To satisfy that sweet tooth I battle on a nightly basis, I adore this simple, delicious treat filled with healthy, vegan ingredients…

2 frozen bananas

1/4 c. almond milk (soy or rice milk work too)

2 T. raw cacao nibs

1-2 T. peanut butter (I used fresh ground PB out of the nut grinder at Whole Foods, its amazing)

Blend bananas, milk, and 1 T cacao nibs until smooth in a food processor or high speed blender. It will be close to the consistency of soft serve. Heat the PB and remaining cacao nibs on the stove top and drop bite-sized dollops on top of blended bananas. Enjoy!

This desert is my spin on this recipe from Poor Girl Organics – check her out!

♥CM

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Ingredients:

2 cups unbleached ap (all-purpose) flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup sugar
pinch of salt
1/3 cup poppy seeds
zest of 4 lemons
2 cups buttermilk
2 large eggs, lightly beaten
2 tablespoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon vanilla extractMix buttermilk, eggs, butter, lemon zest, vanilla extract, and poppy seeds in one bowl.

In another bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking soda, and baking flour.

Combine this goodness into one bowl.

Stir until mixed, do not over mix.

Proceed with usual pancake pizazz, butter pan, and serve with your most delicious syrup, be it Aunt Jemima or homemade fruit syrup from jam (just mix your favorite jam w water and heat on stovetop until syrupy).

Fresh strawberries don’t hurt either.

I finally got around to making these maple-roasted brussels sprouts with toasted hazelnuts! Thank you, Caitlin, for posting this recipe, I’m in love! I served mine on a bed of rice, but they’d make a delicious side dish all by themselves. The only thing I’d recommend is decreasing the time a bit (but then again, my sprouts were on the small side). Also, I threw the hazelnuts in the oven with everything else for the last few minutes to get them extra toasty.

Happy eating!

I wanted to take a quick moment today to highlight Yogala Echo Park, a serene and beautiful yoga/healing sanctuary.

Yogala offers a variety of classes and services, from donation power yoga classes to sound healing and tarot readings.  I also am open for Thai bodywork appointments here on Friday afternoons/evenings.

Plus, you can pick up a C pur mat, towel, vegan mat bag, or some of our jewelry among other lovely locally-based, fair-trade, and healing products in their storefront.

They also do a lot of fantastic workshops/classes, so check out their site (www.yogalaechopark.com) and like “Yogala Echo Park” on Facebook for updates!

Jordan Grader–our Nom-aste contributor up in San Francisco (and one of my best friends and favorite people)–has launched a site focusing on elegant and easy food for healing, Love+Nomz.

Jordan is an inspiring individual in a number of interesting ways–I’ve always known her to be obsessed with creating community, delving into complicated social issues, and bringing spiritual ethics into daily routine.  And, as I discovered long ago while she was breaking locks at 3am one morning to get to the sorority kitchen freezer to access cookie dough, she loves food.

These qualities turn out to make her an excellent authority on ways to eat that are healthy not only for you and the people around you, but for this giant blue marble we all inhabit in space that we call Earth.

But the best part is that I’ve eaten her food, and it’s delicious.

The site is an especially excellent resource for people dealing with cancer or eating disorders – she provides an approachable template to a healthy lifestyle with recipes galore.

Follow her for a subscription to recipes and share, share, share!

Nommmmmmmmm.

Soon, we will offer a list of studios that have agreed to be a drop spot for our yoga mat repurposing program. All you’ll need to do is drop off your used mat, along with your name and email address, and C pur reps will pick it up and donate it to someone who can continue to use it. Where your mat will be donated depends on the condition. Gently used mats can be donated to places like the Aviva Center in Los Angeles, where our local rep Caitlin teaches yoga to troubled teens. Older mats can be given to animal shelters, where they can serve as comfortable lining for dog/cat crates, or to homeless shelters, where they can add a layer of padding and love on which someone can sleep.

The beauty of this program is that you can donate any mat you no longer use, it doesn’t have to be a C pur product. To thank you for your donation, we will email you a discount code for any online C pur purchase! Whether you’re in the market for a new mat or simply have a few old ones laying around, you can help someone out and give yourself the gift of something new to compliment your practice. Stay green and share the love!

The love card.

“Wisdom and power–without love are deprived of all worth”

via crystal reflections – two of cups 

Illustrations of 2 of cups from Thoth deck, a Belgian tarot deck, and the Rider-Waite deck

Organic ribbed tanks available in black with copper ink and white with black ink, $28

Yogashcittavrittinirodhah (Patanjali)

“Yoga stills the fluctuations of the mind”

Tank sales benefit Yoga Gives Back

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