Margarita Almonds Anyone?

As I wrote in an early post my son Nate started an almond business in April. A month or so later he was able to buy a commercial smoker and I brought it back with me. My son thought that I could smoke almonds for his business.
At first I just smoked almonds which sold well at the farmers markets but people started asking why we didn’t make flavored almonds. I wasn’t sure how to make flavored almonds or which flavors to even make. After looking at several books and articles on-line I had a couple of ideas and then Nate had tried some flavors with roasting.
I started out adding some olive oil, sea salt and pepper to a bowl then adding almonds, and after mixing them then smoking them. After many experiments I found that adding lots more salt and pepper is much better.
After that first batch of almonds I came up with the idea of soaking almonds in Key Lime juice then smoking them. Now I’ve expanded the smoked almonds to include: those with white wine, red wine, port, dark beer, pale ale, garlic, garlic and salt, and a “Margarita” Style using tequila, Key Lime juice and salt.

Tomorrow morning is the farmers market that I work for my son so I’ve been getting the almonds together. Our customers will be asking for their smoked almonds that they depend on us providing.