Home Made Maple Peanut Butter
Lately I have been obsessed with Strawberry Salads. I go through salad phases. Sometimes I despise them and sometimes I love them. Weird. Lately, I’m loving the strawberry, spinach, and feta with raspberry dressing.
My packed lunch.
One of my new favorite dressings is Newman’s Own Light Raspberry & Walnut. So tasty.
So fresh!
Love strawberries.
Since today was a “rest/cross training” day, I had some spare time when I got home from work. I wanted to get creative in the kitchen!
I’ve had maple peanut butter on my mind. And since I ran out of my favorite kind by Saratoga Peanut Butter, I decided to try to make my own! I searched around and used a combination of Ashley’s recipes for her various nut butters.
I started with peanuts.
And threw them in my cheap $30 mini food processor.
Added some sea salt, and some home made maple syrup (made by my neighbor from his maple trees!)
I also threw in some grapeseed oil, since it wasn’t getting very creamy and I was afraid my food processor was going to blow up. (It started smoking! ahhh!)
After processing for 15+ minutes, my peanut butter looked like this.
Strange?
It tasted REALLY good. Very sweet and maple-y. ๐
I guesstimated the amount of maple syrup and oil in it…not sure if its right though! I need to try it again to make sure.
After all that hard work, I was hungrryyy. Time for some more flatbread pizza! This time with some mexican flair. All I did was add Amy’s black bean and corn salsa to the top. ๐
Now with salsa.
Yum! It had a nice amount of spice and great flavor.
Anywho….my workout for today consisted of some Yoga Meldown, to get my blood pumping, and some foam rolling.
That is all. ๐
6 Comments
Lizzy @ LBBakes
Mmmm, I wanna make my own peanut butter!!
Cynthia (It All Changes)
Careful with the mini prep. If you love making your own nut butter invest in a full sized.
BTW that looks great!
Katie H.
Um. Please bring this to the next meetup. Pretty please? ๐
Abby
I love this post! So many awesome foods. And how lucky to live next to someone who taps his own syrup?!
Jen
thanks! i’m lucky–he also has his own chickens, so i get my own farm fresh eggs, and i can go visit the chickens whenever i want! ๐
Alisa
Yum!This looks so delicious.I love making my own peanut butter but haven’t tried adding maple syrup. I need to make this soon.I saw your blog from the foodie blog roll and I like what you have here.if you won’t mind I’d love to guide Foodista readers to this post.Just add the peanut butter widget to the end of this post and it’s all set, Thanks!