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Almonds

You could just roast them in the oven (usually 350F for about 12 minutes in the middle). Or you could make

Roasted Almond Milk

Cover 1 cup of roasted almonds in boiling water and let sit for an hour (the slow way involves no boiling water but requires an overnight soak). Drain water, rinse almonds. Place almonds with about 3 cups of water in blender, process on high for about a minute.

Strain out the liquid; the last dregs can be had by squeezing the almond paste in a kitchen towel over a funnel. The leftover almond paste can be discarded or cooked with; various baked goods come to mind.

I usually add about 1/8 t of salt to the milk, though that could be added at other stages as well.

Almond Sugar Bread

I forget where I found this recipe on the Internet. It was pretty tasty, but really has too much sugar.

1 cup brown sugar (even loose packed it's a lot of sugar!)
1/2 cup butter (melted)
2 large eggs
1 teaspoon almond extract
2 cups all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup buttermilk (or instead about 5 teaspoons lemon juice and the remainder in milk
1 cup very chopped almonds, perhaps from making almond milk, above

Cream the sugar with the butter, add in the eggs beating well, add the almond extract. Whisk together the flour and baking soda. Add dry and buttermilk alternating to the batter. Stir in the almonds. Use a heavily greased 9x5 baking pan and bake at 350F for about 70 minutes.

Probably the almonds could be stirred in earlier to better prevent them from lumping, but the above was mostly following the recipe I found somewhere.

White miso can replace the sea salt,

salt.gmi

and almond milk leftovers can also be stirred into the

fruity-oaty-bowl.gmi

Maybe something else?