What to do with almond milk leftovers

Posted by on July 4, 2011 No comments

Update: Well that recipe has some serious bad food combining and after baking I doubt that there will be healthy nutritions left that can be absorbed by our body’s. So please share what you do with almond milk leftovers.

Warning experimental… try at own risk :D

My almond, honey, cinnamon somethings:

  • 2 cups of almond milk leftovers (from 2L of almond milk)
  • 1T of cinnamon (experiments with some other spices/flavours)
  • 3T of honey
  • 2t of coconut oil

Preheated my oven at 180 degrees Celsius, used a large bowl to mix the ingredients, first added some cinnamon then the honey and then the coconut oil. Moulded the ingredients together after every step, made small balls and spread them out on the baking tray. Used the cover of a glass jar to press the balls into round thingies. Baked them for about 30 minutes or so. I also flipped them after 15 minutes. I added some melted chocolate on some of the cookies.

So here are the problems where I can really use your advice and tips!

They don’t feel as cookies yet, they are a bit soft and very dry. I also don’t know if the almond leftovers are high in fat? The coconut will be, so in either case combining it with honey (sugar) is not a good food combination… What will make it more like a cookie (harder and less dry, needs some air bubbles in the texture…)

Since I am producing a lot of almond leftovers I would really like some more healthy way of using the leftovers. The best suggestion I found was to not create leftover and just mix the almonds when making a smoothie. But this means I have stock soaked almonds all time…

I don’t have a dehydrator so any recipe using them will currently not help (yet) :0

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Getting a new blender; vitamix or blendtec

Posted by on July 4, 2011 No comments

Not so long ago my old blender died on me and I had to fall back on my hand blender. This will actually work for green smoothies!

But I wanted something better. So I started reading some reviews and asked around. A vita-mix or blendtec seemed a bit expensive and I wanted to blend green smoothies with lots of leafy vegetables.

So I bought myself a Tribest Personal Blender PB-250 with 475mL cups and some nice accessories. I used it for a while and it does work great. But 475mL is just to small for me and takes to much time to make larger batches.

So I made the investment to buy a vita-mix 5200!

Why I bought a vita-mix? After watching some video’s how people where using the vita-mix and its tamper on slow speeds I shifted towards vita-mix instead of blendtec. The 7 year warranty and reports of better after sales from vita-mix was an other shifter. I do like electronic buttons used by blendtec, but It seems more convenient to rotate a knob to control the variable speed of the blender, so an other shifter towards vita-mix.

Blendtec does seem easer to clean and since its now available with a larger canister this may be a downside for vita-mix.

So far no regrets about the vitia-mix! A pleasant surprise where the recipes and information that came with the vita-mix. The tamper works really great, and I can do vegetable blending at the low speeds without adding water and make a large batch of almond milk on the highest.

Please share your experiences and links about your blender used for raw food and alike.

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Buying fruit at the local market

Posted by on July 3, 2011 1 comment

Being all new at this blogging and writing and having no idea where it will lead to I will just start somewhere. (oh boy…)

When I first started eating more fruit and vegetables I used to do my weekly shopping at the supermarket. With a cart full with healthy food the total price got quite high, compared with a non-plant based diet. (this will be a nice topic for an other post surrounding our government mostly subsidising meat production but not organic fruit and veggies)

So I stared to free some time on Wednesday or Saturday to go to our local small market. I guess I had not been there for more then 8 years!

I usually bring two fold-able crates with me to save packaging materials and just let them fill the crates. I mostly buy fruits since my vegetables are coming from an organic allotment garden (volkstuin in Dutch and more about organic gardens in an other post)

The local market is a great place to get food from a more reliable source, most products are produced in our own country and some are organic. The prices are also better then in the supermarket! I just ask where the products come from, every week is there is some variation on what is available.

The owner of the fruit market stand is a great enthusiastic guy always telling me if he got something organic or interesting.

I am currently spending about 8 a 9 Euro per person and per day on fruit in the summer season here in the Netherlands. How much are you guys spending on fruits with a high-fruit plant-based diet?

So that is how my weekly fruit stock looks like, my taste buds are already adjusted to all this fruit!

So my first tip in eating more fruit and vegetables is to buy them at your local market and ask some questions about the products and where there coming from!

Please share your own experience when buying fruit…

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