When you talk about Swedish November as a cold, depressing and gray month, you forget all the scents. In fact, November smells at least as good as December.

The November nostrils meets lots of goodies that we’ve missed for a long time: the scent of burning wood, spicy slow cooker and bubble bath. And, most recently: roasted almonds and homemade quick and easy almond butter.

This week we discovered a whole corner in the pantry that was full of natural almonds, and immediately we decided to make a large batch of homemade almond butter. First we roasted the almonds for 10 minutes, and then we mixed them with a little salt.

It’s that simple! And incredibly good.