You can make soaked, “crispy” pumpkin seeds, Nourishing Traditions style, from your Halloween jack-o-lantern pumpkin seeds. Making pumpkin seeds hardly takes a recipe, and the soaking process will decrease nutrient inhibitors and increase nutrition immensely (see my series on soaking grains for more or grab the free soaked recipe eBook HERE). Other Halloween posts: Decorating [...]
Entries Tagged as 'crispy nuts'
Recipe Connection: How to Make Crispy (Soaked) Pumpkin Seeds
October 19th, 2010 · 19 Comments · Recipes
Tags: crispy nuts·fall·halloween·Nourishing Traditions·pumpkin·seeds·soaked nuts
How to Make Crispy Nuts: An Update
June 25th, 2010 · 15 Comments · Do It Yourself
Two days was just too long to wait. I was shocked when my first attempt using my Excalibur to make soaked and dehydrated almonds and walnuts took two full days. I used a lower temperature than I had in the past with the smaller Nesco Snackmaster because the Excalibur handbook spoke of “raw and living [...]
Tags: crispy nuts·dehydrator
What can an Excalibur Dehydrator Do?
June 17th, 2010 · 12 Comments · What to Buy
“It better be able to make the whole meal at the touch of a button,” my husband said when he saw the Excalibur come out of its box. It’s as big as our microwave, and as heavy. This is truly the extent of my counter space available for working. And yes, it’s always this messy. [...]
How to Make Crispy Nuts to Reduce Phytic Acid
April 21st, 2010 · 65 Comments · Food for Thought, Recipes
Although I’ve been researching soaking grains (catch up on the posts here) like mad, I haven’t come across any particular research on phytic acid in nuts. If I defer to the phytic acid expert, Amanda Rose, she also claims there is not much food science on nuts, perhaps because grains are a bigger concern because [...]
Tags: almonds·Amanda Rose·crispy nuts·dehydrator·Nourishing Traditions·nuts·phytates·phytic acid·soaked nuts·walnuts
