The Hempnut Cookbook: Tasty, Omega-Rich Meals from Hempseed

I'll admit that I had to buy my shelled hempnuts (organic) online...but hemp products are slowly becoming more available. In fact, recently, I have been finding hempnut milk on the shelves at nearby health food stores, and Nature's Path has some cereals with hempnuts in them. I was able to find hemp oil at the store, and you can grind your hempnuts into hempnut butter pretty easily with a food processor. It has been a joy reading through the recipes in this book and trying a few, all with great results. My favorite banana bread recipe for years, from Soy of Cooking, was replaced by the recipe for Hempnut Banana Bread in this work. The Baklava is phenomenal, with the most fragrant syrup base I have ever smelled or tasted! And the Brownies were so unique - crunchy on the outside but soft on the inside. I can't wait to try the Roasted Sweet Potatoes with Apricots and Curried Hempseed. You'll find a wide range of recipes in this book, including familiar items like Hempnut Burgers and Waffles, but you'll also find unique dishes that combine extraordinary ingredients, like the Dandelion Green Quiche and Scallion-Hempseed Mini-Muffins. I would recommend this cookbook to anyone who would love to incorporate more healthy omega 3s into their diet, all while enjoying delicious, hearty creations!

HempNut Cookbook proffers over 200 delicious recipes for the healthful, easy-to-digest, drug-free hemp plant, which contains high-quality protein and an abudance of other nutrients. Simple, no-nonsense instructions for everything from stuffed mushrooms to vanilla hemp nut cake to spiced coffee drink and more, enhanced with a wealth of facts concerning the hemp plant and a glossary and index for quick reference. A highly acessible and easy-to-follow cookbook for anyone wanting to enjoy the bounty of this humble seed.

From "The Vegan News", Autumn 2001:Hempseed has been consumed by humans for over 5,000 years. The Hempnut Health and Cookbook details hempseed's history, its exceptional nutritional value, its medicinal properties and also briefly mentions some of hemp's other uses other than as a foodstuff. Hempnut is essentially shelled hempseed and is possibly the most nutritious plant food on earth. It can be used in many recipes as a replacement for nuts, soy products, grains or even eggs. The Hempnut Health and Cookbook contains 116 easily-prepared, mainly vegetarian recipes. About three quarters of which are either vegan or could be made vegan fairly easily by substituting maple syrup for honey and by replacing the dairy products with soya milk, soya yogurt and vegan cheese. The remaining recipes contain larger amounts of eggs and honey and would be more difficult to convert, especially for the new vegan. It does seem a shame though that we have to convert any of the recipes when the authors are themselves vegan! It's an American book, so oven temperatures are given in degrees F and ingredients are measured in cups.

From "The Hemp Report," Volume 2, Issue 14, October 2000By Dr. SumachThe long awaited hempseed reference/cookbook by "The most hemp obsessed man in America" is an attractively packaged labour of love presenting hemp as a tasty nutraceutical.Rose lays out humanity's long hemp heritage with respectful humility and credible science to back up otherwise vague industry claims of the nutritional powerhouse of hemp; Brigitte Mars paints a delicious mural of over 100 thoughtful recipes that show the kitchen worthy merits of the rebel seed -- just how yummy it can when combined with other foods -- a hemp central diet is in not implied, although it is possible. The HempNut Health and Cookbook focuses entirely on the goodness of hemp, and presents a good case for taking a restorative lunchbreak from the American hemp civil war. General McCaffrey's old school allergy to cannabis seems more like the barking of a cranky old guard dog that may have missed a few distemper shots. Once the DEA does the math and hemp rolls into America again, this book will become a valuable access tool for the hemp curious restaurant owner, or post Clinton Vegetarian crusader family. Or anyone who can get at a pail of dehulled hempseed -- appreciation of Essential Fatty Acids begins at home. As a health food hero who transformed tofu from ersatz hamburger into upscale California cuisine in the 80's, Rose sees a big hemp food wave coming on the horizon and is swimming out to meet it headfirst. He welcomes strong swimmers to join him.Rose bases his enthusiasm for hemp on favourable early market signals and a soyaman's knack for novelty and quality. Rose's firm has introduced many basic hemp foods to Cool America and Rose himself remains proactive as board director on many of the leading Industrial Hemp food organisations in America and abroad. He is infamous as the dude who trademarked HempNut, and his hard fought for ™ is generously sprinkled throughout the entire book like territorial grizzly bear scratchmarks to alert anyone still locked in casual copyright mode to beware. Mr. Rose has claimed legal title to this familiar trade phrases and does not suffer industrial bandits stealing his thunder -- why should he? HempNut, Inc. and the American hemp industry he plays such a lion's role in renders Richard Rose an enduring character in the karmic profile of hemp foods in America. The embargo impact on edible hempseed trading still shapes the response of offshore seed suppliers as they bargain for favour with US buyers as Uncle Barry irons out domestic cultivation priorities -- organic dehulled hempseed is presently an eco luxury product in America, with consumer shelf price almost at $7 US per pound. Still, Cool America shops for hemp with hope and confidence and with the Hempnut™ Health and Cookbook, they are well set to enjoy Rose includes a photo essay by RC Clarke (International Hemp Association) of a traditional contemporary hempseed food kitchen in Yunnan Province, People's Rep