Daily Archive: July 11, 2012

A lotta work for breakfast

I woke up wanting oats with almond butter.  Problem: no almond butter in the pantry.  But I wasn’t willing to entertain any other breakfast ideas.  So I set to work. Dry roasting almonds until they started to smell…toasty.    I think it was ~10-25 minutes at 375 degrees.  No oil.  Nada.  Just nuts in the pan.  They took a long time to cool.  Too long.   I got impatient and tossed them in the food processor even though they were still warm. And then left them to process.  From powdery to chunky to creamy smooth… Read more >