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My first use would be to pour it on my "friend's" head, after giving the friend a nice veal cutlet, or a whole cows head from the local market and encouraging the friend to be a normal omnivore, but that's just me.

Meat guy just keeps getting better in my book ! I was thinking a good recipe in keeping with Meat guy's spirited response would be Tête de veau.

You know what would be better to use instead of almond milk? There's this stuff that comes from a cow, and they call it.... milk! it works well with any recipe that requires milk and it tastes just like milk. Have your vegan friend try a glass, I promise they won't die from it, and they might even enjoy it! Almond milk sounds like it might go well in dishes that call for tortured, abused and exploited nuts.

You could try almond milk in baking I guess, or perhaps in curries if you can reduce it to a cream like consistency.

I can't help but thinking... Am I the only one who didn't know Almonds had teats? It must take a lot of patience, not to mention almonds to get enough almond milk to fill a carton!

Let the hate speech from the splinter faction of the vegetarians, commence!

Use it in some savory dishes. Google almond milk and see if they have recipes. If you make anything with it I would love to hear the results.

We make grøt with almond milk since I have a dairy intolerance. Gives it a nice extra flavor that complements the rice really nicely, and it seems to thicken just as well as the real stuff. So far, that's my favorite application, although it's fine in baked goods and pancakes, too.

it's great in a cappuccino.... i've also made a frozen almond milk sorbet, but it had yogurt in it .... not good if you're vegan.

Why is it perfectly acceptable for people to try to change omnivores into vegans, but not vice versa? If cows cause global warming, shouldn't we eat as many as we can to reduce the numbers?

if a person is your "friend" shouldn't they accept you for who you are? If they want you to taste something, Why two cartons? What if they are like me and don't do milk? Why do they feel they need to educate you on their mistaken impressions of what is right and wrong.If you don't like who I am, don't pretend you are my friend.

@meatguy well, the reason why cows cause a problem is that so many people do eat them that they need to produce more to keep up with the demand. If you limit your meat intake, as well as if everyone did, then the demand for meat would decrease and there wouldn't be so many cows polluting the atmosphere with their poop patties. Same goes for pigs. Just recently where I live a pig farm needed to shut down because they had too many pigs, to keep up with the demands of the local restaurants with which they provided for, and because of the large amounts of waste coming from the pigs and not a proper way to dispose of it the drinking water was polluted and they needed to shut the farm down. Just FYI.

Of the milk alternatives, almond milk is the one my husband will use for cereal. I would recommend trying it like this before going straight to a glass of it with your cookies.

If you like chocolate, mix with choco syrup for chocalate milk. If you life mochas, mix the choco-nut milk with coffee, hot or iced.

You can use it in baking, but I have never tried it with custards, i.e. creme brulee. If you have the sweetened version, you may need to reduce the amount of sugar or other sweeteners used with it. There are some very normal recipes on the company website http://www.bluediamond.com/applications/recipes/?categoryId=14&theView=categoryDetail. Almond cupcakes sound tasty, and the other ingredients are quite the usual fair.

It may not sound natural to drink almond "milk", but what animals in nature suckle another species? Human food is not natural - we refrigerate, freeze, process, bake, fry, and grill our game and produce that was raised and sluaghtered/harvested by someone else.

Perhaps it could be made into almond milk cheese. It should have a "nutty" flavor :-)

We don't eat much meat or fish at all, but if I'm serving guests, then of course I'll serve meat to them. Only, I will serve locally grown and well cared for meat. Now we're lucky in that where we live is rural and we have the option of buying local meat (and fish). I know not everyone has that option at all times.

I don't care if you eat meat or not, but if you do eat meat, please try your best to buy meat that was properly raised, and use everything you buy.

P.S. Egg Nog suggestion ROCKS!

I could see it working well in recipes calling for coconut milk. Also, consider puddings, pancakes, payasam, kheer, etc. I bet it would make a bowl of oatmeal really sing!

Everyone needs to cool. down.

BL's Unsweeted Almond milk is really low in calories and pretty tasty (esp. if you grew up on skim milk). I use it wherever I would have used milk. Not because I'm vegan or lactose intolerant or whatever, but because I think it's delish and milk gives me a tummyache. It's also good for making soups that call for cream or whatever lower in calories & fat, so shoot me.

I've tried almond milk now and again (I'm unpleasantly lactose intolerant, and spent a lot of time looking for milk substitutes, until I realized that I never liked milk all that much, anyway), and it works well in pretty much anything you'd use cow milk, UNLESS the behaviour of one of the dairy components is important to the dish (e.g. some custards and sauces), in which case, you may sometimes run into consistency issues.

As I said, I'm not a milk person, and my inclination to eat dairy hit bottom after I read a study that concluded that pasteurization renders the traces of pus in milk (evidently from mild but chronic mastitis caused by certain milking machines) harmless to consumers. Anyway, I can understand the many reasons for alternative 'milks', which is probably the best way of thinking of them; things you like for themselves, rather than as 'better' alternatives for something else (sort of like butter and olive oil; not interchangeable, but both--in my opinion--lovely; something I'm the mood for one, sometimes the other).