Almond Milk

23 July 2012

I know I just posted on my stellar kitchen practices but I felt the need to update you: my sourdough starter has gone flat. 

I'd read to be wary of Day 4. Curse Day 4 when all the life fizzled out of my lovely dough. Now I'm toying with the idea of buying an established starter. I just can't take the emotional roller coaster a second time.

But to cheer myself up, I the Dud Dud Duderson Kitchen Lady, made fresh raw almond milk (from my way overpriced "truly raw" organic almonds.) 

...and it was delicious. So delicious that I'm memorializing it on the family blog: the first ever recipe to be posted on the Log Blog. Food photography? Check.


Super Complicated Raw Almond Milk

1/2 c. raw almonds (soaked in water overnight)
1 1/2 c. water
2-3 dates

1. Put all ingredients in blender and blend (a lot) and then strain. 

I strained it through some cheesecloth (old Ikea curtains). You really have to squeeze it to get the milk out. The thickness of the milk will be affected by how fine the weave of your cloth is. (You could probably also strain it through a mesh strainer but you'd have to press it hard and long to make sure you're extracting all the milk. But you should really go the cheesecloth route. It's way cooler because you get a semi-authentic milking experience and who could pass that up?)

I've now made this twice, so I feel like an expert.

In the end you are left with a slightly sweet almond meal, that I forbid you to throw away, but don't worry. Once I do one more practice run, I'll post a raw cookie recipe and won't you love me then? 

If you have no interest in my culinary meanderings then I shall tell you a story about Jake. Who after playing angelically and independently on the porch yesterday came waddling into the house and brought me two sticks. He handed them to me and smiled, and I about died a happy mother's death. My baby had given me a present.

Well, so I thought. But based on his behavior since then I think he was bartering for something. Something big since sticks are a precious in Jakeland.  Probably an airplane. 

Excuse me while I check on him because he hasn't made a peep in about 5 minutes which means he's probably eating flakes of concrete on the porch.

Update: he's fine. He's holding a stick and waving at an airplane.

11 comments :

  1. I'm pretty much obsessed with Almond Milk. Instead of lesson planning, how about I come over and just drink this. Win win.

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  2. Did Jacob mention a "malted" when he tried it? If so then I'm dying of yum. This kid definitely wants one airplane thanks, mom.

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  3. I have been wanting to make some almond milk!!! Thanks for the recipe!!!

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  4. We eat all our food the traditional way- no sugar, no processed grains, eat grassfed beef and raw milk and all that jazz, but I had to give up when it came to sour dough bread. I make water kefir, kombucha and yogurt. After two attempts of sour dough bread, I waved the white flag. I am buying the occasional loaf of sour dough from someone who knows what their are doing! Mine tasted nothing like something I want to spend hours in the kitchen making.

    I think it's great you are trying to do all this. It's a lot of work, but it's worth it.

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