The list of things we're out of is growing at a dizzying rate. Coffee, wine, cheese sticks (heck, we're out of cheese), butter, sliced turkey (a staple for kid lunch), and it goes on. Today we remedied the peanut butter situation, buying a pound of bulk peanuts for $3.08, and turning them into a pound of home made peanut butter ... which probably would have cost us $3.08 to buy, but hey, it was fun. We usually buy the natural "peanuts only" brands anyway so we're all happy with the results.
Skinning the peanuts was the hardest part. After trying a few things we resorted to rubbing them in a colander, outside so the skins could blow away. Messy!
Then we dumped them in the food processor with a little salt and a tsp of honey (that we can't taste so I'd either up it next time or forget about it), ran it for a while, then drizzled in a tablespoon of oil.
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| Lousy picture via my lovely assistant's iPad because my hands were busy, one with salt and one with, well, hanging around. |
Then you just let the processor run, and it all balls up and the ball just kind of rolls around making you think you wasted your Frugal February money making a large ball of useless peanut meal. Then you let it go a little longer and then - toot toot - peanut butter! The ball just flattens out and the peanut butter gets pretty smooth and creamy. Not like store bought but pretty good.
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