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Purely Classic Recipes
I’ve been drooling over Lori and Michelle’s recipes since I first heard about them through Gina’s blog a number of years ago. While I don’t eat a totally raw diet, I really enjoy making raw desserts and snacks and everything I saw them make looked so good! So a few weeks ago when I given the opportunity to review their new e-book “Purely Classic Recipes” I jumped at the chance!
Disclosure: I was provided a copy of Purely Classic Recipes free of charge in exchange for my honest review of the cookbook. All thought, opinions and experiences are 100% my own.
The first two things I noticed about the cookbook were 1) all of the photos and 2) all of the tips and variations they provide.
Every recipe has multiple photos which something I think all cookbooks should have (I hate cookbooks that only give you a photo once ever 4 or 5 recipes!) and the photos used are big and beautiful (the only thing worse than no photo is a tiny photo 
).
As far as the tips goes, the book is broken down into two sections, baked and raw. At the beginning of the baked section the twins go over all of their favourite ingredients for gluten, dairy, egg and soy free baking and they explain why they use them. Then at the end of each recipe they also include tips and substitutions that they have tried to help you get the best results every time.
I really appreciated this because there were times I didn’t have the exact ingredients on hand, but then when looking at the substitutions I found that I could usually substitute what was called for in the recipe with an ingredient I had.
So far, I’ve had the chance to try three of the recipes from the cookbook:
Key Lime Avocado Pudding
I’ve made avocado puddings before, and have always been a bit disappointed with them. I find most recipes try to hide the fact that there is avocado in the pudding, and that is where they fail in my book. In this recipe, you know you’re eating avocado but it really does taste like Key Lime pudding. I made it for dessert on St. Patricks day and it was the perfect green dessert! 
Chocolate Cream Cake
Holy moly. This cake is awesome. One of my friends described it as tasting like a raw macaroon married a truffle and I think that is the most accurate description I have heard. Honestly, the cost of the cookbook is worth it for this recipe alone. For real. I can see it quickly becoming a go-to dessert for pot-lucks or dinner parties.
Basic Baked Donut
This is the only baked recipe I’ve tried so far, and was my first attempt at making homemade baked donuts. The only problem I had was my donut pan is a mini donut pain and I over filled it so I only had holes on one side. :/ However, that didn’t alter the taste, and I may have eaten 1/2 of the batch in one afternoon. I probably would have eaten the other half too if I wasn’t being nice and saving them for J. I gave one to my mom who said it was the best baked dessert/sweet she’s eaten in a long time. they are certainly lighter than your typical donut, but that’s not a bad thing! My advice is to make sure you’ve got a full-sized donut pan if you’re making these as there were some comments made in my house about how they weren’t “real” donuts because their hole was missing
Personally, I really wasn’t bothered.
Next up on my list of things to try from the cookbook is their individual carrot cakes with cashew frosting. They sound (and look) so yummy!
If you would like to pick up a copy of Purely Classic Recipes you can do so on their website.
What’s in your Fitness Closet?
Today I’m linking up with a bunch of my Fitfluential Peeps over at Pavement Runner’s blog to share what’s in my fitness closet.
Once you’ve read my post why not hop over to his post to see what others have in their closets? I’m pretty sure that even though I am a fitness instructor (and 80% of my wardrobe is fitness clothes) that my fitness wardrobe is probably going to be one of the smaller ones!
My “closet” actually consists of my closet, one drawer and a trunk. So let’s start with the trunk, otherwise known as Zumba Land:
Inside we have:
Zumba jackets and hoodies, long sleeved shirts, t shirts and Zumba bras
tank tops (including my favourite “Eat, Sleep, Zumba” tank)
cargo pants, and
and capri pants.
Moving on to my fitness drawer, otherwise known as Lululemon Land:
Inside you’ll find…
my Sweat Pink tops, Fitfluential Tank and a few other random tanks, my regular sports bras,
my Lululemon CRBs (cool racer backs – my fav, fav, fav tank tops), and my swiftlys (2 long sleeved, one short sleeved),
my No Limits and Practise Freely tanks, some other lulu tanks (my beloved Back on Track tank is on top)
running shorts and skirts,
and all of my crops and full length pants.
My actual closet houses all of the rest of my fitness wardrobe and all of my regular clothes. When I say fitness clothes makes up most of my wardrobe I’m not lying…
Here we have my 4 wraps (1 Splits 59 and 3 Lululemon), my 2010 Canada Olympic hoodie, 3 hoodies and my Lululemon Cuddle Up (missing from photo is my other Lululemon hoodie which is in the kitchen).
This is the top shelf in my closet. On the left you have all of my running hoodies/jackets and couple random sweatshirts (including my high school graduation hoodie – Go Gators!) On the right are all of my pants. Mixed in with my jeans are a few pairs of sweatpants, 2 pairs of wunder unders I wear as normal leggings (my herringbone full length WU’s and my grey pique WU’s).
And this last shelf is all of my regular shirts/tanks/sweaters but there are a few lululemon and nike items mixed in with the rest.
As for my footwear collection, I used to have 5 or 6 pairs of sneakers that I rotated while teaching, and then they all wore out at once. I replaced them with one pair of Nikes that I’ve been wearing for all my classes since last August (which means I’ve logged well over 400 hours in them) and they are finally DOA. I’ve ordered two new pairs online last week so hopefully they will be here soon but for now I’m wearing my Saucony running sneakers to teach in. Here is my sad shoe collection
Truthfully I do still have a few other pairs of sneakers in the basement, but they are all so worn out I can only wear them for casual use now (which is where the yellow nikes will be going when my new sneakers arrive).
And there you have it, that’s what in my {fitness} closet! What’s in yours???
