Welcome to "A
Taste of Paradise".
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My name is Evita Tezeno,
you know I'm from the south
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and we love our banana
bread. But when I became a vegan
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that banana bread
went out the window.
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But not really, I learned
how to make banana bread raw.
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Yes, raw banana bread.
That sounds a little gross.
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No, it is delicious. It's loaded
with sweetness and goodness
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and also pecans. I love
my pecans child, love it.
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You know us southern people
just have to have our pecans.
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Well, let's go to the recipe
and let's see what is in store
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for us today. The ingredients
for the banana bread toast are:
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So here we go. We have our
raisins here and I'd like to
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start off, this is our
sweetner in our banana bread.
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So I have the
maple syrup and the water
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and then I'll put the raisins
in. Then I will put the salt.
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Our sea salt.  And we are
just going to blend this up.
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And if you don't have
a high powered blender
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maybe you need to
soak your raisins first
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so that will soften them
up a little bit so they can
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grind up a little better.
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So now I have my pecans and
I am just going to chop them up
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real quickly. I remember
growing up, we had a pecan tree
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in the back yard and I just was
always excited when Fall came
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because I was able to have
fresh pecans and my grandmother
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was such a great baker and
we always had fresh baked items
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every Fall with the pecans
that grew in the back yard.
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It was such a
wonderful childhood that I had.
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So now we are going
to put almond pulp...
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Now the almond pulp comes
from when you make almond milk.
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This is the leftover sediment
from the almonds so I keep this.
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You can freeze it, also
you can dehydrate it to make it
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into flour but I keep it in the
freezer until I get a chance to
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make cookies and breads or
whatever else that I make with
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the almond pulp. So we
have almond, the almond pulp,
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cardomon and corriander.
Now most banana bread
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has cinnamon in it, but
cinnamon is a little irritant
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to your stomach, so I
use a substitute of cardomon
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and corriander together that
makes a really nice substitute
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for cinnamon. And
our three ripe bananas.
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I'm going to take this
little part off of here.
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You don't want any
dark spots in our bananas.
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Just mash this up.
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And you can use a
food processor if you want
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but it is just so easy so
you just mash this up together
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like that, it
doesn't take a lot of time.
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So let me get my spoon and
incorporate this real quickly.
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And I have my liquid
sweetner ingredients.
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And if you don't like the
taste of raisins you can use
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dates too but the
raisins make it a little sweeter
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and I just love
the flavor of raisins.
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So you mix this ingredients
up, throw in your pecans.
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Now, in most banana
breads there is egg and our egg
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is flax seed. So you can
either ground up the flax seed
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in a blender or you can
also grind it up in a...
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if you have a little spice
grinder or a coffee grinder...
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this is how you get it
nice and fine like this.
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Now we have a mixture in...
I wish you guys could smell
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this, this smells incredible.
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You smell the bananas and
you know bananas are very good,
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it's high in potassium so
it's good for soreness of joints
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and it also has tryptopan in
it which turns into seratonin
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which makes you happy.
So bananas is I call it a
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happy food, it makes you happy.
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So I'm going to
take this out of the way
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and I have my trusty dehydrator.
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Now dehydrator is like,
I would say the raw food,
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raw food oven because it pulls
the moisture out instead of
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baking it. It pulls the moisture
out, it kind of drys the food.
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So the hydrator, the
bread that I am using Xcaliber,
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I call it the Cadillac
of the dehydrating a world.
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