Category Archives: Chips & Crackers

Video: DIY whole grain mix for homemade crackers and chips

This video shows how to make your own custom whole grain mix, a key ingredient in the cracker and chip recipes in my book, “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers.”   The mix of grains left whole has a one-year … Continue reading

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Video: How to make your own whole grain crackers — Easy, healthy, and delicious

This video walks you through the quick, easy steps on how to make your own whole grain crackers.  After you watch the video, you’ll be able to make these crackers yourself.  The unique technique that I demonstrate is from my … Continue reading

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Topping ideas from Sunset Magazine

Better than cheese and crackers (Sunset June 2012) has these recipes: olive and pistachio, beets and preserved lemon, BLT, zucchini and harissa, strawberry mascarpone, and cheese and chocolate, which will work very well on crackers, but wait until you’re within … Continue reading

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Commercial egg white, hummus, and other chips

Bloomberg recently had an article about how a greater variety of chips is available now. Instead of paying 10 times as much to buy them, use these ideas to make your own chips at home. You can use egg whites … Continue reading

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Corn chips with blue corn or masa harina flour

The 2nd edition (print version) of Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips & Crackers has a much better corn chip recipe than the 1st edition, since I found out that additional kinds of flour helped to make them shrink less and … Continue reading

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These are every bit as delicious as they look!  If you bake these Crunch! Whole grain artisan chips and crackers at home, you won’t be tempted by unhealthy, fattening factory food chips & crackers.  

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Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers

Learn a quick and simple way to bake Chips & Crackers in the new book, Crunch!  Whole Grain Artisan Chips & Crackers.  Authored by Oakland’s Alice Friedemann, Crunch! is based on five years of nutritional research and kitchen experimentation, and … Continue reading

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Beet water for red coloring

You can add more red to any chip or cracker by grating 1/4 cup of red beet, and then boil it for a minute in 2 to 3 cups of water (depending on how dark and intense a color you … Continue reading

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Over 20 kinds of grain, lentil, bean, rice, corn, and nut flours to make chips & crackers from

Delicious and Nutritious — look at the many kinds of grains, beans, lentils, nuts, and seeds you can combine to make really tasty chips and crackers. Chip or Cracker What? Grind in Coffee & Spice Mill Stores: Packaged or bin … Continue reading

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White Bean Dip

  1 can (15 ounces) white (cannellini) beans, rinsed and drained 8 garlic cloves, roasted 2 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons lemon juice In a blender or food processor, add the beans, roasted garlic, olive oil and lemon juice. Blend … Continue reading

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