Last night I awoke to a dentist drilling my teeth!!!!!!
In reality, I woke up to my husband drilling in the basement. He has been doing renos all weekend and apparently he thought it was a good idea to drill and hammer at 11:30pm at night!? Then once he came up to the room I couldn’t fall asleep until 12:30, so my goal of 5:45am wake-up was shot. I did manage to get up around 6:30 though so all was not lost. :)
You know what I discovered?
I love RAW Breakfast Cakes (see here for Baked Breakfast Cake)
Just like cake batter…
I had this mini Raw Breakfast Cake with my breakfast:
This morning’s breakfast featured a new Sherriff in town:
Can you believe this was my first time ever trying cashew butter?!?!?
Oh dear me.
Cashew butter tastes like a DREAM. Rich, creamy, and subtly sweet.
It paired well with this delicious cranberry jam that Chelsea sent me!
Pure heaven…
What is your favourite and least favourite (nut) butter?
I have tried the following:
- Peanut
- Almond
- Cashew
- Pumpkin Seed
- Barney Butter (yes, it deserves its’ own class!!!!!)
- Apple butter (Not a nut butter but oh well!)
I don’t know what it was, but I strongly disliked the pumpkin seed butter!!! Totally not what I was expecting. My favourite hands down was CRACKbutter…otherwise known as…Barney Butter. Ohhhh Emmmm Geeeee, When Bree sent me a bunch of it, I finished them in lightening speed.
I am eager to try out new kinds of butters. What should my next one be?
I think it might be coconut butter. I have been dying to try it!
This morning and most of the afternoon is a shipping day for me. I have over 400 Glo Bars shipping out today. I do all my shipping labels myself (I have a corporate account with Canada Post) as it saves my customers 8% off shipping. I also need to squeeze in a workout and start baking orders once my shipping is done.
It has been raining the past two days! It is currently 6C/43F right now…such a weird winter we are having!
Have a wonderful Moan-day! ;)
Most successful people have not achieved their distinction by having some new talent or opportunity presented to them. They have developed the opportunity that was at hand.
–– Bruce Barton
Thanks for sharing about the nut butters. I have not been very adventurous in trying them out.
I haven’t tried cashew butter or even Barney Butter! But my favorite is Trader Joe’s crunchy peanut butter!
I was one of those weirdos in elementary school whose mom would buy all sorts of “natural” foods before they were cool. So, while my friends had Skippy and grape jelly, I had cashew butter and apricot preserves. My favorite though, to this day, is good old natural peanut butter from one of those grinders at the grocery store.
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I’ve also been dying to try coconut butter! I’d say my favorite is almond butter. Sunflower seed butter is a close second!
Hi, I’m allergic to nuts and peanuts, so I go with soy nut butter. Someone mentionned sunflower seed butter…I might try that next time!
Sunflower seed butter is wonderful (I’m sensitive to nuts also)!
Ive always stuck to almond butter but Ive been wanting to make my own hazelnut butter! and ive never tried coconut butter either but very curious about it so let us know how it goes!
I made my own hazelnut butter and it was sooo good!
coconut butter sounds fabulous. My boyfriend is allergic to all types of nuts, and I have yet to find him any kind of butter. This coconut butter seems like such a fabulous idea.
Thien an
I grew up eating peanut butter, so I love it …but it doesn’t agree with me.
SUN BUTTER is AMAZING… the most similar nut butter to peanut butter.
I also had a “pomme buerre sale” (apple sauce with butter and salt) spread in france this past summer that was amaaaazing.
I actually am not a fan of almond butter but I looove barney butter so I have to agree that it deserves it’s own class. My other favorite is Nutella!! Hey, it counts ;) it’s made from hazelnuts afterall.
I just bought almond butter for the first time and I think it will take some getting used to. Maybe the barney butter will be more my style.
I love barney butter! But I cannot find it anywhere near me..and the samples I ordered were finished, as you said, in lightning speed !
I’d say sunflower seed butter (sun butter) is right in between almond butter and peanut butter in terms of taste. Almond butter with honey mixed in the jar is incredible- though I guess as a vegan that’s not quite an option ;)
PB2, powdered peanut butter, is absolutely fantastic in Green Monsters- it gives a peanut butter taste in a small and concentrated amount. Also, two tablespoons is only about 50 calories.
I like pear butter! Also, not a nut butter…
Pear butter? Mmmmm..I wonder if they have that here in Canada.
That’s it!!! I’m moving to Canada!
I’m a huge fan of peanut butter going way back! But it’s so expensive over here (France). My hunt for Almond butter (which I have never tried, but I’m very curious about) has been going on for two weeks now, to no avail.
So all this talk of cashew butter, has me totally flustered! Cashews are my fave!
Oh I forgot… I tried Free-Nut butter in Australia, not too bad. It’s the Nut free alternative for people with Allergies… poor things.
Natasha, if you can’t find it elsewhere, you could try this country, I’m sure they deliver over the border into France… if you scroll down to the bottom, you’ll find Artisana almond butter ;)
http://www.keimling.eu/.cms/59
Cashew butter is SO GOOD! I think my current favorite is sunflower seed butter though.
I love cashew butter too! My favorite nut butter is… readdy? Macarona almond butter with vanilla bean scrapings and chunks of almond and walnut. Mmmmm
I’m not sure how close you are to the NY border, but if you ever find yourself at a Farmer’s Market in Upstate NY, check out Saratoga PB co! We have some really unique nut butter blends and there’s a few new flavors coming out in Febuary. Here’s the website: www.yopeanut.com
-Mae
i love peanut butter…it’s just the perfect creaminess! i’ve been wanting to try macadamia nut butter for a while now though…i can’t imagine it’s going to have a TON of flavor, but a perfect creaminess! :)
try sunflower seed butter! it’s SO AMAZING!
Hi Angela!
I have been following your blog for a while and really enjoy it!
I discovered Almond Butter last year and absolutely love it! There isn’t a day I don’t eat some AB!!
Peanut butter is not my fave, but almond is awesome!
I got a jar of coconut butter the other day but haven’t tried yet, I did try chocolate coconut butter though and it is really yummy!
Do you like walnuts? Walnut butter is interesting too, not my favorite, although the one I tried was raw walnut butter and I do prefer the roasted ones.
By the way, have you tried both Raw and Roasted Almond Butter? Which one you liked best? I love the roasted one, but find the raw to be a little strong.
Oh, and do you really like Barney Butter all that much? So funny, I got it the other day and both me and my son (who is 7) were not fan of it, it sort of didn’t taste like almonds to me… and the roasted almond flavor is what I love on AB.
And, speaking about apple butter, have you tried Pumpkin Butter, also yummy!! I like it better than the apple one.
Ok, wnough butter talk!
Love your blog!
Ana
ok i know i’ll be the odd man out here, but i think almond butter tastes weird! but i would like to try cashew butter.
I think it does too–at least the one brand I’ve tried (Maranatha).