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Nut Butter

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a nice book to make your own and how to add them into different recipes. good for those who want to make their own and want some recipe ideas.

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Nut Butter is a wonderful cookbook on making delicious nut butter from scratch. Avoiding refined sugars, the authors rely on natural sweeteners, such as honey paired with natural spices. The recipes in this book are peanut=free, sugar-free, gluten-free, and dairy-free. All you need is a food processor to get started.
Health-conscious eaters will find some inspiration in this book.

Thank you to the authors, NetGalley, and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

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This is a lovely book full of recipes and ideas for making your own nut butters. There is lots of information about ingredients, roasting,, storage etc. Learning about the authors, their business and motivations was interesting too. There are some really interesting recipes and the illustrations are lovely. A great book for all healthy eaters and cooks in general.

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If you love nut butters, this is the book for you! I enjoyed learning about the company, Ground Up, in Portland, OR, and love that they make it part of their mission to help women in need of a fresh start. This is not a charity, but rather a for profit business using their company to do great things. A handy guide to nuts and nut butters is a good primer before getting into the recipes. The recipes are marked as being gluten-free, dairy-free, peanut-free, refined sugar-free, vegan/vegan option, paleo, whole30 and/or ketogenic. Most of the ingredients are fairly easy to find, many already in a well stocked pantry. There are ten nut butter recipes, followed by many recipes for using the various butters. While I regularly buy freshly ground peanut butter from my local co-op, I'm looking forward to trying some new nut butters and using my old standby for more than sandwiches, cookies and dog treats.

One thing I will say is, if you can afford organic, please go that route. While nuts may not be covered in pesticides due to their shells, choosing organic (certified or simply grown with organic methods) means fewer pesticides being used which is better for the nut farmers/workers and the environment. This company does use a mix of organic and not and also places an emphasis on buying from local farmers which is great, but I wanted to point out that it's not always about what's left on the food itself if you have a choice.

Thank you to Andrews McMeel Publishing and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review.

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Thank you #netgalley and publisher for allowing me to review this eARC.

It is extremely informative and easy to follow. Pictures and explanations are extremely helpful to those who wants to make their own nut butter!

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What a wonderful book full of nut butter recipes and beautiful pictures. I love that the authors explained their business and what they believe in such a wonderful mission they have to assist women who need help starting over. Their recipes are easy to follow and there are some surprises in there- things I would never really think to use nut butter for! Thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for an ARC copy in exchange for an honest review.

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Interesting cookbook containing a lot of facts about the different nut butters. I like that the book discussed the authors business, and the work they do for cultural change as well. It helped to understand why they do what they do and what experience they have, so that when you get to their advice about why you should be eating nut butters, you know you can trust their guidance. While there were not nutritional breakdowns for the recipe (usually a minus star for me) the fact that it had each recipe marked down with which specialty diets it suits is really great (gluten free, dairy free, peanut free, etc), particularly if you are trying to make some of these to share with others, or to give as gifts (basically, I'm a fan of anything you can put in a jar and put a bow on, and while that's not the intended/advertise use of these, that was the first thing I thought of going through the recipes).

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I love the idea of nut butters but when I cost it out they are expensive to make and so will remain a treat rather than a staple. If you want to have a go at mKing them yourself this is the ideal book and I would highly recommend it. Lots of information about different nuts and their uses. Also lots of delicious recipes.

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I received an advance copy of this book via NetGalley.

I love nut butter and use it almost daily in making batch recipes for my breakfasts. I love making it from scratch, and using store-bought versions. To my delight, this book meets all my needs! <i>Nut Butter</i> is written by the chefs behind a nut butter business out of Portland, Oregon. Not only do their nut butter and baked goods sound divine, but they sound as if they are doing tremendous work within the women in their community as well. That positive pass-it-on vibe made me all the more excited about their recipes.

The book begins with the basics, talking about different nuts, how to store them, how to roast them, etc. To my surprise, I learned some new things, like how glass is best for storing nuts, and how most all nut butters are actually shelf-stable for up to a year--so they don't HAVE to be refrigerated, despite what the package says! From there, it goes into different nut butter recipes, all of which sound delicious. I intend to try several.

After that, the book shares recipes with different ways to utilize nut butter. As noted in the book's cover copy, "All recipes [are] peanut-free, gluten-free, dairy-free and refined sugar-free." These range from the standard smoothies to savory recipes, including a mock alfredo recipe that fascinated me. There are pictures throughout, and the recipes are formatted in a way that makes them easy to read.

This is definitely my kind of cookbook.

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This is very interesting and informative. It will be a great help in the future.

I do recommend this.

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** Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with the digital copy of this book in exchange for my honest review **
La propuesta de este libro es muy interesante, ya que da opciones, a personas que por tener determinada patología, están privadas de consumir alimentos con determinadas características, y suelen tener menos opciones para elegir. Ademas también se adaptan a cualquiera que quiera consumir mas saludable, sin conservantes, alimentos no tan procesados. Tengo que decir que todas las recetas ademas, suenan increíblemente deliciosas.

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What a beautifully crafted book. I love how they talk about there business. They give so much information on nut butters. The recipes are basic and easy to follow. They are also base recipes that allow multiple additives to them. I will be only making nut butters at home from now on!

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One of the authors was diagnosed with SIBO - Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth.
GAPS-diet . GAPS stands for Gut and Psychology Syndrome
Can SCD - Specific Carbohydrate Diet Improve your digestion?
Low fodmap diet

You can swap butter with nut butters in baking. How about that?
Making coconut butter with coconut flakes

Dispels myths like creamy cashew being high in fat content. Compares Almonds vs Peanuts.

Walnut-Cashew butter sounds amazing.
I havent heard of smoked honey before and the procedure to make it is so interesting.
Interesting flavors like Birthday cake.
Nut butters dont have to be sweet. Case in example - Fenugreek-walnut nut butter.

Many recipes for nut butters as well as cookies, pancakes that you can make with these nut butters.
If you are feeling snackish, you can make Bliss balls or fat balls.

Nutty nuggets about the source of nuts in US, for example 99% of hazelnuts of US from Oregon.
coco - Portuguese word for folkloric monster.

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