Homemade Vanilla Almond Milk

Homemade Vanilla Almond Milk


I realized in the last several years when I drink regular milk I feel bloated and tired, so I switch to almond milk and I love it.  You can manipulate the flavor by adding coconut, or almond extract.  You could go wild and add peppermint extract, star anise, eggnog, or whatever your mind can dream up.  To make chocolate almond milk just add 2 tablespoons of cacao powder.  To sweeten your almond milk you could use 2 or 3 medjool dates, agave nectar, or honey works well. I do not sweeten my almond milk except with the dates occasionally.  I find when you add the extracts it flavors the milk perfectly.

Serves: 6     Prep time: 5 minutes  Cook time: 0  Level of difficulty: Silly simple


Ingredients:

2 cups of Raw almonds

6 cups of filtered water...extra for soaking

Vanilla extract

Optional:  medjool dates.....agave nectar...honey

Soak nuts in filtered water for at least 4 hours but overnight is better. Cover nuts with a tea towel.  I did not cover my with a tea towel this time but I usually do and it is the recommended way :) I just forgot....Opps!!!

 
 
















After allowing your nuts to sit overnight, remove any debri that has loosen from the nuts and rinse with filtered water. 

Put nuts into blender... add 6 cups of water blend on high speed until blended.

Pour the blended liquid through a nut milk bag to filter.  Add your sweetener and flavoring :)

ENJOY :)

I put my almond milk in one of the pitchers I inherited from my mom.  I just love using things in my kitchen that was passed down from my grandmother and mother.  Although they are celebrating life in heaven now, using their kitchen gadgets makes me feel like they are cooking right along with me.  Sometimes I can even hear my mom say, "Michele don't over stir your cornbread it will make it tough."  At other times when I'm making my grandmother's dumplings I can hear her say, Shell( cause that's what she called me) make sure you flour your surface before laying out your dough." I think that's probably one of the reason I love to cook so much it makes me feel closer to them in some small way.

Exodus 3:8, "and I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and broad land, a land flowing with milk and honey, to the place of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites."
Now enjoy the milk in the land He brought you into :)