Saturday's child is... um, hungry?

Got a bad craving for smoked almonds today. So, since I decided I wasn't gonna stress about anything today (I'll leave that for tomorrow) I made my own. Yes. I did.

I didn't have any plans to fire up the big outside smoker so made them in my handy-dandy Coleman stovetop smoker. (That sucker has to be one of the World's Best Inventions. Truly)

Soaked the almonds in a saturated brine for an hour. While they soaked, I wrapped the smoker rack with foil and poked holes in it. Put the hickory in the bottom, placed in the drip pan with the wrapped grate on top.

Then, after the almonds were all nice and briny, i scooped them out and spread them on the grate.

Smoked them for 30 minutes then cracked the lid and turned off the heat. Then I took a 2 hour nap. yo ho.

Turned them out in a bowl and scraped the crusted salt from the foil and tossed them around.

Started with about 3 cups of almonds 45 minutes ago. There are about a dozen individual nuts left.

They are gooooooood!