Ready For Fresh Local Fruit? We are!

Bananas..there are bananas everywhere. They are all very ripe. And I'm learning that the big bananas are not actually my favorite. Lol. It's okay, because I know they are sustaining me and filling me with life loving energy until the fruit and veggie season really picks up and everything begins grow and interesting delicious things show up in the food co-op. I'm super super excited..I've been eating a lot of champagne mangos and  halawy dates, and of course banans. ;) hahaha.
They actually aren't that sweet..or flavorful. But they do make yummy ice cream. We're going to give people banana ice cream when it gets warm. Also did we mention? We're having a Spring Fruitluck next Saturday, on April 20th from 3pm to 8 pm. If you're around you should check it out. It's going to be super fabulous, with lots of fresh good fruit and beautiful persons.
The other day we each ate half a watermelon for breakfast. I don't think I've had a good melon before that in literally, months. And it was truly good :) The only thing I wish is that I could've ate the whole thing myself, lol.
I'm so grateful for my life. I'm so happy to be my best friend. So much I (we) have wanted is beginning to manifest and it's beautiful. It's beautiful.

So love this spring for all it's worth and live to the fullest.

Spring Inspiration - For the Love of Fruit :)

A Delicious Salsa made from Mango, Avocado, Tomato, Cucumber, Cilantro, Rainbow Chard Stem and Green Onion. Pile into a Chard Leaf and enjoy :)

Simple Guacamole made of avocado and lots of tomatoes, cilantro, ginger, and celery. Scoop with celery boats.

Lettuce Tacos with smooshed Avocado, Tomato, Red Pepper, Cilantro, Carrot, and whatever else you wanna put in there :) Very easy and yummy way to eat your greens.

Fresh and Simply Spring Salad: thinly sliced Cucumbers, Avocado slices, Purple Carrot slices, Sprouts, thin slices of Celery, and some citrus juice. I used lemon and mineola. This is super yummy :)

And last but certainly not least, this Banana Ice Cream Fruit Tart:
Just take a small amount of dates and a tiny bit of nuts and process them to form a crust. Top with 'nanna ice cream and some fresh fruits and there you have a simple low-fat creamy raw desert. 

We hope you enjoyed all these pictures and have fun experimenting with the low-fat high-carb raw vegan lifestyle, and be sure to try some of these simple and delicious recipes and tell us what you think :)
Have a wonderful spring, full of rebirth and excitement!

And eat as much fruits as you wish :)

love,

the nama sisters

FRUIT IS LIFE AND LOVE AND TRUTH

Raw fruit-filled life = LOVE and TRUTH.

Eating simply creates simpler emotions and thoughts. Mono meals are great to give the body a chance to relax from the confusion of complex mixed foods. Cooked complex foods are more confusing for the body, but even raw complexity can be confusing since this is not found in nature. You walk through the forest, you find a bush of berries, you eat as many berries as you want until you feel full, and you go on your way. You wouldn't save some for later to eat with the peaches you're going to find.

Eat fruit. Eat lots of fruits - no deprivation baby! Eat to your heart's content, and feel gratitude for the life and awareness that you are integrating into your physical form. Plants are life. Listen to your body. Listen to your food. Listen to the birds, and the rustle of trees in the wind. Listen. Breathe. Be. Live.

Fruit is LIFE !!!

Hey everyone :) We have lots of stories to share. Our kitchen is now filled with multiple jars of kale chips, which, if you live in the Pittsburgh area, you can now buy for 5 dollars a bag. We're selling them at local coffee shops like the Java House on California Avenue, and we sold our first bag to our friends yesterday. It was their first time tasting kale chips and one said that it was better than he anticipated, and the other said they had "a complex flavor." We are so excited to be sharing our home-made recipes with people and are hoping to cater to local events.
NamaSisters has also been expanding in more personal ways. Last week, a friend of ours who has been suffering from medication and who had cancer two years ago hired us to teach her how to eat and live raw. She's been fatigued and has learned about raw foods and previously attended seminars but did not have the support, motivation and knowledge of how to apply it until now. We will be going to her house to teach her the intuitive approach that we take to scientific nutrition and also how to make delicious meals for herself. We hope to reach out to many other people and help them individually as well. If you or someone you know needs coaching or even advice, please let us know. :)

"We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our heart."

-John Ruskin (1819-1900)

Sustainabilty-what is it really?

We attended a lively party-meeting in the Squirrel Hill part of Pittsburgh the other afternoon/evening called a Sustainability Salon, and the topic was, for this particular Salon, food.
So you can imagine our excitement when we were invited by the owner of the home, Maren, to come to this gathering of Pittsburghian souls. There were farmers and consumers alike, and many familiar faces. We heard a good many speakers talk about organic farming, localization, farmer's markets, and permaculture. One guy even talked about his garlic farm. The last speaker we stayed for was, you can guess it...a cattle and pig farmer. He talked about his practices, and how he develops relationships with his animals. He spoke about them with love, and compassion. But one thing we noticed was that he never once used the accurate word to describe what he does with them before they are dead bodies, shipped off to markets and stores around the area. He used the word "processed"...um, excuse me? Did you forget to mention that you murder them?
Hm. The word sustainable does not accurately describe the production of meat from animals because a cow eats about 70 pounds of grass per day, and the man who was speaking said they aim for 80 % devastation of the particular pasture that he allows the cows to be in that particular day. I think we just need to re-evaluate what sustainability truly means, and of course this is an open-ended idea, because it means something different for everyone, since it is a value that we develop within ourselves.

At the gathering, we felt a strain because there was such a tight schedule of speakers that there really was no free time to share ideas and have open ended discussions with the 60 + people that were there. It was speakers talking to an audience, and it felt like we again were in the role of the consumer.
In this cycle of supply and demand, the consumer is always at the mercy of the supplier. This is not what sustainability looks like..and what we need to do is break free once and for all from this system. We need to start teaching each other the practices we are applying and know will work for others. Because it's not about simply profiting for your own family, it is about creating long-lasting changes for a community, changes that eventually branch off and touch the entire world. It's all pretty on the surface to pretend like we are doing something but when you get together with people, you need to have open-ended conversation and a relaxed environment so people can use their imaginations and truly make things happen.

Beautiful Food Photos

I thought, since this is a blog all about raw foods, I could write a post about all the little delicious updates that have been manifesting themselves for us lately.

DATES!

delicious gooey sweet amazingness

which we ordered from the Bautista Family.

We got a variety pack of three different kinds - Zahidi, Halaway, and Khadwary.

We got a whole 10 pounds of firm-pack dates (wet pack are more expensive) for only $55 !!!

Zahidi are chewy, and taste nutty and light. Halaway are super super gooey and sweet and soft. And Khadrawy are somewhere in the middle. They are all perfect, and I can tell you that the first row of all three is now nearing the bottom of the box ;)

And now, plenty of beautiful food photos for your pleasure and inspiration..

Zucchini pasta salad with almond ginger dressing (recipe to come in later post, because it's amazinggg)

Intimate Brazilian Chocolate Pie

Cabbage Wraps with Pineapple Sauce and Sesame Sauce

Collard Wraps with Almond Hummus

Before shot of butternut squash soup (sorry no after shot)

Rainbow Nori Rolls with Garlic Vinnegrette (so simple and yummy if you want the recipe just comment)

Alright, so there is our food updates. If you love food porn as much as we do, (and we really love fruit porn;) please tell us how much you love it and maybe we will start posting even more of our beautiful creations. 

We love love love you!

How do you treat animals?

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”

Ghandi

I just read this on a webpage for information about the Essenes. It sounds like they were some very amazing people. Every day I feel inspired to educate people about the truth of what is really happening to animals all across this earth, every single hour, every single day. 

I need those of you who are reading this to pause and take a moment to considering the nature of suffering. Those humans who suffer pain, do so by choice; they are evolved to that point of having at least some awareness of the choices that they make to either feel pain or joy, even if they simply suffer out of habit (which is all it is).

However, the animals who are tortured, kicked, punched, raped, cut, shoved into boxes, and have hate projected onto them by those who truly hate themselves, they are not choosing this. They are not choosing to be the object of another's own self-denial - they simply want to be loved. They simply want to be happy, to feel at peace with life and live in harmony with their families and their loved ones. They just want to live in freedom. Don't we all?

I know you hear it probably once every other day depending on where you live, but if you are not living a vegan lifestyle, you are choosing to contribute to the real pain and utter terror of these beautiful, beautiful very sentient creatures. You are choosing to allow the mental disease of others leak off into your life, whether you believe it or not. You are choosing fear over love. I'm not going to sugar-coat it. Even cheese and eggs are not truly vegetarian, not when the mother cow is being raped for her milk and having her child torn from her not even moments after he is born, and the hens beaks are being clipped even on organic farms. Not when this world is the way it is. And you can't continue to pretend as if you don't know, as if you don't see. Because it's clear and plain to see for all who choose a way of compassion and open their eyes.

May some part of you awaken to something you have not seen before every day. Our actions, even if they seem small, do indeed make a profound difference and impact on the whole consciousness of this world.