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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!
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.
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!
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!!!
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,
