How do I salvage this failed recipe?
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Date: June 06, 2006 06:59PM
I am hoping someone can tell me how to salvage this failed recipe, and tell me how to do it next time. There may be one way to do both, but I am approaching them as 2 separate tasks.
I started with a recipe from Gabriel Cousens' "Rainbow Green Live-Food Cuisines" book for Sour Cream (p. 279).
1C Macadamia nuts
1/2 C sunflower seeds
1 T lemon juice
1 t Celtic Salt
Blend in a high-speed blender until smooth.
I used unsoaked macadamia nuts, soaked sunflower seeds, got the lemon juice by squeezing half a lemon, and did not want to add any salt until the end so I could add it to fit my taste.
I put the nuts, seeds, and juice in my Vitamix and it did ok at first while the nuts were still whole and would move around. However, as it got a pastier consistency, I just couldn't get the Vitamix to move it around. I used the tamper bar, but once it got more mixed up, the tamper bar wouldn't reach. Again and again I stopped the machine, pushed everything down onto the blades and started it again. I tried it at different speeds, pulsing on and off, and all it does is make a hole under the mixture where the blade goes around but never touches the mixture. The mixture is just too thick.
I then tried spooning the mixture out of the Vitamix into this cheap, little food processor machine I have, but, again, the mixture is just too thick.
I also tried the same thing with soaked macadamia nuts (instead of unsoaked) and when the Vitamix didn't blend it, I put it through the Champion juicer, but it's still so thick (and not smooth).
So question 1--I saved the results of both attempts and would like to be able to use them for something--macadamia nuts are expensive.
Question 2--I would like to make sour cream, but it seems this recipe as it is isn't working. Any suggestions on how to make it work?
Thanks a bunch in advance!