Can we make? Yes we can! Almond Butter

We thought about starting a theme of posts called “Can we make it? Yes we can!” We’ll see how often we actually do this. But for starters, here’s Almond Butter!

Do you know how easy it is to make almond butter (and peanut butter, etc.)? Easy! You just grind the heck out of some almonds.

Do you know how time consuming it is? Very. We do not have a food processor so we used our immersion blender attachment. The thing is - that thing can get over heated, so we had to take frequent breaks. What should have taken about 30 minutes took us two hours. Oh well, we were happy about our creation:

(we only used a few of the almonds)

 And here is a picture of some of our homemade almond butter on our homemade bread:

Testing it out:

  

Will we do this again?  I would love to... once we get a better grinder contraption :)

For the time being, I’ll let someone else do the grinding and I'll buy it packaged, or I’ll go to Fresh Market and grind peanuts or almonds there.