hey guys retired at 40 today we're making a very short video on how to make
some homemade almond milk and I'm gonna do a vanilla almond milk I'm gonna show
you how to make some homemade vanilla as well just a couple of ingredients in a
couple kitchen tools and you'll be on your way so the first thing you need is
two cups of raw almonds you can also use cashews the cashews they taste a little
bit different I'm just gonna do the almonds today so you can either soak
these overnight or you can boil them for about an hour and it will make the same
effect it basically just takes the almond and it makes it so it can be
blended okay so once these have soaked overnight or you've had them boiled you
need four cups of water and I'm using a Vitamix blender you don't have to have a
Vitamix blender but it will have to be something that's very high-powered or
it's gonna take you a while to get all of it blended so next we're just gonna
take these and strain them then we're going to add these to the four cups of
water and we're just going to blend them until it's pretty much a smooth
consistency
this is where the Vitamix comes in because most blenders can't do this
if you've never used a Vitamix before check out the steam coming off it shows
you how powerful these things are the blades are moving so fast and there's so
much friction that it actually heats it up if you ever get a chance to use one
of these give it a shot it's a real expensive blender but depending on what
you're gonna do with it the things amazing I'm pretty sure you could throw
rocks in here and make sand so this is what you're after a pretty thick
consistency you can water it down depending on how thick you want your
milk we actually use it for smoothies so it's really good when it's thick like
this but we're not quite done next you want some kind of straining bag like
this a cheesecloth will work but you need something that's gonna catch pretty
much all the solids but let the liquid flow through and then you're just gonna
pour your milk through the strainer here I'll give you a close-up so once this is
in here just let it sit for a while and it'll drain through and it'll keep all
your solids in the bag after this has had a few minutes to drain you can just
you actually just need to kind of force the rest of the liquid out and if you
feel like it you can pretend like you're milking a cow maybe an almond cow so
what you're left with is the almond milk and everything that's left over from the
bag and this it looks similar to bread dough if you made it homemade but
there's still lots of nutrition in here you can use it for a lot of different
stuff you can put it into smoothies you can use it for baking but a lot of
nutrition and a lot of goodness still left in there so if you want vanilla
almond milk just do about a teaspoon of vanilla and I promised you I would show
you how to make homemade vanilla it's extremely easy
so take four vanilla beans and these are the big thick vanilla beans you need
about four of those you want to dice them in half stick them in a bottle like
this and then fill it with vodka yes vodka
and let it sit for about four weeks and it's good to go after that it's a real
potent vanilla extract and what we do is just leave the vanilla beans in there
and then when we need more we just keep filling it up with vodka and then you
can throw in a couple extra beans here and there when you start to diminish the
flavor so here's what the vanilla beans look like
I'll put an Amazon link in the description below also put a link for
this straining bag you can use it for a lot of different other things just
beside - almond milk and I'll put a link to the Vitamix that I use as well it's
the last thing to do is just throw it into a container keep it in your fridge
it'll keep for a long time easy homemade almond milk with a splash
of vanilla you could also do some coconut or some other different kinds of
flavors you can also substitute the almonds for cashews if you want to gives
it a little bit different taste I'm gonna do a few of these videos to lead
up to a freeze-dried video where I'm gonna do all plant-based freeze-dried
food we're gonna kick it off with the almond milk but until next time this is
retired at 40 remember live life simple we'll catch you next week so so here
they focus the beans that I use I'll put animals and animals