Thursday, August 9, 2012

flaxseed meal pancakes (with coconut oil) (from "Ani's raw food kitchen")


I just had my Dad over for breakfast, and he tries to follow the fit for life way of eating (eating fruit without any other foods) but I thought that this meal would digest properly as well seeing that it is just fruit, nuts and seeds! This recipe came from Ani's Raw Food Kitchen, an amazing raw food cookbook that I've been playing around with. These pancakes were really sweet, and filling, especially since we had a green smoothie on the side. My dad said he could have eaten 4 by himself! I was full after one.

Ingredients: To yield 4 pancakes
2 cups flax meal (we used golden flax)
2 tbsp liquid coconut oil
1/2 cup agave or maple syrup (we did a combo)
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/4 cup filtered water



Mix the flax meal, water, coconut oil and salt in a bowl with your hands. Form 4 balls, then flatten into the pancake shape.
We served them with sliced bananas, blueberries, grapes, mango, walnuts chopped almonds and minimal syrup.
The batter will keep for 3 days in the fridge.

Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Lentil cashew sweet potato (high in protein)

So I've been doing a lot of exercising the past couple of days... summited my first alpine climb, two 45 minute runs followed by 90 minutes of yoga, bike commuting to work 8 miles each way... etc. I think today it caught up on me. I had my normal green smoothie, but with two bananas instead of just one. But I still feel hungry. I've been sipping on that all morning while studying, and so it's time to make something filling for lunch.
I've been trying to eat about 90% raw, but I don't have any grains sprouted, so I am going to cook lentils, sweet potatoes, and cashew sauce for a protein rich, filling meal. If I don't feel that this is enough, I have an avocado to add.
Broth 

The lentils are cooked in my own vegetable broth.... I just took celery, carrot, chard leaf stem, onion, garlic and spices (oregano, bay leaf, rosemary, pepper) and cooked that for about 15 min in simmering water.
Then I cooked the lentils in this water. The vegetables can be used for future broths, or put right on the meal.
The sweet potatoes are cut up really thin, and put in boiling water.
The cashews are soaking.... I'm going to put them in the food processor to make "sour cream." Add lemon juice, nutritional yeast, olive oil and water.
Here is the cashew sauce:

And then I put it all on a collard leaf... but get creative... have it plain, put it in a whole wheat tortilla, cook some brown rice with it....