Living Foods - Banana Nut Muffins (dehydrated and live with enzymes)

Living foods are raw foods (vegan) that contains enzymes, vitamins, and minerals that the body needs to heal and maintain optimal health. The 2 types of enzymes in our bodies are digestive and metabolic enzymes. Digestive enzymes digest food and metabolic enzymes carry out our body's functions. The digestive and metabolic enzymes in our bodies are in competition with each other. When we eat more raw food (live with enzymes), the digestive enzyme potential in our bodies does not have to be used for digesting, and so allows the metabolic enzymes, that run our body and keeps all organs and tissues working properly, to rebuild new and healthy cells. On the other hand, when we eat cooked foods, digestive enzymes are needed to digest these dead foods, which also accumulate in the body for years and become acidic causing disease. The constant use of digestive enzymes slows down the use of metabolic enzymes which in turn, slow down our healing/regenerating process that prevents us from maintaining optimal health.
We love our dehydrator and have recently come up with a recipe for 'Living Banana Nut Muffins'. All the ingredients used contain enzymes and have not been cooked. Our nuts were sprouted and we used fresh shredded coconut along with dried dates for added sweetness. We also topped them off with some raw cacao nibs. We absolutely loved the results and felt they tasted just like baked banana nut muffins! See recipe below.

Below: Before and after photos of our living muffins made in our dehydrator.

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A Citrus Passion

Citrus fruits contain citric acid which has an alkalizing effect when consumed and aids in both the production of digestive juices and the process of digestion. They have additional antioxidant constituents - including Vitamin C. For the past couple of weeks, we've prepared a citrus fruit juice made with freshly squeezed grapefruit, oranges, lemon and lime. It's a healthy and energetic way to start the day!  Chemistry has two sides - acidic/corrosive and alkaline/base. It's important to maintain a blood PH level between 7.35 and 7.45 in order to have a healthy body. Alkalizing our bodies will heal us and balance our PH levels. Enjoy our recipe below!

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Scrambled Eggs With Veggies

We purchase our eggs from local organic farms in Ontario. Organic free range chicken eggs come from happy chickens that are raised outdoors in healthy environments and are drug-free. Eggs contain protein, vitamin D and all 9 essential amino acids. For those few moments that we don't eat raw foods, we make sure to get enough enzymes to predigest our cooked foods. We used healthy organic coconut oil for frying our eggs and topped them off with plenty of veggies. Try out our simple breakfast recipe for 'Scrambled Eggs with Veggies'! This recipe is very tasty and energizing. Enjoy!

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Watermelon Rind Juice

Watermelons are very nutritious and helpful for cleansing our bodies. For years, we only ate the red part of the watermelon but we recently discovered that this important fruit is completely edible! The rind holds the most nutrients and contains chlorophyll. Chlorophyll has the power to regenerate our bodies, fight infection and promote the health of the circulatory and digestive system. It also reduces the binding of carcinogens to DNA in the liver and other organs. Try out this simple juice recipe below!

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Homemade Honey Nut Muesli

We are incorporating raw foods daily, to take in digestive food enzymes that aid in digestion and overall health. Enzymes are necessary in our diet! Homemade Muesli is an excellent raw food breakfast idea, as long as you are not on a grain free diet. A couple days ago, we prepared Apple Cinnamon Muesli by oven dehydrating our ingredients for 2-3 hours (you can use a regular dehydrator). Our oats and nuts were pre-soaked for 24 hours prior to dehydrating. Today, we had some homemade Honey Nut Muesli- very tasty and healthy! Check out our simple recipe below.

Honey contains a variety of vitamins and minerals including Vitamin C, calcium and iron. Enjoy!

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Homemade Apple Cinnamon Muesli

Cinnamon has anti-fungal, antibacterial and anti-parasitic properties! For breakfast, we decided to make homemade Apple Cinnamon Muesli with hemp seeds. There is something pleasant about the smell of warm cinnamon and apple. We dehydrated all our ingredients in our conventional oven, after 24 hours of pre-soaking them in water. Try our recipe below over the weekend (or prepare muesli the evening before) and enjoy the aroma of apple and cinnamon while they dehydrate. All enzymes remain active once ready, so it is a healthy treat! 

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Happy Egg Pancakes

We love eggs! Our eggs come from happy free range, drug free chickens, at a local Ontario farm. We cook our eggs in different ways, but we recently learned that there are benefits to eating raw eggs, specially the yolk. According to the Food Chemistry journal, the yolk has twice as many antioxidant properties as an apple! They are rich in carotenoid antioxidant compounds, which is why their color is yellow. We created an egg pancake recipe that we topped off with a raw egg yolk (see recipe below). If you buy your eggs from local organic farms, you should give it a try!

Below: Egg pancake topped with a raw yolk for antioxidants and a refreshing bowl of watermelon (drizzled with a little honey) for additional antioxidants and nutrients! Eat watermelon 20 minutes prior to eating egg pancakes.

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Poached Eggs In Avocado Bowls

The Food Chemistry journal publicized that one raw egg, its yolk in particular, contains at least twice as many antioxidant properties as an apple! Previous research has been conducted to reveal that stomach enzymes actually break down egg proteins and produce peptides - which lower high blood pressure. However, eating too many egg whites can cause a biotin deficiency. Eating the yolks only, or the biotin rich yolks with the whites will prevent this problem.

Avocados are good for your heart and blood vessels. The vitamin B6 and folic acid in avocados provide healthy regulation of homocysteine levels. The higher the homocysteine levels, the greater the risk of a fatal heart attack. We came across a couple of posts for 'Egg and Avocados' and were inspired to do a raw version. We want to incorporate more raw foods in our diet and we'll be writing about this in an upcoming post.
Below: Organic raw avocado with poached yolks (at 108 degrees). See recipe for details- enjoy!

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Crêpes Two Ways

Pre-soaking flour overnight is important in order to break down enzyme inhibitors so nutrients can become available for us to have, making it easier to digest. This applies to gluten free flour as well. We decided to put this into practice and pre-soaked some flour for 24 hours. We chose to make two types of crêpes - fruit and vegetable. For the fruit crêpes, we added strawberries, honey and pre-soaked nuts after baking the crêpes. For the vegetable recipe, we decided to make red onion, garlic and zucchini crêpes that we baked in the oven with the ingredients. Two different flavors and both very tasty! (see recipe for plain crêpes below)

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A Happy Quiche

Ever since we tried out the green pea flour, we have been incorporating it in almost all our recipes! Green pea flour is a gluten free flour that is high in protein. Whether we use 1tbsp or 1/2 cup of green pea flour, we have not been disappointed with the outcome of flavor. Today we decided to make a green pea crust for our mini quiches. The results were yummy as usual! (see recipe below)

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A Classy Smoothie

We love creating smoothies because of the choices of health benefits they provide us with. There's an art to cooking and prepping drinks! Prunes and blueberries are high in antioxidants. Apricots provide us with vitamin A. And bananas supply us with potassium, vitamins B6 and C. Whatever mix of fruits we decide on in the morning, smoothies give us the energy boost we need and are very tasty!

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Grilled Green Pea Egg Sandwich

Green pea flour is a high protein flour that is gluten free. We recently purchased this flour and tried it out for the first time to make bread. There were many ingredients added to our recipe because we were unsure of how it would taste. Our organic green pea bread recipe included organic rice flour, organic walnuts (pre-soaked), organic shredded coconut, organic coconut flour, organic black chia seed powder, organic hemp seeds, organic quick oats, water and happy chicken eggs. The results were tasty! Next time we will try a dessert recipe with the flour. (see bread recipe below)

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A Perfect Poach

Free range chicken eggs come from happy chickens that are not raised in unhealthy environments and are drug-free. Eggs contain protein, vitamin D and all 9 essential amino acids.

Below: A pair of perfectly poached eggs with homemade tomato sauce, topped with shredded spinach and sprinkled with hemp seeds! Mmmmmm... very tasty!

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Creating A Smoothie

There is a variety of fruits and flavors for creating smoothies. We enjoy experimenting with flavors and adding health benefits to our food and drinks.

Below: Organic strawberry, blueberry, orange, pear and almond smoothie. Pre-soaking almonds overnight will activate the enzymes, releasing it's shell. Add them to a smoothie for extra flavor and health benefits!

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Healthy Buns

We make our own coconut milk, here at home, by juicing the coconut meat in a juicer. When we make it ourselves, we save the shredded coconut left from the juicer because it still holds about 20% of the milk/liquid. We store the shredded coconut in the freezer and use it for baking. Gluten free buns with hemp seeds, shredded coconut and pumpkin seeds are easy to make! (See recipe below)

Recipe

Makes 4 large buns 

Ingredients:  

1 cup of organic gluten free white rice flour 

2 tbsp of organic almond flour

2 tbsp of organic white chia seed powder 

3 tbsp of organic hemp seeds

3 tbsp of organic shredded coconut 

3 tbsp of organic pumpkin seeds (pre-soaked overnight)

1/4 tsp baking powder 

sea salt 

1/4 cup of fluoride free water

1 large happy free range chicken egg

2 tbsp of organic coconut oil (melted)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven at 325 degrees F. 

2. In a large bowl, mix white rice flour, almond flour, white chia seed powder, hemp seeds, pumpkin seeds, shredded coconut, baking powder and sea salt. Mix really well. Set aside.

3. In a small bowl, beat the egg and then add the water and coconut oil and continue beating. 

4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix them together. The texture will be like dough but will appear crumbly. You may need to add a little water.

5. Using your hands, knead the dough and break into four separate (even) pieces.

6. Make pieces into 4 balls.

7. Hold dough in hand and press down slightly, moving around the dough. 

8. Place on a baking tray and repeat process. (You can choose to sprinkle shredded coconut on top of the buns)

9. Bake for 20-25 minutes! 

10. Let cool and enjoy! 

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Rice Flour Buns With Hemp Seeds

Rice flour is gluten free and contains insoluble fiber which aids in digestion. It contains a good source of protein, however brown rice contains a higher level of B vitamins than white rice. Hemp seeds contain many nutrients such as iron, calcium and vitamin D and can also be incorporated into baking. They are a complete source of protein and are more balanced and digestible than soy. We baked some white rice flour buns with shredded coconut and healthy hemp seeds. Very rich in flavor! You can eat them with some tasty organic peanut butter or use them for sandwiches. To learn more about hemp seeds click here. 

Rice Flour Buns With Hemp Seeds Recipe

Makes 4 large buns 

Ingredients:  

1 cup of organic gluten free white rice flour 

2 tbsp of organic white chia seed powder 

4 tbsp of organic hemp seeds

4 tbsp of organic shredded coconut 

1/4 tsp of organic baking powder 

pinch of sea salt 

1 large happy free range chicken egg

1/4 cup of fluoride free water 

2 tbsp of organic virgin coconut oil (at room temperature)

Directions:

1. Preheat oven at 325 degrees F. 

2. In a large bowl, mix white rice flour, white chia seed powder, hemp seeds, shredded coconut, baking powder and sea salt. Mix really well. Set aside.

3. In a small bowl, beat the egg and then add the water and coconut oil and continue beating. 

4. Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and mix them together. The texture will be like dough but will appear crumbly. You may need to add a little water.

5. Using your hands, knead the dough and break into four separate (even) pieces.

6. Make pieces into 4 balls.

7. Hold dough in hand and press down slightly, moving around the dough. (see image)

8. Place on a baking tray and repeat process.

9. Bake for 20-25 minutes! 

10. Let cool and enjoy! 

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Breakfast For Two

Organic quick oat flakes from Milanaise can also be incorporated in multiple recipes such as bars, muffins, cookies, pancakes, and breads. For a quick breakfast, just heat water and add the oats, stirring occasionally for 3-5 minutes! Serve and Enjoy!

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