milk a la almond

So here is the Simplest and most cost efficient solution to all your dairy diliemas; Raw almond milk. Approximate cost: $2. Time to make? 5 minutes(exluding soaking time)

• 1 Cup Raw Organic Almonds


• 4 Cups H2O


• 1 Tablespoon Vanilla

1. Soak the Almonds in 4 cups water 4-6 hours. I soaked them over night, no biggie...

2. After soaking, put them in a blender, or vita-mix if you have one, and blend for about 1 minute, add the vanilla and then blend for another 1-2 minutes.

3. Strain the milk through a cheese cloth to remove the skins and pulpy stuff. I had to actually sqeeze the milk through the cloth with a fair amount of upper arm strength....not that its a problem for me, just saying...put your back into it.

4. Store it in a container, preferably glass, and refrigerate. Keeps up to 3 days.

and there you go....it's not very sweet, but I like it that way. If I use it with my cereal, i'll put some agave nectar on it to make it a little sweeter.

AS FOR THE PULP: you can either....

A) dry it and save it for some pretty sprinkling on like.....uh....cakes, or put it on your yogurt/cereal/whatever.

B) Dry it and then crush it up even more and use as flour!!

So if this really didn't "hit the right tune" with you, here is an alternative Raw almond recipe from the book "Everyday Raw" by Matthew Kenney:

• 1 Cup Almonds(soaked 4-6 hrs)
• 4 Cup water
• 2 TBS xtra virgin coc. oil
• 1 tsp lecithin
• 1/4 Cup Agave
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 pinch sea salt

Then put everything in a blender and blend...

I should probs mention that it does have a weird/funky after taste-theres no denying it, even the holiest of holy's vegan will agree. But man up and drink it....your heart will thank you later.