Hello peanut butter lovers! Thank you all for the comments on yesterdays postage…let me know if any of you try the pancakes, I’d love to hear what you think!
Today I had a craving, and since I listened to my craving yesterday and the results were “fruitful” (pun totally intended), I thought I’d do the same today.
Remember that tin of mix nuts I was grazing on the other day?
Maple Cinnamon Peanut Butter: (yields just over 1/2 cup)
1 cup roasted and salted peanuts
3 tablespoons maple syrup
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 tablespoon canola oil (without it, your peanut butter will not be creamy)
1. Process the peanuts in a food processor until smooth, occasionally scraping down the sides.
2. Once mixture is smooth, add syrup, cinnamon, and oil and process just to combine.
3. Enjoy!
I made a small batch due to the amount of nuts I had on hand, but feel free to double the recipe for more peanut butter lovin’!
Well, I’m off to take my peanut-butterful belly to bed! Hope you guys have a great rest of the night…oh, and Happy First Day of Spring! Yay! 🙂
What would your homemade peanut butter have in it?
Good evening loves! Hope you are all having a marvelous Sunday! I figured I’d post a little earlier than usual since I can already tell that it is going to be an early night for me!
First and foremost…Happy Pancake Sunday!
You know what makes today even more special? It is officially the last Pancake Sunday in the old kitchen…if all goes well, next week, I’ll be pancake flippin in my BRAND NEW HOUSE!
Ok, so I’m starting to get a little anxious, but who can blame me? You saw the size of that kitchen! Oh, how I wish I could invite all of you guys over! We’d have a pancake FEAST for sure!
Anywho! I had a huge craving for coconut this morning…must’ve been the tropical protein ice cream before bed last night…so I tore through searched the cabinets, did a little thinking, and whipped up some of these:
Coconut Pancakes with Raspberry Maple Sauce: (serves 1)
1. Combine flours and baking powder in a mixing bowl.
2. Combine chia egg, vanilla extract, and coconut milk in a separate bowl.
3. Mix wet and dry ingredients and then stir in shredded coconut.
4. Pour batter into greased non-stick skillet over medium heat and cook for about 6-7 minutes per side or until golden brown on both sides.
Raspberry Maple Sauce: (serves 2)
1/2 cup raspberries (fresh or frozen)
1/8 cup water
3 tablespoons pure maple syrup
1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum (to thicken)
Combine raspberries, water, and syrup and cook over medium-high heat until slightly thickened. Stir in gum and set aside (sauce will thicken even more).
Don’t you just want to stick your finger in that sauce?
After breakfast, I got to work on packing up the kitch, where I was quickly reminded that I have a borderline obsession with cute plates, bowls, and mugs…ahem, box #5!
The kitchen is now officially a mess packed and it looks like I only lack a few odds and ends around the house (I’m trying my best not to pack anything I need for the week). The only thing that’s left is the dreaded task of hauling things down from the attic…which is on the agenda after finishing this post…oy!
Along with packing, I also changed my oil, did 3 loads of laundry, and cleaned the kitchen…TWICE! Hence the reason for the break right now!
As soon as I finish tackling the attic, I think I’m going to chill for the rest of the night and maybe do a little baking…it’s been a while since I’ve treated the guys at work! Plus, it gives me an excuse to make Caitlin’s Gluten Free Pumpkin Coconut Cookies!
I hope you all have a great rest of the night! Ciao for now! 😉
Happy Saturday bloggies! Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
I planned to get a lot done in the packing department today, but instead I decided to have a spur of the moment garage sale! I’ve never actually hosted (threw?) a garage sale before…usually I figure that I’m just too impatient to wait around all day and end up toting it all to Goodwill, but today, I got a wild hair and decided “what the heck!”
So I set up “shop” around 11am!
And then I sat there…in my garage…for what seemed like forever until I got my first customer. She looked around a bit and asked about a tv I was trying to sell. I, being quite the saleslady (thank you years of retail experience) was able to get her to buy not only the TV, but also the large TV stand and I even “threw in” a cheapo DVD player! 😉
But wait…there’s more! After she hand me the luscious green slips for the above, she spotted something else…my old crock pot!
Sadly, this was my only sales victory for the day…as in I never even had another customer and called it quits around 3pm. I may try again tomorrow, but even if I decide not to, heck, I made 85 bucks!
I never actually had lunch or dinner today…and breakfast was not very photogenic (French toast with cinnamon/raisin Ezekiel bread covered in unsweetened coconut and 2 Applegate chicken sausages). Today was more of a snacky day…
I FINALLY broke down and made Evan’s peanut butter chocolate chip dessert hummus. Wow! I swear it tastes JUST like peanut butter cookie dough! Makes me not feel so bad about eating it straight up with a spoon…I mean… 😉
Open wide!
I call this my celebratory snack…
Eaten after I knocked the dust off my superb selling abilities!
Cinnamon Raisin Bagel Thin topped with goat cheese, cinnamon, chia seeds, and pecans.
I Loooooove goat cheese with cinnamon!
I’ve also been grazing on some mixed nuts throughout the day that were a gift to me for Christmas.
A mix of perfectly roasted and salted peanuts, cashews, pecans, Brazil nuts, almonds, and hazelnuts.
Wait a minute…do you see any pecans in there? Oh yeah…I picked those out months ago! Haha!
So, no exact meals by definition for the day, but still nutritious and delicious! Some days are just meant for snacking!
But wait…there’s more!
May I have a drum roll please?
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I accidentally made protein ice cream! 😀
Tropical Coconut Protein Ice Cream
1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk (carton, not can)
1/2 cup water
1 scoop vanilla protein powder
2 cups frozen tropical fruit (my mix is pineapple, mango, peaches, and steebies)
This started out as a protein smoothie, but I got a little heavy handed with the frozen fruit…oops! When I removed the top of my food processor, I discovered a creamy soft serve ice cream consistency so I popped it in the freezer for a bit to thicken up a little more and then enjoyed a bowl topped with unsweetened coconut, graham crackers, and freeze-dried steebies!
Yeah, so remember that ice cream/fro-yo maker I bought last month? Not so sure if I’ll be needing it now!
Have you ever made homemade ice cream?
What’s your favorite flavor? I usually prefer vanilla, but I loved the tropical taste of this…a little sweet and a little tart and a LOT perfect!
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Well, this is what I was left with today…
That’s just (pea)nuts!
Now they’re naked nuts! 😯
Now they’re in the food processor…muhahahaha!
Now they look like mushy couscous…
Now they have friends…
And now they look like perfection!
Hmm, what to do…what to do…what to do…
Told ya that rubber spatula comes in handy! 😉
