Getting back into shape sucks. Am I seriously the same person who would run 20 km every weekend? Plus cross-training, yoga and speed/hill repeats interspersed throughout the week? I'm having a hard enough time getting back to running 10 km ... cumulatively ... throughout the week :(
Anyway, I've discovered how to do something new and exciting... ok, it's new and exciting (to me)... making my own nut butter! It's SO easy. Why is this exciting? You can make your nut butters to taste! And you can avoid all of the nasty hydrogenated oils that are added to pre-made nut butters. I had thought that it was cheaper to make my own peanut butter, but once I factored the cost of the electricity to power the oven and food processor and the gas/time to obtain materials - I think it barely broke even. HOWEVER, homemade nut butter tastes SO much better!
The process:
Step one: Acquire nuts. I picked up raw peanuts from Bulk Barn, but any nut will do.
Step two: If nuts are not roasted, roast nuts by placing on some sort of oven safe tray, turn on oven (350F) and place tray inside oven and close door. Check nuts obsessively every 30 seconds to make sure they are not burning. Get distracted by re-run of How I Met Your Mother and start watching show. Realize at commercial break that nuts are in oven, proceed to panic, run over to oven and pull out tray.
Step three: Let nuts cool. Sample delicious freshly roasted nuts every 15 seconds. Burn mouth and fingers each time, complain about the burny pain and then continue sampling delicious freshly roasted nuts. Once nuts are cool, place nuts in food processor and turn on. Wait for magic to happen...
You can add a touch of oil to help the process along a bit. I added a drop of sunflower oil. Once it became buttery, I sweetened it up with some agave syrup. We're almost there...
Yay, done!! Can you tell which one is mine?
