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Thank you to everyone who entered!
Tis the season….for a Cookbook Giveaway! Just in time for the holidays, I’m giving away two signed copies of Nut Butter Universe. Even if you already have your own copy, you’ll want to enter this giveaway because, as you can see in the above photo, it makes a great gift, especially when you put it in a basket with a jar or two of your favorite nuts and/or nut butters.
Best of all, you can enter this giveaway more than once, since there are FIVE ways to enter:
1. Leave a comment at the end of this post telling me your favorite nut butter and how you like to eat it.
2. Subscribe to this blog.
3. Friend me on Facebook or Twitter (I’m @GlobalVegan)
4. Like my Vegan Planet page on Facebook.
5. Spread the word about this giveaway on your own blog or on Facebook, Twitter, or other social medial.
That’s it — you can enter once or enter five times, if you want to! Two winners will be chosen at random on Sunday December 15 at midnight (when the context closes). Winners will be announced right here on Monday, December 16. Good Luck!
In the meantime…here’s one of the ways I like to eat walnut butter — I think these Spinach Walnut Crostini will be great to serve over the holidays. To make them even more festive, I’m going to sprinkle some minced roasted red pepper on top to get that “red & green” thing going!
Spinach-Walnut Crostini
This popular Italian appetizer is made with toasted bread rounds that are usually rubbed with a cut clove of garlic and crowned with a savory topping. This recipe is from Nut Butter Universe by Robin Robertson © 2013.
3 garlic cloves
Olive oil
9 ounces fresh baby spinach, chopped
2 tablespoons walnut butter
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Salt
1 baguette, cut into 1/2-inch-thickslices
2 tablespoons chopped toasted walnuts
2 tablespoons finely minced roasted red bell pepper or sun-dried tomato (for the holidays!)
Finely mince two of the garlic cloves and set aside. Cut the remaining garlic clove in half and set aside.
Heat 1 tablespoon olive oil or 1/4 cup of water in a medium skillet over medium heat. Add the minced garlic and cook until fragrant, about 30 seconds. Add the spinach, stirring to wilt. Stir in the walnut butter, red pepper flakes, and salt to taste, blending the walnut butter into the spinach, stirring until any remaining water is absorbed. Keep warm.
Preheat the oven to 400°F. Brush one side of each slice of bread lightly with olive oil. Place the bread, oiled side up, on a baking sheet and bake until golden brown, about 10 minutes. When the bread is toasted, remove it from the oven and rub the oiled side with the cut sides of the halved garlic clove.
Top each piece of bread with a small amount of the spinach topping. Sprinkle with chopped walnuts red bell pepper. Serve hot.
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My favorite kind of nut butter is almond butter and I love it in the food processor with frozen banana and a bit of cocoa powder or chocolate hemp protein powder…yum!!
The crostini recipe looks really good, Robin. My husband keeps asking me when I am going to buy your Nut Butter cookbook. Maybe Santa will come through for me this year and I will get to finally try all those nut butter recipes!
I have to just pick one favorite nut butter? LOL…Well I am not a vegan and I love Nutella. OMG that stuff is like crack and I can’t have it in the house or I will eat it all.
I usually just toast whole grain bread and spread the Nutella on top. Best warm.
I love them all! I usually choose pb b/c it is cheaper, but love almond butter too!
I love walnut butter on homemade ‘wheat thin’ crackers!!! It’s so easy to be VEGAN thanks to cookbook authors like Robin Robertson – my personal favorite!!!!
My favorite nut butter is almond butter, and I eat it on everything: toast, oatmeal, apple slices, bananas, graham crackers. Hmm, I think it’s time for a snack now….
Sorry, but still fall back to good old homemade natural peanut butter, with only peanuts and some oil for ingredients, you can’t beat that on some good whole grain crackers with homemade tomato jam or spicy salsa! But will say the way you put these recipes together and the pictures makes one want to try to make and/or buy another style of butter…
My favorite is pistachio butter. I make it in my food processor, then throw in frozen chopped bananas for a super quick and delicious pistachio banana “ice cream”.
Yum! Almond butter …
…on toast!
My favorite is peanut butter and I love peanut sauce on noodles. I also adore the peanut butter cookie dough ice cream shake at Chicago Diner!
Peanut butter on a rice cake. Seriously delicious!
Good ole peanut butter is my favorite nut butter. Almond butter is not too shabby, either. Happy holidays, Robin!
Forgot to add, of course the best way to eat pb is straight from the jar!
My favorite legume butter is peanut. I’ve eaten most of it as a sauce on kale or pasta.
Second favorite is a seed butter: sesame tahini. I’ve eaten most of that in hummus and baba ghanouj.
I have not met a nut butter I didn’t like 🙂 I put it in a lot of my foods, sweet are savory!
Right now I’m loving almond butter. I usually throw some in a smoothie but would love other ways to cook with it.
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It’s most certainly peanut and I just love to use it for one of your recpies Indonesian Eggplant with Peanut Sauce, a dish I made several time, and just love! I think it’s wonderfully useful in a lot of situations. I also love it on rye bread or just any bread with banana!
My favorite nut butter is almond butter. I love it as a dip for apple slices, pear slices and celery sticks.
I love plain old creamy peanut butter.
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Peanut butter! Love with apples and toast!
My favorite nut butter is almond butter. I like it in cookies and in pancakes 🙂
As boring as it seems…Peanut Butter!
I only get it when I can grind the nuts myself, so I know what’s in there!!!
Peanut butter on a waffle with coconut yogurt on top….great breakfast!
OH I think I have loved every nut butter I have ever tried. I definitely use crunchy peanut butter the most! I like it in/ on everything!!
Almond butter on toast
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Peanut butter is still my all time favorite. I love to use it in everything from muffins to soup.
My favorite kind of nut butter is Almond Butter. I usually just eat it right off of the spoon! YUM!
I will always always love peanut butter and apples. (Just had some minutes ago!)
I like natural chunky peanut butter (just peanuts and salt) with fig preserve in a spoon. Also like cashew-based sauces from vegan restaurants. Thanks for your wonderful recipes.
My favorite nut butter is almond butter, by itself, on whole grain toast.
I have to say that chunky peanut butter will always be my first and strongest love! And the classic pbj is still my favorite way to eat it although I often dip my carrot and celery sticks in the jar for a snack too!
I like almond butter on bananas! Fruit & nut NUT!
My favorite nut butter is the cashew one I think…miummm !!! I like it in smoothie and baked goods recipes.
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I don’t know if tahini counts but I love it in savoury dishes!
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Thanks for all of the great recipes last month! I eat lots of nut butters, but peanut butter still reigns.
Almond butter on pretzels…pure bliss!
I like almond butter, either on toast by itself or mixed with agave as a waffle/pancake syrup.
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I never met a nut butter I didn’t like! I really can’t pick a favorite, but I’d sure love to win a copy of your book!
My favorite nut better changes, but it’s currently chunky raw almond butter. I like it spread on cinnamon-raisin english muffins with jam.
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Almond butter on toast or peanut butter with apples, depending on the day! Thanks for the giveaway! 🙂
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My favorite nut butter is almond butter and I like it in a green smoothie with strawberries and banana and I like to eat it on crackers!
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I like peanut butter stuffed in peanut butter cups!
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Great! We’re pretty traditional, but would love to branch out beyond our PB&J!
I start nearly every day with maple almond nut butter mixed in with my oatmeal. Oh and a banana sliced up on top!
Peanut butter is my favorite…but of course it’s the only nut butter I’ve ever tried. Which is why I need this book, haha.
peanut butter with apples
Almond butter! Or cashew butter with bananas or apples. Or on toast.
Only nut butter found locally is peanut BUT do remember almond from childhood. Have made my own when peanut butter was not available where I live. Ways to use it? Stirred into hot cereal, spread on toast with hot chunky applesauce on top, in peanut butter – banana smoothies.
Love them all. I regularly make peanut and almond butter. Sometimes walnut, pecan, cashew, or sunflower seed butter… yum! Eat by the spoonful or on celery, carrot, or apple slices, or on whole grain sandwich bread with raisins and cinnamon.
I am still pretty loyal to peanut butter. But I’m also a fan of walnuts.
I love all nut butters! I pick the natural, unsalted & unsweetened varieties. Right now, I’m eating a lot of almond butter. I love it on apple slices.
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Peanut butter on apples…or almond butter on toast, it’s a tie 😀
Asking me which is my favorite is like asking which child I love the most. ???? Not possible to choose one over the other…love each for their own individual self. ????????????????
And while I eat nut butters many ways, “straight up”, from a spoon is probably my favorite!
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WOW… I’ve not tried walnut butter …yet! What a nice appetizer for the holiday parties!
I love almond butter and can eat it by the spoonful.
My favorite is vegan pb or powdered peanut butter on bananas, apples, cucumbers, and celery.
My favorite nut butter is good old fashioned peanut butter! creamy texture but still with some crunchiness :+)
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Peanut butter is my favourite, especially in a savoury sauce
Cashew butter is my favorite – by the spoonful!
I love spicy peanut butter noodles or pasta. I could eat it every day.
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My favorite kind of nut butter is pecan because I LOVE pecan pie. 🙂
Walnut butter on everything!
I love Trader Joes unsalted crunchy peanut butter! It makes a great orange-peanut salad dressing a la Joel Fuhrman! Would love to have the cookbook. Also in my cupboard: almond butter, cashews, tahini. We love nuts and seeds!
I’m a classic Peanut Butter fan. I like to sit on the floor of my kitchen and share it with my beagle Spartacus and fat, black cat Minnie. Peanut butter, it brings families together!
I make my own peanut butter and use it to bake cookies!
My favorite nut butter is almond. Love it with apples and bananas!
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Love to blend mostly peanuts with some almonds for a delicious smooth and creamy spread for my homemade biscuit skillet bread!
Also love to blend this homemade conction with banana smoothies or banana “soft serve.”
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I Love Almond Butter and I Love it with carrots or sweet potatoes
I love peanut butter spread on top of a banana and add a dollop of home made coconut ‘cream’. The best healthy ‘cheat’ ever for me! 😉
Almond butter! Best straight out if the vitamix !
Huhh..this is really hard to choose, but my vote goes for almond butter first (and then for the other nuts as second) with some cakes and fruits.
My favorite is almond butter. Everyday I make a smoothie with almond butter, almond milk, a couple dates, frozen banana, kale, a pear and a dash of cinnamon n nutmeg. Healthy and delicious!
I love crunchy peanut butter with banana or jam as a sandwich. It makes such an easy lunch because all I have to do it put some bread and a banana in my bag and head for work. I keep a jar of peanut butter in my desk drawer always – for emergencies! It fills me with cheer at the end of a long morning. 🙂 Not sophisticated, I know, but who cares!
Almond butter is my favorite but good peanut butter is a very close behind. I love both of them on whole wheat bread. But another way I use almond butter is to mix just a bit with the sweetener (usually maple syrup) and the oil that I use when I make granola.
My favorite is peanut butter. I like to eat it with apple slices, or make a peanut sauce for Pad Thai.
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I have to be honest…peanut butter is my fav! It’s just a classic. I just recently made almond butter for the first time and was a little clueless what to do with the strong flavor!
I like peanut butter with apples 🙂
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Absolutely love homemade cashew butter. It’s fabulous on almost anything but I’m a big fan of mixing it with melted dark chocolate, coconut milk and coconut for an easy, delicious fudge.
I usually stick with peanut putter because it’s cost effective. I love it in Thai or Vietnamese noodle dishes. I need to get better about making my own nut butters. 🙂
Cashew butter for cheesy recipes and almond butter for nut butter and jelly sandwiches 🙂
I like either almond or cashew butter with curry and evoo over fresh cauliflower baked for a spectacular appetizer or dinner accompaniment! I didn’t think I liked curry or cauliflower until I made this! Awesome!!!
Thanks!
KCK
if you arent a huge fan of curry,like my daughter,try buying fenugreek,can be bought whole and use your spice grinder or already ground.its one of the spices in curry powder that gives it the”curry”flavor,by itself is much milder.i got mine at a fabulous local indian market,but some larger grocery stores may have it or your local whole foods organic type market
Almond butter is wonderful – but so is regular peanut butter! The recipes look yummy and thanks for the chance to win! I also “liked you” on FaceBook!
i love using cashew butter thinned with a bit of braggs amino acids and sometimes purred cannelini or butter beans as a sauce for udon noodles with broccoli or other stirfry type veggies,yum
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I’m on an almond butter kick lately. I like to eat it on a whole grain English muffin (toasted) with a dollop of apple butter on top.
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My favorite is natural peanut butter with just a touch of salt. I like to smear it on bananas.
I love tahini because in the kitchen it’s so versatile, but i neve really gave a chance to other less common butters, would love to try them!
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Peanut butter on Apple slices with cinnamon…:)
Hi Robin, I love your cookbooks! I also enjoy learning new tricks of the trade from you when reading about and making your recipes. I am a bit obsessed with nuts, however I haven’t gotten a chance to explore many recipes involving this particular ingredient. I would love to get a chance to explore further if this universe happens to be nuts about me and allows me for a chance to win your awesome cookbook 🙂
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So far I have only tasted almond and peanut butters.Love them both.Fav sandwich is maple syrup+almond butter on whole grain bread,sandwiched with thin slices of apples.I pack this for lunch for my kids too.
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Definitely cashew butter. My favorite method of consumption is spreading it on a banana. Yum!
Any nut butter on crackers is my fav snack!
Peanut butter, because you can use it in everything – sweet to savory.
Peanut Butter is my favorite nut butter and I eat it most often with strawberry jam on bread.
Sun seed flower butter on a spoon!
My favorite nut butter is cashew butter! And I like it with apples or just right out of the jar!
My favorite nut butter is cashew butter! I like it made into a savory sauce or whipped with honey to serve with apples.
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Peanut butter-chunky- in anything Thai.
My favorite nut butter is peanut butter. I like it in sweet and savory dishes, from cookies to soup.
I love all nuts and the butters they produce but I have been a lifelong devotee of the peanut. PB&J, PB on celery or apples or bananas… and most deliciously of all peanut butter sauce! on noodles, stirfries, anything really. mmmm.
I like pecan or walnut butter on toast!
Hi Robin!
Right now, I’m loving pumpkin seed butter (does that count? It’s not a nut technically…hehehe)
Hi Robin,
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Hi Robin,
my final entry (finally!) I’ve tweeted to share your giveaway.
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Organic sunflower seed butter with maple syrup on organic whole wheat bread!
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Cashew butter, in veggie patés
I like peanut butter or almond butter straight out of the jar!
I’m a total newbie, but very interested in this. Sounds like yummy and healthy recipes.
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So hard to pick a favorite but I’d have to go with cashew butter…my fav way to use it is to add a couple tablespoons to my creamy cauliflower/potato soup, makes it so rich and creamy while keeping it dairy free!
Peanut butter on toasted whole wheat bread with sliced bananas .
I love Sunflower Nut Butter on toast.
My favorite is peanut butter, on my oatmeal every morning!
BTW, I just got my copy of One-Dish Vegan a few days ago and it’s just wonderful. I have tons of recipes bookmarked 🙂
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I like to use cashew butter in pureed white bean dips.
Walnut butter with sliced apples.
Peanut butter is my favorite but cashew butter is a close second! LOVE your recipes!!!
I like peanut butter the best
Thanks for the giveaway! I love crunchy peanut butter on a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on homemade whole wheat bread on a road trip when I’m really hungry.
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