Here Are Some Raw Food and Vitamix Recipes

Tom & I are big into the Vitamix & raw food recipes. Here are some of the most recent things we've been creating.

Pecan Milk (tastes a bit like eggnog)

• 5 cups pure water
• 1 cup raw pecans (soaked in water overnight is best if you have time)
• 3 tbs agave nectar
• 2 tbs vanilla
• 1 tsp nutmeg

Blend until smooth. Strain it if you want to. (The pulp can be used later to make cookies). If you want the fiber, then go ahead--drink up! I've been adding a peach to this & heating it up just a bit, & really like it that way.

Raw Chocolate Pudding-ish Dessert

• 1 ripe avocado
• 3 tbs raw cacao
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 3 pitted dates
• 1 cup of pure water

Add all the ingredients to the vitamix, blend with water to your desired consistency. *note--using the water you soaked the dates in will add flavor. I call it pudding-ish because it doesn't taste like Jello pudding--which is what you might expect. It tastes far better!

Here's my favorite for tonight:

Sprouted Pancakes & Banana Syrup

• 1 cup of whatever you've sprouted lately
• 1 cup raw pecan milk or almond milk or cashew milk
• 1 cup flax seeds
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 tsp vanilla

Mix sprouts with milk in Vitamix until smooth. Add salt, vanilla. Add flax seed & blend until the mix is the consistency of pancake batter. Pour into nonstick heated pan & cook on medium low, turning as needed, till done.

Bananna Syrup

• 2 ripe bananas
  
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1/4 - 1/2 cup pure water
  

Blend bananas & vanilla in Vitamix till smooth. Add water to achieve desired consistency.

That's what we had for supper last night. Man, it was good! The pancakes are so dense that they are very filling, but without all the fat & gluten's in regular pancakes. The banana syrup had a very intense flavor. I'm sure you could add blueberry's, strawberry's, or whatever to the pancake batter to make them even more flavorful. IHOP has nothing on us!

Seriously, pancakes without guilt? Too good to be true...

Hope you enjoy these ; ) Let me know what you think if you try them out.