Tuesday, February 9, 2010 at 08:47 AM
Good morning friends,
We are loving the favorite romantic movies comments happening on our Valentine’s day giveaway!!! 
Oh all the love is in the air 
Going back to our tasty and easy Superbowl recipes that many of you requested to see I will share some here and the others will be posted under our recipes tab.
First recipe is our Kabocha Lime Guacamole
This recipe is super easy and taste amazing!!! A fan favorite for all And who doesn’t love some guacamole?
© 2010 Pure2Raw Recipe: Kabocha Lime Guacamole
Ingredients:
- 2 avocadoes
- 1/4 cup puree roasted kabocha squash
- 2 garlic’s
- 1/4 tsp salt
- handful of fresh cilantro
- 1 scallion
- 1 lime zest and juice
Directions:
Place all ingredients into a large bowl and mash up using a fork!
We like to have our guacamole a little on the thick and chunky side. Though we can mash it up as pureed or chunky as you like
Leaves such a fun color don’t you think? And taste unbelievable!
That’s it for that recipe, so simple you just need a bowl and a good fork
Next recipe is our Cheezy pepper nacho sauce
Again a very simple recipe with a little twist in it! We added some of our roasted kabocha squash to it as well And let me tell you this brought the sauce to a whole new level, a little bit of sweetness for the squash! YUM!
© 2010 Pure2Raw Recipe: Cheezy pepper nacho sauce
Ingredients:
- 1 red pepper
- 3/4 cup nutritional yeast (we love this stuff)
- pinch sea salt
- handful of fresh parsley
- 2 garlic’s
- 1/2 zucchini
- splash of water
- 1 tbsp tahini
- 1/2 tsp turmeric
- 1 tbsp sunflower lecithin *you may use guar gum or xanthan gum (about 1/4 to 1/2 tsp)
- 2 tbsp kabocha squash puree *if you do not have any veggie puree made you can just add a dash of sweetness from agave nectar
Directions:
Place all ingredients into food processor or blender and blend till creamy and well combined. Ours we a little on the runny side
And enjoy over some crackers or chips (or pictured here our pure2raw rosemary crackers)
I will add our club sandwich later today to our recipes tab!
I hope you get to make some of these easy and delicious snacks They are crowd pleasers!
Check out some great giveaways happening:
Just Audrey – Glass Dharma straws
Voracious Vegan – Sweet Earth Chocolates
And our Valentine Day give basket
Lots of goodies for people to win!!
Till next time,
Lori
The Twins
L&M
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: Giveaway, gluten free vegan nut free recipe, ingredients
Tags: avocado, chocolate, guacamole, nacho sauce, squash, sunflower lecithin, valentine day giveaway
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
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!
It was soooo good!! Creamy, limey, & a little bit of sweetness from the kabocha squash, Heather inspired appetizer!
We 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
Next:
Pure2raw Cheezy Pepper Nachos
We poured the cheezy sauce over our Rosemary Crackers.
We 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
And it featured some eggplant bacon, courtesy of Matthew Kenney and we know Mrs. Fitnessista loves some eggplant bacon!!
Oh 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.
PERFECT!!!
Seriously our best cupcake yet!! Love the blend of sugar and cinnamon ; )
Our friends even enjoyed some of these
Snickerdoodle 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
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: Giveaway, Miscellaneous, dessert, pure2raw products
Tags: appetizer, cheez sauce, guacamole, raw cookies, raw crackers, sandwich, snickerdoodles, squash, valentines day giveaway
Sunday, February 7, 2010 at 09:59 AM
Happy Sunday everyone!!
I have been up for 2 hours and have done nothing besides writing this long and useful post!!! Don’t you just love Sundays!! An official excuse to be lazy, right??
Anyways our friend Averie asked us to share our favorite things. It has been a topic we wanted to do just never got around to it, so when she mentioned it we thought now is a great time to share.
Twin’s Favorite Things – again these are from our own experiences you can make your own call
How we go about getting our ingredients. We do most of our shopping online although if we are low on certain ingredient and we know a local health food store around us sells it we will just by it from them. We try to buy in bulk as well because in the long run it saves you time and money.
1) Coconut Oil - best quality and tasting - Artisana Premier Organics coconut oil and coconut butter
best for your money – one gallon tub from Sun Foods
best convenient – sold in most health food stores Nutiva
Other high quality coconut oil brands we have been enjoying Vivapura and Virgin Coconut oil De Coco Creme
2) Best online stores to shop: how we shop the most are Natural Zing, Amazon, Navitas Naturals, and Mountain Rose Herbs. For specialty items Raw Food World and Sun Food.
What we have been know to buy at Natural Zing: MSM powder, kelp noodles, coconut oil, tahini, maca, lucuma, yacon syrup, chia seeds, spirulina, raw cacao powder, raw cacao nibs, camu camu, and nuts and seeds, hemp seeds
Amazon: coconut water, Artisana and Navitas Natural brand products, dehydrator, vitamix, spiralizer, mandoline, nutritional yeast
Navitas Naturals: chia seeds, raw cacao, sprouted flax meal, yacon syrup, mesquite, maca, hemp seeds, lucuma and stevia
Mountain Rose Herbs: cinnamon, turmeric, sea salt, maca, chia seeds, chorella, spirulina, dulse flakes, any spice really, green tea (for making our kombucha tea)
3) Hemp products: Best overall Manitoba Harvest (can be pricey)
Best second choice Nutiva
Other overall decent hemp protein Ruth’s Hemp (we get from Natural Zing) or buying in bulk from Whole foods or Mountain Rose Herbs
4) Stevia – powder we like the best is Sweet Leaf the packets (which you can find in most heath food stores)
Second best is – KAL Pure Stevia Extract liquid (we get from health food stores)
Third best is – Stevia powder from Navitas Naturals (this is an acquired taste)
We find to like most Stevia products but we prefer liquid forms of it the best. We know for some Stevia is hard to get used to though we have been using if for over 3 years and we hardly notice it anymore. To us it is worth the after taste or getting used to factor from it having no calories and for us it is truly the best sugar substitute. We use it a lot in our bakery and personally!
5) Other random ingredients we use and where to find them
Nutritional yeast – most health food stores sell it (RedStar is our favorite)and Amazon
Irish Moss and Sunflower lecithin – I mentioned this yesterday
Florida Crystals Organic Sugar – we use for making kombucha and water kefirs (most health food stores sell this brand)
Native Forest Unsweetened Classic coconut milk – again most health food stores should sell this
Living Harvest – hemp milk (unsweetened)
Pacific Foods – Almond milk (unsweetened) and Hazelnut milk, and Rice milk
Again how we go about purchasing these items varies every time we need something. Some times it comes down to money, convenience or brand loyalty. It really all depends what we are shopping for and what we are low on. It also comes down to personal preference and money.
This great lady also has great tips on buying in bulk. Also we know because we have done it that most health food stores allow you to buy in bulk (cases) like Whole Foods, Earth Fare, and any local health food store in your area. Just go and ask the customer service area and they should be able to help you out. Buying in bulk is great especially for a family with lots of mouths to feed! Mountain Rose Herbs again is a great place to do this as well because they offer bulk discounts to everyone and their products are organic
We hope this list of our favorites helps you along your journey of finding great healthy additions to your lifestyle like is has ours! Please let us know if you have any specific questions.
And Lori was correct in her guess with what our dinner was from last night! Kelp noodles though we a great twist And speaking of this lovely lady she is hosting a great giveaway – an ice cream maker If you get an ice cream maker you can start making delicious ice cream like this
Cookie dough Ice Cream
Back to our dinner:
Kabocha Kelp Noodles
We blended in our roasted Kabocha from earlier this week add in some salt, leftover sage that we roasted with the squash and some water. Threw it all into the blender and blended till creamy though ours we kept on the thick side
Than created a ‘green’ sauce to over the top, you know us with our greens! Green sauce was a blend of tahini, yacon syrup, apple cider vinegar, parsley, shallot, sunflower lecithin and water! Blend till creamy. And pour on top of kelp noodles and kabocha squash mixture.
We just mixed it all together and topped with more fresh parsley
Amazing! We think all squash lovers would approve of this sauce A great way to end a Saturday night. One reason why we created this dish was to show a customer at the farmers market yesterday morning what else to do with squash. She mentioned she does not know what else to do with winter squashes and that’s when we thought of using it as pasta ‘tomato’ sauce! Although we feel this would work with any veggie dish!
We got lots of goodies lined up today for the big game! Super bowl day! We can’t wait to show you all what we come up with tomorrow
Cheers from the Twins. We have no favorite for which team to win we just want a good game to watch and the commercials!
Till next time,
The Twins
L&M
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: Hot Topics, Miscellaneous, ingredients, product review
Tags: coconut oi, favorite things, hemp, kelp noodles, raw ice cream, shopping online, squash, stevia, sunflower lecithin
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 08:25 AM
Good morning luvs,
Happy Friday to you all!
Lori and I are so happy to see that everyone is loving our chocolate gluten free vegan layered cake!!!! The cake was rich and delicious We found out that if you put it into the dehydrator for a little bit it warms it up!!! Heavenly!!!
We will do a post soon about all the ‘special’ ingredients that we used in the layered cake! We are still learning how to use some of them to get the best results! We plan to recreate this cake without using any nuts!!!
Hard to believe another week went by. Though Lori and I have been managing to eat some really great food
Lots of our favorite breakfast : green smoothies
Some coconut kefir shakes
Creamy and thick carob mint avocado pudding
Sauerkraut and fermented veggies mix with grinded up hemp seeds (helps make it look like crumbled cheese ok well at least to me it does
Made some chia puddings
This was mixed with some mesquite (which we used to use all the time and forgot how much we love the flavor it provides), and yacon powder We love Navitas Naturals!
and than drizzled coconut butter on top
Seriously coconut butter is such a little treat for us Best thing ever!!! I think Katie and Krissy would agree! Lori and I can’t get enough of this stuff! It is like having icing on a cake
Also enjoyed some of Lori’s favorite raw sauerkraut – red cabbage base with a little bit of kale in there.
Also created a veggie sandwich
I took our Pure2Raw collard green flatbread, some romaine leaves, and tahini!
Easy, full of flavor and texture, few ingredients, and quick dinner Love it!!!!
How I made it:
Grab ingredients
Layered onion flatbread with loads of tahini love this stuff too!
Anything with tahini on it creates a perfect marriage in our opinion!!
Than time to build sandwich, you just take your romaine and layer the leaves between your tahini covered bread!
And you have yourself a veggie sandwich that is gluten free YAY! 
Than time to devour the sandwich
Fantastic!
And than if you did not have enough tahini you can dip in a pure2raw pumpkin kale cracker into it
But last nights dinner was a treat and made us think of Heather
We roasted some Kabocha squash with some sautéed asparagus.
And we drizzled our quick easy 2 ingredient sauce:
Nutritional yeast and coconut oil
And sprinkled cinnamon and coriander seeds to finish the dish
We have forgotten how much we love roasted squash. It has been too long and we are sad that the winter squash season is coming to an end ; (
The flavors blended so well and literally just melted in our mouths. We love coriander!! We can see how this is Heather’s favorite squash.
Our friend Lori had a fun way to enjoy sea vegetables with squash, we will have to try that next time ; )
We are preparing ourselves for another cold, wet, snowy weekend!! But we are excited for the big game, have some fun food we are making ; ) and will share our Superbowl eats!!
Till next time,
Michelle
The Twins
L&M
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: Miscellaneous, ingredients, product review, pure2raw products
Tags: coconut butter, coconut oil, fermented veggies, mesquite, nutritoinal yeast, raw onion flatbread, raw sauerkraut, squash, yacon
Thursday, January 28, 2010 at 08:15 PM
Hello luvs,
MASH – no, not the the show. The food!
Happy Friday to you all Another week has come and gone.
And today they are predicting snow and ice here! Oh boy. Pull out the wine blankets!
Stephanie and Brittany watch out girls and please be safe (and to anyone else who is going to be hit with snow this weekend)
Today I wanted to share with you all the every so lovely veggie mash that I enjoyed the other day
Celery Root Squash Mash
Yep you heard me right! Not your average mash is it? We have done this one before lots of times but different versions of it. This one has a few little twist in it I know mash potatoes are a classic for many people but promise this one is a good replacement! And the best part not many ingredients and very easy to make!
Pure2Raw Recipe: Celery Root Squash Mash
Ingredients:
- 1 small celery root, chopped (about 1 cup)
- 1 small butternut squash, chopped (about 2 cups)
- few fresh sage leaves
- 2-3 tbsp coconut oil, liquid
- about 1 inch lemongrass
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 cup water
Directions:
Pre-heat oven to 350 degrees.
Peel and chop both celery root and butternut squash. Place on aluminum foil on baking sheet.
Pour your coconut oil over your veggies and place sage leaves on top.
Place veggies into oven and let roast for about 40-45 minutes or till just tender. (you want to be able to put a fork through them with ease)
Once done, let veggies cool and transfer to blender or use a hand held blender and puree till smooth.
Add in the special ingredient: lemongrass
I cut it up with scissors before pureeing it up, it helps make sure it gets well blended!
Add in 1/2 cup water, 2 garlics to blender along with roasted vegetables.
It is that easy!
Time in devour! Creamy and full of flavor. A little sweet too
This veggie mash goes great with sauerkraut and hemp seeds
Well in my opinion! It would go great with just about any companion! It is looks cheezy too from the squash, double bonus because much healthier! Because there is not cheese in there! YAY! Also great for people watching their nightshade vegetables -there is no potatoes!
9 Reason why I love this recipe:
- easy
- few ingredients
- vegan
- gluten free
- taste amazing
- even non-vegans will love it
- great way to get different vegetables in your diet
- you can mix and match flavors and vegetables
- because I say so!!!
Happy Friday to you all! Whip this healthy vegetable mash this weekend to help keep you warm
The Twins got some very exciting news later today and you do not want to miss it *hit you might have started to see some new tabs on our blog!!!
Till next time, got lots to do!
Lori
The Twins
L&M
Posted by: Pure2
Posted in: gluten free vegan nut free recipe, ingredients
Tags: celery root, coconut oil, gluten free, hemp seeds, lemongrass, sage, squash, vegan foods, vegetable mash
That’s it for that recipe, so simple you just need a bowl and a good fork 
