nut milks

[gebuh]

I made some almond milk a couple of weeks ago - it was dead simple and worked well for tea and such (soak, blend with water and strain).  Oddly enough, every recipe I looked at said it only keeps a couple of days but I found that to be completely untrue, mine kept til it was gone - over a week.
So I decided to try making soy milk.  I ordered some organic beans, they came in today.  The process for soymilk is a bit more involved (you have to cook it after soaking and mixing) but I'm going to give it a try. 
I'll report back with my results.

[diablita]

interesting.  I'll be watching for updates.

[fancypants]

Almond milk IS easy. And yummy.

[mango]

So I decided to try making soy milk.

while at it, give kongguksu a try also:



plus, more deliciousness of kongguksu here.

[caribougrrl]

while at it, give kongguksu a try also:



plus, more deliciousness of kongguksu here.

hi mango!


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[witchypoo]

mango!

[merigayle]

i want to try to make brown rice milk next. I will not buy anything with carrageenan in it and since now i can no longer drink almond milk, soy is my only option unless i make something myself. I could only find almond and soy milk without carrageenan.

[caribougrrl]

remind me again why you won't buy things with carageenan?

[merigayle]

remind me again why you won't buy things with carageenan?

I chose not to buy anything made with it because it can be extremely inflammatory to the digestive system as well as the body. I believe it is also illegal in many European countries. The doctor I saw yesterday was thrilled when I told her i made sure i did not buy carageenan.

[ihop]

hi mango!


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[diablita]

hey mango! 

[caribougrrl]

I chose not to buy anything made with it because it can be extremely inflammatory to the digestive system as well as the body. I believe it is also illegal in many European countries. The doctor I saw yesterday was thrilled when I told her i made sure i did not buy carageenan.

gotcha... I couldn't remember if it was health or ethics!

does seaweed have the same issues, do you know, or just the extracted product? 

[merigayle]

Seems to just be carrageenan. Must be something with the extraction/ processing of it that makes it so inflammatory.

[gebuh]

I soaked a cup of dried beans for about 15 hrs.  Then steamed them in the pressure cooker for 20 minutes (some recipes called for cooking them, I found one that recommended steaming for 45 minutes, I thought the PC was a stroke of genius).  Blended with 4 cups of water and strained (a really tedious process).  The results tasted kinda beany.  No one was very impressed.
I will keep trying.

[diablita]

thanks for reporting back

[merigayle]

gebuh, you need your daughter to make you tofu, didn't she used to make tofu?

I love my pressure cooker.

I guess I should find a rice milk recipe and try it this weekend.

[gebuh]

gebuh, you need your daughter to make you tofu, didn't she used to make tofu?

I love my pressure cooker.

I guess I should find a rice milk recipe and try it this weekend.

Yeah she's going to have to - I have 15 lbs of beans to dispose of.  Anybody want any?

[merigayle]

they do not go bad, dried beans, i would let her make her her own tofu for the next 10 years

[gebuh]

as an aside, after squeezing out the liquid you're left with a mass of gunk called okara.  I used it to make vegan crab cakes from here.  I fried instead of baking, they weren't bad, though next time I'll season them a bit differently.

they do not go bad, dried beans, i would let her make her her own tofu for the next 10 years

They prolly don't, but after awhile they do get old, I've seen that with other dried beans - keep them around too long and they don't soften well when you cook them.  A few sites I looked at for the soymilk stressed using fresh beans.
But I'll try that also - I have a bag of soybeans in the pantry that dd2 got a couple of years ago from a farmer nearby (we used that to make tofu) - and see how it compares.
I soaked some more beans last night, I'm going to cook them instead of steaming and see if it makes a difference.

[Dagstag v 2.0]

There is a great chocolate cashew milk recipe, as a treat...since it uses agave nectar as sweetener.  Plain cashew milk is good too, though.

http://www.shutterbean.com/2012/raw-chocolate-milk/