Category: Beverages

Water kefir

Natalie Hanson

1/4 cup of water kefir grains

1/4 cup turbinado sugar

  • Fill with room temperature water in vented jars
  • Let sit for three days at room temperature
  • If it smells fermented, strain the liquid into clean, new jars
  • Add one shot of juice (any non-citrus fruit juice), and put solid lids on the jars
  • Check regularly until fizzy
  • Refrigerate and enjoy!

Nut milks

Natalie Hanson

For use with the Almond Cow.

Pecan or almond
1 cup unsoaked pecans / almonds
1/4 tsp salt (optional)
1/4 tsp vanilla (optional)
1 Tbsp maple syrup or other sweetener (5 pitted dates for almond milk)

Cashews
1 cup unsoaked cashews
1/2 tsp vanilla or other flavoring (optional)
2 pitted dates or sweetener of choice (optional)

Hemp seed
1 cup of hemp seed
3 pitted dates
1/4 tsp sea salt
2 tsp vanilla extract

Walnut
1 cup walnuts (soaked)
1 Tbsp vanilla extract
3-5 pitted dates
Pinch of salt

Rice
2 cups white rice (cooked)
2-3 pitted dates or 2 Tbsp maple syrup
1/2 tsp salt

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1 Tbsp maple syrup = 13 g / carbs divided by 5 = 2.65
Pecan = 8 g carb / cup divided by 5 = 1.6 g / cup of pecan milk
Almond = 5 g carb / cup = 1 g / cup of almond milk