Ani Phyo Does it Again

I'm going on week three of the raw diet and can say that it has been pretty easy to stick to.  However, I knew that I needed some variety beyond the typical foods I've enjoyed.  Breakfast and snacks have been the biggest challenge since I haven't had a lot of choices.  It has been pretty much fresh juice and/or apple slices with peanut butter. While not terrible, I knew it was going to get old, fast.

Several months ago I purchased Any Phyo's "Raw Food Desserts" just because I wanted to have as much material on raw food as possible.  However, I never really took the time to read it since I'm not much of a dessert person.  This afternoon I am so glad that I did!  I discovered her recipe for "breakfast toast" which I cannot wait to try.  But it is the "Banana Bread Biscuits" that caused me to write this post.

If the "batter" is any indication, these things are going to be good!  With a mix of nuts (I used walnuts instead of her recommended cashews), ripe bananas, vanilla and pecans - the taste was beyond delicious.  Imagine real banana nut muffin batter but without the salmonella ridden raw eggs.  The ripe bananas provided a tremendous amount of sweetness and the vanilla extract provided that home-baked taste. 

The "biscuits" are currently in the dehydrater and it'll be about 6-8 hours before they are ready.  The big bonus of this is that the biscuits will, according to the book, will keep for several days (or longer) in the fridge - depending on how dehydrated they are.  As I've discovered with raw food is that it doesn't keep for more than just two-to-four days.  There are days that I come home and simply just don't want to "cook" so things like these biscuits and other recipes in the dessert book will come in handy over the coming weeks.