Re: Pecan nut butter brownie question

[Guest guest]

My Whole Foods stocks almond butter all the time. Ingredient for the one I have here: organic dry roasted unblanched almonds. Hopefully this one is OK. They also sell a variety of other raw and roasted nut butters, no sugar added, organic and non-organic. Marilyn Feeling the pinch at the grocery store? Make meals for under $10.

[Guest guest]

I have been making my own pecan butter for the " brownies " since last summer.

I bought a very powerful food processor (Cuisinart 14-cup), which can grind

1/2 pound of raw pecans or raw pecan pieces into about 1 cup pure pecan

butter in a few minutes. I originally bought the food processor because my

22-year-old food processor couldn't break down dry curd cottage cheese for

cheesecake very easily. The cheesecake is a staple of my diet.

After buying the food processor, I found one brand of pure pecan butter in a

store. It's Artisinal, I think. But the small jars cost significantly more

than what I pay for the raw pecan pieces I now use to make the butter for

baking. For me, it makes sense to make the pecan butter myself. I buy the

raw pecans and pecan pieces at a bulk food specialty store, that is located

within my limited driving range (because of chronic fatigue immune

dysfunction) that charges only $6.99/pound ($15.41/kg). I recently

discovered that the same store sells ground pecans (aka pecan meal or pecan

flour) for only $5.99/pound (13.21/kg), so it's worthwhile for me to buy

this product to use in breads such as Lois Lang bread. I have no financial

ties to this company, other than the amount of money I dole out for the nuts

:-) I write the prices as " only " because the bulk foods store where my

husband usually shops charges about double those prices for pecans.

I buy several kg of raw pecan pieces at a time, then weigh them and freeze

them in 1/2 pound or 1-pound quantities. The day before baking, I transfer

the frozen package of pecan pieces to my refrigerator, so that they will be

easier to grind in the food processor.

The first time I made " nut butter brownies " I used SCD-legal almond butter

from a jar. However, I found that I preferred the taste of these when I used

pecans instead. So I rarely use the almond butter now.

I have started buying pecan halves at that store as well, to " roast " in my

Crock-pot, for SCD legal snacks.

Hope this helps.

Ellen in Toronto, Canada

SCD 1 year

" sacks_debbie " <mrs.buteau@... wrote

> I've been reading about the pecan nut butter brownies listed on this site.

> I'm just wondering if you can buy pecan nut butter or almond nut butter at

> the store, if they are made legal, with no added sugars, etc.?

>

> If not, how do you make the nut butters? Thanks.

[Guest guest]

Yes you can. In Canada, you get either in the organic section of the grocery

store or at a Health food store. You can also make your own by grinding them in

a food processor till they're a buttery texture.

GERDS and chronic C

SCD 11.5 months

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> I've been reading about the pecan nut butter brownies listed on this site. I'm

just wondering if you can buy pecan nut butter or almond nut butter at the

store, if they are made legal, with no added sugars, etc.?

>

> If not, how do you make the nut butters? Thanks.

>

[Guest guest]

At 11:45 AM 3/19/2009, you wrote:

My Whole Foods stocks almond

butter all the time. Ingredient for the one I have here: organic dry

roasted unblanched almonds. Hopefully this one is OK. They also sell a

variety of other raw and roasted nut butters, no sugar added, organic and

non-organic.

The one drawback to the Whole Foods almond butter is that it's hard to

find nut butter without the skins -- you'll see little dark flecks in

their fresh-ground almond butter, which is fine for those with a good bit

of healing under their belts, but not so good for newcomers to the

diet.

—

Marilyn

New

Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Undiagnosed IBS since 1976, SCD since 2001

Darn Good SCD Cook

No Human Children

Shadow & Sunny Longhair Dachshund

[Guest guest]

I used to grind up pecans into butter for the brownies. However, when I tried

the almond butter from Trader Joe's (you can get it raw or roasted), I found I

tolerated it better. I think it may be because my processor doesn't get the

pecans as creamy and smooth as store bought butters (it would never handle

almonds). The one caveat is that the Trader Joe almond butter isn't blanched,

which can cause some people problems.

Last night I made the Yonana Muffins from EatSCD, and substituted almond butter

for almond flour. Delicious! But it took two jars of almond butter, so they are

some very pricey muffins!!!

Holly

Crohn's

SCD 12/01/08

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> I've been reading about the pecan nut butter brownies listed on this site. I'm

just wondering if you can buy pecan nut butter or almond nut butter at the

store, if they are made legal, with no added sugars, etc.?

>

> If not, how do you make the nut butters? Thanks.

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