Peanut! Peanut Butter!

 

 

The life of a teacher/runner's wife is full of protein of all kinds.  When Derek tutors, his days run about 9.5 hours.  Add running 5 miles at 4:45 am and 3 miles at 4:30 pm on top of that and I have one tired man on my hands. 

 

He is also a create of habit.  Cheese and sausage for breakfast.  PB&J, pineapple, and chips for lunch.  Grilling and veggies for dinner.  Every.  Day.  How then do I add in some extra healthy protein for him?  Peanut butter.....everywhere....all the time.  A spoonful at breakfast.  A spoonful for dipping his afternoon Kit-Kat in.  Or mixed with Nutella and whip cream for his own special mixture of happiness. 

 

We happened to have a container of peanuts left over from a recipe I never tried so what did we do with it? That's right! Made home made PeAnUt BuTtEr!!!

 

Here's what you will need:

•  Peanuts (any kind! Honey roasted, dry roasted, salted, mixed nuts, etc)
• Food processor
• Oil (veggitable, peanut, olive, any kind will do)
• A container to put the peanut butter in (I used a square Rubbermaid so you can use anything if you don't have a free mason jar)
• A small spatula to scrape the edges of the processor
   

 

 

 

Here are my peanuts!

 

 

I did batches because my food processor is small.

Pour about 1/3 of the peanuts into the processor.

I only have Chop and Grind on mine so I chopped for about 1-2 minutes.

The peanuts become like powder. 

Then Grind for about 4 minutes.  Scrape the sides of the processor to help mix every now and then.

 

You might need to add a teaspoon or two to the peanuts throughout the process. 

Of course, this is completely up to you.  If your butter looks a little dry, add some oil. 

 

Voila! 

 

The more you mix the creamer your peanut butter will become.

 

Of course, Derek had to do a "taste test" throughout the process. 

He found that it was a little bland so we added salt while mixing.  I think that if the peanuts were salted that probably wouldn't have been a problem.

 

 

Peanut butter has become so expensive and it's SO much fun to make things with Derek. 

 

I can't wait for our next adventure!