On their own, cashews.
As part of a recipe pecans in pecan pie.
Cashews, but I am told it is not a nut.
No wise-cracks please.
I'm a fan of pecans myself.
I recently started making homemade cashew butter...it's unbelievably good. I was always a peanut butter guy until I ran across Justin's Almond Butter (it's like the Nutella of the almond world, amazing stuff) and then started branching out. Super easy...dump raw (unsalted & unroasted) cashews into a food processor for a whopping 20 minutes:
Sounds like something I might have to try out :awe:I recently started making homemade cashew butter...it's unbelievably good. I was always a peanut butter guy until I ran across Justin's Almond Butter (it's like the Nutella of the almond world, amazing stuff) and then started branching out. Super easy...dump raw (unsalted & unroasted) cashews into a food processor for a whopping 20 minutes:
http://thehealthyfoodie.com/cashew-nut-butte/
For a snack, I make faux cookie dough & eat it raw...2 parts cashew butter, 1 part honey, and stir in chocolate chips. It helps if the cashew butter is microwaved for 5 or 10 seconds to make it a little warm (tastes better as a "cookie dough"). It's like healthy Tollhouse cookie dough :awe:
Yeah I love doing that too. It is so damn good!
I have tried getting cashew butter in jars at the store and I dunno, something odd about the flavor I just dont like it. Making it at home fresh is a world of difference
Sounds like something I might have to try out :awe:
I've an old Hamilton Beach food processor I haven't used for much of anything in years, still might try it out.The key is to let it run a full 20 minutes. First it's cashews, then it's small chunks, then it basically turns into flour almost - very fine chunks. Then, once it hits a certain point with the heat from being spun & from being broken up so much, it suddenly liquifies & becomes a beautiful butter. I probably ate a quarter cup right out of the food processor the first time I made it, it was amazing :biggrin: Didn't really taste much like cashews either, oddly enough...slightly sweet & VERY good.
I can't recommend going the DIY route enough...
I've an old Hamilton Beach food processor I haven't used for much of anything in years, still might try it out.