Posts tagged ‘Food’

Homemade Peanut Butter

We needed Peanut Butter for the West African Peanut Soup I’m going to make tomorrow. Justine and I don’t eat a lot of Peanut Butter, so I thought…Let’s make Peanut Butter. It’s crazy simple, and we have Peanuts.

The Recipe -
2 cups of Peanuts, salted and roasted (in other words, peanuts you buy most anywhere.)
1.5 teaspoons of some type of oil. I’ve seen vegetable, peanut and olive recommended - we used Olive Oil.

Add half of the peanuts and half the oil to a food processor. Use a metal blade, and let it run for approximately 2 minutes. Then add the remainder, and mix for another 2 minutes. If you want thinner peanut butter, let it run for longer, or you can add a little more oil. Be very careful, as a little additional oil really thins it out. It will thicken when you put it in the refrigerator.

According to what I’ve read, it will keep for approximately three weeks.

Pasta in Vodka Sauce

Another very good recipe from the PI

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Lychee Martini

This is a very tasty and easy to make drink.  It doesn’t require the best vodka  - Stoli works fine.  I lost interest once Martha published it in her magazine a few years ago. Bitch.

1 part lychee juice (from Lychees in heavy syrup.)
1 part simple sugar
2 parts vodka

Combine in a shaker with ice, mix and strain into a martini glass.  Garnish each drink with a lychee.