Making your own nut and seed butters?

[harpy]

Oh I never thought about making pistachio butter before. I love the idea! Would you just spread it on your bread?

I think that's what I did with it when I had some although I think there was also a suggestion of using it on pasta.

I buy the nut butters without added oil when I can find them but the supermarket brands mostly seem to have it, even the "crunchy" versions. I suppose oil is palatable, as well as cheap

[Firestorm]

Crunchy versions are made by using smooth nut butter and adding unblended nuts, so if the smooth version has oil, so will the crunchy.
I don't mind if they use the same oil as the nut/seed in the butter (E.G peanut oil in peanut butter) then at least its from the same plant, it gets up my nose when the use palm oil.

[Beanie Babe]

After reading this thread I experimented with multiple nuts and seeds using my food processor. Walnuts work awesomely, then add vegan cocoa, sweetener of choice (I use stevia), and maybe a pinch of salt. I was eating it with a spoon, lol Was way too yummy to put on bread.

[harpy]

Mmm, must try that Beanie Babe. I like walnuts a lot but never thought of walnut butter.