Agave Pecan Butter Surprise

Sometimes while making a recipe in your head it doesn’t always come out as planned. But sometimes you are left with a welcome surprise. That is how I came up with the Agave Pecan Butter. It is a great, super smooth spread and still raw! You don’t often see super smooth raw spreads and this one is a good one. I wish all mistakes were this successful haha! Of course if you want less butter half or quarter the ingredients. This is a great dip for apples or substiute for any nut butter.

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Agave Pecan Butter Surprise

3 cups Pecans
1/4 cups Agave
1/2 cups Water
dash of celtic sea salt

Blend the pecans till a fine flour and then until it forms a butter. Add the agave, water and salt and continue processing until smooth and deeelish!

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Quinoa Apple Oatmeal

Another great breakfast recipe! I love this one. The combo of oatmeal, my favorite quinoa, apples and raisins make this a real winner!! The apples are cooked and so soft and good! The raisins become plump and juicy when cooked. So good!! I put all the servings into 1/4 pound containers to have meals for the whole week!

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Quinoa Apple Oatmeal
5 servings

1 cup oatmeal
1 cup quinoa
1/2 raisins
3 1/2 cup water
1/2 cup almond milk (You can just use all water and skip this if you want)
1 apple diced
cinnamon to taste
2 tablespoons agave
4 tablespoons maple syrup, or to taste
1 teaspoon salt, or to taste

Combine all the ingredients, except the sweetener in a large pot and bring to a boil. Turn down the heat and simmer until your breakfast is ready. Add the sweetners of your choice and Enjoy 🙂

Per Serving: 352 calories, 5g Fat, 0 Sat. Fat, 0 Chol, 46mg Sodium, 71g Carbs, 7g Fiber, 30g Sugars, 8g Protein

look at all that fiber and protein!!!

Quick Fig & Fontina Flatbread

Looking for a fast and deeelish snack or lunch? Here is a great option that I just put together. I think I have mentioned before how much I love figs! I am really taking advantage of them while they are still in season. This is such a simple and easy way to enjoy them.

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Quick Fig & Fontina Flatbread
2 servings

6 fresh figs, sliced thin
1/2 tbsp Honey or agave
1 whole wheat or multi grain pita bread
1 1/4 ounce fontina cheese, sliced thinly (I use mozzarella daiya)
dash of celtic sea salt

Pre-heat a toaster or regular oven to 350 degrees. Split the pita bread into two halves. Spread the cheese out evenly on both halves. Place in the oven for 2-4 minutes till the cheese is melted and the bread is nicely toasted. Remove from the oven and place the sliced figs evenly onto the both halves. Sprinkle some salt and drizzle the honey on top. Enjoy!!

I have been looking up what I am eating to see the nutrition stats, so I will post them when I can 🙂

Here you go! Per serving: 244 Calories, 7g Fat, 4g Sat fat, 21mg Cholesterol, 303mg Sodium, 40g Carbs, 6 g Fiber, 24g Sugar, 9g Protein

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Chocolate Coconut Munchy Cereal

Another breakfast treat 🙂 I had to call this munchy cereal because if you are like me you will have a hard time leaving this one just for breakfast. It is so good!!! It is also deelish without the dehydrator as well. I am sure you good sprinkle this on top of yogurt for a great treat or eat it plain with almond milk or just munch on it on its own. This is such a great combo of sweet, salty, crunchy and chewy! mmmmm

Pre-Dehydrator Munchies

Pre-Dehydrator Munchies

After the dehyrator and ready to munch :)

After the dehyrator and ready to munch 🙂

Chocolate Coconut Munchy Cereal
4 cups of dried coconut
1/3 cup of cocao nibs
1 teaspoon of celtic sea salt
1/2 cup of honey or agave
1/4 cup of pitted dates

In a food processor combine the dried coconut, cocao nibs and sea salt. Process until fine. Add the honey and dates and process until well combined. Empty the processor onto a teflex dehydrator sheet and dry at 115 degrees for 12-15 hours.

Raw Just Corn Chips

When I make corn chips I normally do not make them so smoothly pureed but I thought this would be fun. These are so good and they are essentially just corn and jalapeno! How awesome is that! I started out with 2 sheets but we ate the first one as soon as they were done 🙂 I also normally score my chips but these we just broke into pieces. So simple and so good. This is such a great snack.

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After you take it out, just break into pieces and ENJOY 🙂

Raw Just Corn Chips

4 cups frozen and thawed corn
2 jalapeno pepper, deseeded
2 tsp salt

1/2-1 cup water

In a Vita-mix or blender puree corn, pepper and salt adding water as needed.
Spread onto teflex dehydrator sheets and dehydrate for 8-12 hours. Once it is no longer sticking to the sheets flip over and dry the other side for 4 hours more. Break into pieces and enjoy!

Banana Date Chia Pudding

I had read Sarma’s post on banana milk and thought it was pure genius!! I figured I could sweeten my almond milk the same way. I normally use sweeteners like agave and honey, but I loved how simple it was to sweeten this pudding with just dates and bananas. So fabulous! I have to tell you this was one of my Favorite Chia Puddings ever! SOOO GOOD! Breakfast is such a good meal!! Now that I am fully hooked I wonder how I ever lived without it 🙂

Love this Breakfast!!

Love this Breakfast!!

Banana Date Chia Pudding
serves 3-4

1/2 cup chia seeds
2 cups almond milk
2 bananas
5 dates, pitted
a few dashes cinnamon
a pinch of salt

Place the chia seeds in a bowl.  In a Vita-mix blend together the almond milk, bananas, dates, cinnamon, and salt.  Pour this mixture over the chia seeds and whisk together with a fork.  Let it sit for 10 minutes in the fridge and then whisk again to get rid of any clumps. Cover and set in the fridge overnight. In the morning whisk one more time and then enjoy!! Yum Breakfast!!!!

I looked up the nutrition stats again 🙂 I hope this helps out!

279 Calories, 7g fat, No Saturated fat or Cholesterol, 122mg Sodium, 52g Carbs, 13g Fiber, 32g Sugar and 7g Protein

Quinoa “Oatmeal”

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As I told you last week my new addition to my diet is Breakfast and I am LOVING it!!! I plan to switch it up every week and try something new. This is a cooked breakfast and it was so good! I love quinoa but I don’t think it is ever thought about as a breakfast food. I thought that this super-grain would be great sweet and hot in the morning and I was right 🙂 So good and super nutritious. Love it!

Quinoa “Oatmeal”
serves 3

1 cup quinoa
1 cup almond milk
1 cup water
1/3 cup dried cranberries
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
3 tablespoons agave

Rinse the quinoa and add to saucepan with water and almond milk. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for 5 minutes. Add the dried cranberries and cinnamon and simmer for 10 minutes. Stir in the agave. Cover and let sit for 5 minutes until all liquid is absorbed.

I can’t promise to do this for ever recipe but I looked up the nutrition stats for this breakfast. 🙂

Per Serving: Calories 324, Fat 4g, No Saturated Fat or Cholesterol, 71mg sodium, 67g carbs, 4g Fiber, 25g sugar, 7g protein

Raw & Vegan Double Cacao Pudding

I doubled this recipe and I am so glad I did 🙂 It was deeelish! Super chocolatey and smooth pudding. MMMM! 2 young thai coconuts gave me about 2 cups of coconut meat. This is one of those raw dishes that anyone would love (except if they did not like chocolate!). This also left me with delicious coconut water leftovers that we happily used in our smoothies. So refreshing and good!

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Raw & Vegan Double Cacao Pudding
Recipe by Matthew Kenny

  • 3/4 cup coconut meat
  • 4 tbsp raw cacao powder
  • 5 tbsp agave syrup
  • 1/3 to 1/2 cup coconut water
  • seeds scraped from 1/2 vanilla pod
  • 1/4 cup cacao nibs

Blend Coconut Meat, Cacao Powder, Agave, Coconut Water and Vanilla –
stir in half of the nibs and use the rest on top as a garnish

Young Thai Coconuts

Young Thai Coconuts

RAW Orange Goji Berry White Chocolate

I have been waiting to make this dessert for such a long time and I am soooo happy I finally did! This is going to be repeated (which I almost never do because there are so many other dishes I want to try!) It was super simple to make, froze quickly and eaten very happily afterwards 🙂 If you want this for dessert I would suggest setting it in the freezer just before preparing dinner and then dessert will be ready to serve immediately after. The chocolate becomes this gorgeous bright red-orange color that is sweet but chewy with crunchy bites. It is amazing!

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before freezing

frozen and ready to enjoy

frozen and ready to enjoy

RAW Orange Goji Berry White Chocolate
Posted by Sheryl Duruz on RFT

Grind up:
1/2 cup goji berries (usually sticky, not really a powder)

Blend until smooth:
1/2 cup melted cacao butter
1/2 cup raw cashews (grind these first, it will be easier that way)
1/2 cup agave nectar

Blend in Goji powder

Then by hand mix in whole:
1/2 cup cacao nibs (optional)
1/2 cup whole goji berries
The zest from 1 orange finely zested

Spread in a glass pie plate (think chocolate almond bark).

Chill in the freezer until firm.

Fontina, Asparagus and Zucchini Frittata

We have been loving the fritattas lately if you haven’t noticed 🙂 They are quick, one skillet and really nutritious and of course super yummy! They can easily work with almost all the left over vegetables you have in your fridge. So feel free to change up my recipe. Of course you do not need cheese either I just think it enhances the frittata so much.  I love zucchini in them and I think next time I am going to coarsely grate them for a different taste.

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Fontina, Asparagus and Zucchini Frittata

1 tablespoon of olive oil
1 large onion
1 tablespoon of minced garlic
1/2 bunch of asparagus
1 zucchini chopped, sliced thin or grated
12 eggs, whisked
1/2 cup of fontina cheese chopped or coarsely grated
3 tablespoons of grated parmesan cheese
1/4 cup chopped fresh basil
salt and pepper to taste

Preheat over to 375 degrees. Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Sautée onions and garlic for 5 minutes. Add asparagus and zucchini and cook for another 2-3 minutes. Turn heat down to medium and pour eggs on top of vegetable mixture and let settle. Add fontina cheese by sprinkling around the settling eggs. Top parmesan, basil and salt and pepper. After 5-7 minutes on the stove top put the skillet into the oven for another 10-15 minutes to set. Once it is golden on top you can take out and Enjoy 🙂

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