27 Aug 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

The General Store Stand In For Almond Flour Today? Your Farmers Market, If You’re Lucky

Almond flour: Grind almonds, and you have almond flour. Easy enough. But then there’s that homemade jam predicament.

In measured doses, making homemade jam (and nut flour) is a quick margin doddle, a fun dinner work-hour diversion. Or at least if you ditch the canning part (full disclosure: I love making jams, but hate canning them, so I simply stash them in the fridge for a month). But “easy and quick” doesn’t mean that strawberry-rhubarb number actually happens. Which gets us back to almond flour.

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31 Jan 2011, Posted by admin in EAT + DRINK, 0 Comments

Almond Debate: Is Fat Uncle Farms Making Marzipan Or Almond Paste? Depends On The Century + Who You Ask

In today’s world of health-touting food packaging, even hard alcohol is boastfully going organic (you would think 80+ proof would make anything pesticide free). And so there is an insidious pleasure in buying farmers’ market fresh, and obviously healthy, chunky almond butter, sea salt-roasted almonds and almond flour from the small Wasco-based Fat Uncle Farms. They make no excuses about that chubby man lounging on their label — or their stellar [and old school] marzipan.

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