Toasted Almond Butter

Toasted Almond Butter

Ingredients: 1 lb bag of organic California ALMONDS

Take Almonds and put them on a cookie sheet and preheat oven to 400 degrees

Place almonds in the oven for 10 minutes, checking after 8.

Remove from oven and allow to cool for 10 minutes or longer if you are patient.  

I like them WARM not hot for the food processor

Place in food processor, and turn it on.

at first you see this, spinning almond meal

see almond crushed up.

then after a few minutes you see it kinda clumping to one side

and then a almond ball and you think, what's going on in there!

It's all good, let it do it's thing.

Finally it smooths out after about 8 minutes and starts to look like almond butter

this is when I do a good scrapping of the top and the sides to get it all in there.

after another minute or so you have ALMOND BUTTER.  Total time in the food processor, anywhere from 8 to 11 minutes.

Toasted Almond Butter!  YUM!  We eat almost daily with an apple, a pear, or a banana.

Roasted garlic hummus

Roasted Garlic Hummus

Ingredients:

1 can Garbanzo Beans or Chick Peas (It's the same thing)

1 heading tablespoon of Tahini

Oil- I use avocado, cause it's super healthy and I like it, and I had it, and well I wanted to.

Roasted Garlic, olive oil for it.

Quickly I will tell you how to roast garlic, get a garlic bulb, cut off the top about 1/3 of the way down so you cut all the tops off each clove.  Take some tin foil and place the garlic on it, pour some olive oil on the garlic so it seeps in the bulb around each clove, wrap that tin foil around it but try not to let the tin foil hit the garlic cloves, so wrap it LOOSELY.  Bake in a preheated over at 450 for 50 minutes.  Let cool for at least 20 before handling it.   Remove the cloves and compost the rest.

take the garlic, drain the beans/peas and add a good whopping tablespoon of tahini.

Blend

Blend some more and scrap the sides and add in the oil by taking the top center thing out and adding it in slowly.  I would say maybe a tablespoon or 2 at most.

Keep blending

Add water if it's too thick for you, taste it, season with salt if you wish, I do not.  You can add anything else you so choose.

Keeps for at least a week, doesn't usually last that long in my house.

We eat it with Gluten Free Chips, Carrots, or use it on sandwiches if you eat bread. Levi Loves Hummus!

Roasted Garlic Hummus

By Vicki Schweiss :)