corn comes to the West it is a sign that great changes are occurring on the planet : ) Lets hope this is true!

Twins Question: Do you eat purple corn? Have you ever had it? Well, I have before when I first got into raw foods. I made a blue corn wrap with it and it actually was pretty good!

To complete the blue corn tostada for tomorrow we dehydrated yellow squash and made the sauces

(They were tossed with olive oil, sea salt, and fresh oregano)

orange pepper cream and queso blanco

Next up was lunch: Salad bar and create your own dressing day

I chose to do one of my favorite dressings Orange Fig Tahini dressing

So light and a little sweet

Now when I make salad dressings I never measure so I am sorry I do not have an exact recipe. But here is what was in it, I will do my best on estimates.  This dressing was a big hit with everyone in the class!

Ingredients:

• 3 green figs (black mission is usually what I use but the green tasted great too)
• 3 oranges (1 zest and all the juice)
• about 1/4 cup olive oil
• about 2 tbsp hemp seeds (you don’t necessarily need these I used them for texture)
• a spoonful of tahini (maybe a 1 tbsp)
• a small drop of honey (could use agave)
• a pinch or two of sea salt

I was not feeling the best so I turned my salad into a green smoothie. I had leftover dressing in my Vitamix so I decided to add my “salad” to it and blend it up. My “salad” smoothie was: some spinach, lots of arugula, avocado, hemp seeds, celery, cucumber, and coconut water.

It tasted alright...not sure if I would do it again. I felt a little weird after drinking it...not sure why??

Kombucha time. Our tea has been fermenting for about 7 days so time to sweeten them up.

But first we had to separate the mommy from the baby : ( haha

I am not sure what to say about this..hum…it really was not as bad as it looks : )

I chose to flavor my Kombucha tea with lemongrass, raspberries, and some goji berries. Everyone in the class did different flavors and they all sound wonderful, I cannot wait to try them all tomorrow.

It smelled so good, I cannot wait to have it tomorrow

And yes raw dessert please…today we made the crust for the chocolate malted tarts we will be enjoying tomorrow

Ingredients: nut flour, coconut oil, almond extract, sea salt, cacao nibs, and agave

Just stir together and mold into tart shells

Into the dehydrator they go...

And before class ended the tostadas were ready to be flipped

Well hope everyone has a great Monday evening…mine will be filled with more leftovers from class : )

Till next time,

Michelle

Pure2raw twin

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Happy tummy

Friday, September 18, 2009 at 05:13 PM

Hey everyone

I hope you are all having a good Friday. Mine was great. After a good workout this morning with Gina, we headed to class at 105 degrees.

Our day started with our raw muffins:

Here are my raw cacao pear muffins we made yesterday

Into the dehydrator they go to warm up

Cookies fresh out of the dehydrator

My raw muffins ready

Next up we made more nut milk and flour, I chose Brazil Nuts.

The fermented nut cheese we made the other day was done. We will play with it on Monday.

My crumbled a little so had to reform it, hey its my first time : )

Candied walnuts anyone??

Time to glaze our Black Mission Walnut Cream Tarts

I was a good girl and took both home to freeze till the sis gets here. I know I am such a good sister : )

Lunch Time, which by the way has been my favorite so far…I ate way to much…full happy tummy

Yes raw sushi!!! my first time : )

I was a bit nervous…but it was a lot of fun.

haha I need practice

Sorry for all the pictures…I was having too much fun

Sesame kelp noodles with red chili cashew sauce and green onions…you all remember my obsession with these from the social event.

So here was my awesome lunch:

Happy Tummy!

Dessert time…chocolate!

I also feel in love with these at the media event….Cinnamon-spiced Brigadeiro

We will roll them into balls on Monday…I cannot wait.

Today was a great day of delicious food.

Have a great Friday evening. My has started off good…just finish off my cheesy kale chips, sorry sis you will have to get them when you come : )

Till next time,

Michelle

Pure2raw twin

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Running on no sleep

Saturday, September 12, 2009 at 11:24 AM

Hello everyone,

It is Lori here… I know many of you have been catching up with my twin sis, Michelle! I just wanted to write you all letting you know that I am surviving somehow and keeping our business afloat. Today I had our farmers market so let’s just say the past two days I haven’t got much sleep due to birthday cake orders and baking for the market (and being one man down – LOL sis… I guess you have a good excuse)

Yesterday, my day started with this yummy raspberry smoothie:

raspberries, cilantro, collard green, lime, lime zest, stevia and hemp oil, cayenne, turmeric

I think I might have put too much cayenne in because it sure did have some heat to it. It was nice though it really got me going for the day!

I did manage to squeeze in some yoga  about 35 minutes (not as long as I would have liked but as least I got to do something right?) and did some leg exercises as a warm up.

Post-workout juice: carrots, celery, kale, lime, ginger

Sorry I thought I took a picture….

Later that afternoon I was getting hungry so I treated myself to a delicious avocado “green” pudding. It was loaded with a few of my essentials to keep me going.

avocado, carob, stevia, coconut oil, mint, little orange zest, spirulina, chia powder, maca

Now I typically like to eat an early dinner due to the fact that I get up at 3:45am to get ready for the market. I made myself a nice lovely kale salad with some leeks, nutritional yeast, and our Pure2raw “cheez” crackers! Dressing was lemon juice, apple cider vinegar, and olive oil.

Simple, yet very satisfying. I still have a problem with inhaling my salads. I try so to hard to eat slow, but sometimes I am just to hungry!

Now you all might be wondering what I do for food while I am at the market for 6 hours…. well I start my very early morning with my typical lemon water and sit on the couch trying to wake up. Than about an hour before I head out the door I eat something. This morning it was raw-granola and hemp milk.

And as I was walking out the door I treated myself to our thin mints. So addicting! And plus I need the bit of caffeine to get me going.

we make them into circles for the business and than we get all the ugly scrapes... poor us!

Upon returning to the house I finally got my green smoothie. I loaded it up with coconut water to help hydrate me.

coconut water, bee pollen (for energy), lemon, collard green, 2 apples, and stevia

Now time to go and relax before cleaning begins….

Twin Question: What do you like to eat as a little pick me up before doing something? Do you like raw cacao? What is your go to snack for energy?

Till next time,

Lori

The Raw Twins

L&M

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Recap of post media cocktail party

Thursday, September 10, 2009 at 02:22 PM

Hey everyone

Sorry about not posting this last night but by the time I got back to my room I was exhausted. Plus I had to get up extra early… for a good reason. I will share more on that later.

Here is a recap of the post media cocktail party last night at 105 degrees.

First greeted by Matthew and Dara

The Bar/Juice bar

The servers carried around these delicious cocktails made with sake

Red and white wine were served as well ( I enjoyed white wine, it was very good and I am not a huge white wine drinker!)

Raw pizza anyone?

Red Pepper Wrappers with sicilian almond puree, avocado, & basil

Notice anyone is the picture…

Yep Barry Switzer...eating raw!

Everyone there seemed to have a good time : )

Everyone loving raw foods : )

Me & Greg

Check out Gina in action

Hey Gina!!

Me & Gina

Gift Shop

Everything you would need is in here

me, Megan, & Bobbi

me & Kelly (the head pastry chef)

You have to come try Kelly’s amazing raw chocolate…I couldn’t resist and had one before dinner

could you blame me??

I love raw desserts!!

Nothing gets better then being able to take raw ice cream home!!

Kitchen hard at work:

Head Chef Geoffrey and Academy Director Ladan

Raw lasagna...yum!

Okay finally Greg and I ate :

Pizza!

And

Red pepper wrap

Now I really like this and thought it was my favorite until Greg showed me these

Sesame noodles, red chili cashews, green onions

So good…I cannot even tell you!!!!!

I had a great fabulous talking with Mitchel

I guess I didn't like it...I managed to only eat 3 : )

Look how pretty the restaurant is at night

And as we all started the day with Matthew and Dara…therefore it seems appropriate to end the night with them.

The two master minds behind 105 degrees!

It was a great night and everyone I talked with really enjoyed the food! They were all very excited to have such an amazing place there in OKC. I even meet, Pepper, the raw meet-up leader here in OKC! She was awesome.

I had an amazing time and a huge thanks to everyone that was apart of putting it on! Everyone did a great job!

Till next time

Michelle

The Raw Twins

L&M

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