中文菜谱: 生磨杏仁露

I don’t remember when exactly I became a fan of almond milk. All I remember is that in college we pretty much ordered almond milk as our drinks every single time when my boyfriend took me out on dates. He now is my husband. We still enjoy a cup of almond milk from time to time when cuddling on couch.

Ingredients:

2/3 cup blanched almond (skinless almond would make better looking almond milk. I am fine with whole one.)
2 toasted or pan roasted sweet rice
2 to 4 tablespoon sugar (or to personal taste)
1rolled oats (optional. It makes silkier, smoother almond milk )
3 cup water

Directions:

Soak almond and sweet rice in water for 20 to 30 minutes.

Combine almond, sweet rice, sugar, rolled oats and water in vitamix.

Turn it on, gradually raise speed from 1 to 10, and then grind at high speed for 5 minutes.

In 5 minutes, you have hot tasty freshly made almond milk!

Enjoy!

中文版菜谱：蜂蜜花生酱

I posted before about how to make peanut butter with a coffee grinder, (http://www.yankitchen.com/blog/2014/10/18/-2-1). Coffee grinder is good for making small amount of peanut butter. I want to make more this time, so I go with vitamix to grind about 2 pounds of peanuts.

Peanut butter is so widely used in my home cooking that I always have peanuts and peanut butter handy. It goes great with toasted bread, dessert, and it is also an important ingredient in Asian noodles, and salad dressing.

Ingredients:

2 pound dry roasted peanuts
4 to 5 tablespoon honey
1 to 2 tablespoon peanut oil (optional)

Direction:

Place all the ingredients in to vitamix container, turn it on, raise the speed gradually to 7 or 8, and grind for about 1 minute. Use the tamper to press down the peanuts when grinding.

Plain dry roasted peanut is always my number one choice if I don’t roast them myself.

Seconds after vitamix is turned on, peanuts are grinded into big pieces.

And then those pieces become smaller pieces.

In about 1 minute, wa-lah, we have smooth and creamy peanut butter! (Please be careful when grinding peanut butter. If you smell anything other than peanut’s aroma, stop the machine!)