Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
substitute?
Tanks.

Kalmia > wrote:

>Or is this something I can 'make' at home?

Any good hippie / whole earth place should have it.

Steve

Kalmia wrote:
>
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

In the 'organic' sections of the grocery store ??? Sorry, wish I could
help, but I don't know otherwise about almond flour. It'd be nice to
learn though

Sky, who's watching with anticipation for future reference & use

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On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
>It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
>substitute?
>Tanks.

Nut flours are produced by first chemically extracting their oils and
then the dry oil free nut meats are milled into flour... the oils, the
best part, is used for cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, paint, lubricants,
and such... if you're smart you'll forget all about nut flours,
consume whole nuts... you can easily make your own nut butters.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

I think it's something you can make at home, it's just ground nuts...
but I bought mine at Trader Joe's, if you have one near you.

--

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 18:33:56 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:
>
>> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
>> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
>> substitute?
>> Tanks.
>
>I think it's something you can make at home, it's just ground nuts...

Nope, you cannot make nut flour at home, least not easily... you can
make nut butter at home but to make nut flour you need to first
extract the nut oil... and why would you want to, then all you're left
with is nut trash. Nut oil is the most nutritious part.

Kalmia wrote:
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

I can find it in the health food sections of most larger markets
here, usually made by Bob's Red Mill. Also, Trader Joe's carries
it (or did--I haven't looked recently).

--
Jean B.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:45:44 -0400, "Jean B." > wrote:

> I can find it in the health food sections of most larger markets
> here, usually made by Bob's Red Mill.

I've looked at two different Safeway's and haven't found Bob's Red
Mill. I forgot to look at Lucky's when I was there the other day.
One track mind... I was looking for kitchen twine that time.

--

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

On Jul 23, 5:28*pm, Kalmia > wrote:
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. *Or is there a decent
> substitute?
Here's where I bought mine, both the plain and the toasted:
http://search.kingarthurflour.com/se...lour&x=55&y=14

I do strongly suggest paying extra for 2-day shipping from KAF, as all
of my orders before this last one took two weeks or more to arrive.
Granted, I do live on the left state-side, far from KAF, but two weeks
delivery time from them isa slower than any right side place I've
ordewrd from....Picky, very happy with all KAF products, but not their
shipping time.

Kalmia wrote:
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

Look in the aisle where the flour is. It might not be next to the
regular flours, but there should be a section with small bags of
"exotic" flours, like buckwheat, etc. You should find the almond flour,
sometimes called almond meal there. My supermarket is far from "gourmet"
and they have it.

Store the unused in the freezer. It is made from nuts and can go rancid

--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
>It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
>substitute?
>Tanks.


If you cannot locate it nearby at a B&M store, try Honeyville Grain.
Flat rate $4.95 shipping, but that is reflected in the pricing of all
the items, making some more costly than others online.

Nevertheless, once you are a customer, they send wonderful discount
coupons by email.

http://store.honeyvillegrain.com/sea...d=almond+flour

Or try Nuts Online. Great, fresh products.

http://www.nutsonline.com/nuts/almon...ral-flour.html

I am a longtime happy customer of both places. Excellent service.

Boron

On Jul 23, 8:28*pm, Kalmia > wrote:
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. *Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

I admit to being cheap. I buy the whole almonds (or skinned) and
grind them myself in my Zyliss hand grinder. Or I get the kid to do
it, since she can eat almonds while she grinds them. <G>

maxine in ri

On 7/24/2010 9:35 AM, maxine in ri wrote:
> I admit to being cheap. I buy the whole almonds (or skinned) and
> grind them myself in my Zyliss hand grinder. Or I get the kid to do
> it, since she can eat almonds while she grinds them.<G>
>
> maxine in ri
>

Maybe I should try that. I use almond meal in a blend for flour
substitutes. To answer the op, I have found almond meal at The Drug
Emporium and at a health food store.Steve is right, look where they sell
Bob's Red Mill or Hodgson Mill.

Becca

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

>Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
>It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
>substitute?
>Tanks.

If all else fails, just add 1/8-1/4 tsp almond extract to your batter.
Clafoutis batter is essentially pancake batter, and, as I understand
it, the almond flavor originally came from leaving the cherry pits in
the fruit. When cooked, there was a light almond flavor from the
amygdalin in the cherry pits.

Yes, I can get the meal/flour at my supermarket (HEB) but I usually
don't bother. I use the almond extract and it works fine.

HTH

Alex

Kalmia > wrote in news:1346eba9-1455-4ceb-80b8-
:

> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.


Almond meal can be picked up in any supermarket over here.

If you can't get it, just buy a whole whack of blanched almonds (no skin) and
put 'em in the food proccessor.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

On Jul 23, 8:28*pm, Kalmia > wrote:
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. *Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

I made do with some almonds I had around, and some walnuts. Ground
em down in the processor. Lots of work to crack open the shells
etc. - won't make THAT recipe again.

Thanks for all the suggs.

Kalmia > wrote:
>
> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. *Or is there a decent
> substitute?

The trick is to pulse the food processor when you grind the nuts. If
you run the grind continuously it moves towards nut butter. If you
pulse the grind it moves towards flour. I don't know if it's the air
settling out when pulsed or the temperature going up on the continuous
grind.

Nut meats cost more than any grain so nut flour is expensive. But it's
delicious enough to be worth the extra money.

Almond flour, paste, butter. It's a spectrum of how it was ground.

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> wrote:

> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
> substitute?
> Tanks.

I know you've already made the recipe, but I saw yesterday (Molly
Stone's) that Bob's Red Mill has an almond flour product.
http://www.bobsredmill.com/almond-meal-flour.html I also noticed that
they have the same corn flour (finely ground corn) that I bought in
bulk at the green grocer.
http://www.bobsredmill.com/organic-corn-flour.html Bob's is very
expensive! I don't know how they get away with it. Both items can be
found for less somewhere else under another brand name or no brand
name.

--

Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.

sf wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:28:54 -0700 (PDT), Kalmia
> > wrote:
>
>> Or is this something I can 'make' at home?
>> It's called for in a clafoutis recipe. Or is there a decent
>> substitute?
>> Tanks.
>
> I know you've already made the recipe, but I saw yesterday (Molly
> Stone's) that Bob's Red Mill has an almond flour product.
> http://www.bobsredmill.com/almond-meal-flour.html I also noticed that
> they have the same corn flour (finely ground corn) that I bought in
> bulk at the green grocer.
> http://www.bobsredmill.com/organic-corn-flour.html Bob's is very
> expensive! I don't know how they get away with it. Both items can be
> found for less somewhere else under another brand name or no brand
> name.
>
They probably get away with it because at most stores there is no
alternative.

--
Jean B.