Good Morning! I hope you had a great weekend.  Today I am sharing a homemade peanut butter recipe.  I love trying out a new recipe for something I eat almost every day.  There is something to be said for homemade food.  No preservatives, additives or strange words you can’t pronounce.   Today I am sharing with you an easy way to make homemade peanut butter.  If you are like me you might have a slight love for peanut butter–in cookies, brownies, ice cream, oatmeal, for dipping celery and apples in, or that occasional spoonful of peanut butter as I walk by the pantry.

 

 

Homemade peanut butter is customizable based on what you like in a peanut butter.  Do you like that roasted flavor? Then buy roasted or honey roasted peanuts or even better roast them yourself.  Do you like chunky peanut butter? Instead of blending the peanuts into a smooth texture stop blending before it is moving freely through the blades of the processor (that is right before it will start to turn smooth).  Sweeter? Add a little sugar or honey.

 

 

The only required thing for this recipe is peanuts. Yes, only one ingredient!  When I made this recipe I was on the hunt for a bag of roasted, unsalted peanuts.  I couldn’t find them already shelled so I proceeded to buy the whole peanut and shell them myself. Easy? Not so much.  I must admit that while shelling 3 cups of peanuts my mind started thinking of the 1,000 things on my to do list. Moral of the story, unless you find shelling peanuts therapeutic (and some people might), hunt down a bag of already shelled peanuts. You can decide whether you want to buy salted or unsalted. If you do buy unsalted peanuts you will probably want to add some salt to taste, but you be the judge.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Julia