Flavor rules – always!
Cool thing about making almond – or any nut – butter on your own is that you can add anything you want to it to make it all yours.
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May 28th, 2018 
Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Breakfast, Fitness Food, Special Recipes 
Comments Off on Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut Picture Recipe Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut Picture Recipe
May 27th, 2018 Anti-Inflammatory Foods, Anti-inflammatory Recipes, Breakfast, Cycling, Cycling Food, Fitness Food, How To & Tips, Nutrition, Special Recipes Comments Off on Homemade Almond Butter: Training Food Extraordinaire – All in Pictures Homemade Almond Butter: Training Food Extraordinaire – All in Pictures
I’ve always been a big fan of almond butter: great flavor and texture, terrific energy sustainer. Years ago, when my favorite vendor of that almond butter – and many other favorite food products, Trader Joe’s, experienced a recall and then was only able to dole out cases of new almond butter the way Apple doles out new versions of its iPhone, a Trader Joe’s salesman I’d gotten to know asked me quite bluntly, “Do you have a food processor?”
June 5th, 2017 Blog, Cycling, Cycling Food, How To & Tips, Special Recipes Comments Off on 6 Days to Cancer Ride + Almond Butter Power Fuel in Pictures 6 Days to Cancer Ride + Almond Butter Power Fuel in Pictures
6 days to the Central Mass. Bicycles Battling Cancer ride (please consider donating – I’m just about half way to my $300 goal). Almond butter will certainly be part of the breakfast I have to power that ride next Sunday. I had a fat tablespoon of it just now with French toast (made with killeer BirchTree Bread Co. seeded levain bread) to prep for a 30+ mile I’ll take later this morning. Here’s what you need to make almond butter on your own.
The food processor does all the work (yah, you definitely need a food processor). You just have to clean the food processor when it’s done – but that cleaning is well worth the incredibly fresh, rich flavor. Click any picture on this page for complete step-by-step picture book directions that, you bet, include how to clean a food processor (sometimes you just can’t have too much fun!).
Fuel up, ride on!
July 18th, 2014 Blog, Breakfast, Cycling Food Comments Off on Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut – All in Pictures Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut – All in Pictures
Nut butter. It’s great stuff for it’s energy packing protein and healthy fat content. It tastes great. And, it’s easy to make. What you see above is what I had after a good ride with excellent cycling bud Ken Kolbe to Wachusett Mountain in Central Massachusetts (below) – cherry pancake with nut butter and fresh peach and mango. 
Not too long ago, I posted a fresh almond butter step-by-step picture book recipe, which you can get by clicking this link. But, hey, the Tour’s on. It’s all about France, great cycling, incredible scenery, and terrific food and flavor. So, here’s how to make Almond Butter with Dried Cranberries, Flaxseed and Toasted Coconut. 
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