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Super Easy Triple Fusion Snack

Gypsy Jan - 9-12-2009 at 03:00 PM

So, the Comercial Mexicana only had Skippy Reduced Fat Peanut Butter.

After tasting when we got home, the vote was in....yuck, too sweet. I thought about throwing the jar into the trash.

Then I remembered reading various Thai/Chinese recipes that combine peanuts with sweet/savoury/spicy flavors.

So, this Krazy Kitchen Khemist started experimenting.

Mix peanut butter with as many drops of Castilla Habanera Salsa as your palate can take and stir in a spoonful of a good Japanese Shoyu (naturally brewed soy sauce).

Spread on celery (my preference, and it lowers your blood pressure naturally) or on a cracker, chip or other platform of your choice.

Wowzy!

DianaT - 9-12-2009 at 03:06 PM

Sounds interesting---
I have always like peanut butter on celery, but this sounds real different---wonder if it will work well with natural peanut butter.

Thanks

Natural Peanut Butter Should Work Well

Gypsy Jan - 9-12-2009 at 03:11 PM

If not even better.

Taste and adjust, but remember to add in the sweet.

I was trying to balance out an overly sugary commercial product and this particular experiment was a success.

Barry A. - 9-12-2009 at 03:12 PM

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Originally posted by jdtrotter
Sounds interesting---
I have always like peanut butter on celery, but this sounds real different---wonder if it will work well with natural peanut butter.

Thanks


"Natural" peanut butter"??????? There are artificial peanut butters out there????? :lol: :o :?:

DianaT - 9-12-2009 at 03:23 PM

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Originally posted by Barry A.
Quote:
Originally posted by jdtrotter
Sounds interesting---
I have always like peanut butter on celery, but this sounds real different---wonder if it will work well with natural peanut butter.

Thanks


"Natural" peanut butter"??????? There are artificial peanut butters out there????? :lol: :o :?:


Natural peanut butters do not have any of those six syllable ingredients that no one can pronounce and no can has a clue as to what they are, and I am not sure they use real peanuts. :lol:

Natural peanut butters need to be in the refrig to keep from spoiling, unlike Skippy. Had a jar of skippy once in a hot garage for over two years---used it for mouse traps. After two years, no mold and the mice still liked it. :barf:

Thanks Jan, I will remember to add something sweet---sounds like a fun experiment.

Diane

[Edited on 9-12-2009 by jdtrotter]

Barry A. - 9-12-2009 at 03:51 PM

Ok, Diane, and thanks. After making my silly statement, I went to our cubbard and discovered that our ADAM'S peanut butter says it's "100% natural" (now I really DO feel foolish)---------I just had never payed attention, I guess.

But I know that wife Meredith never keeps in in the refridg. and it never seems to spoil-------so apparently "natural" peanut butters don't need to be kept cool either????? even after opening????

At least that is our experience.

I am going to try the idea that Gypsy Jan put forth----sounds good.

Barry

Natural Food

Gypsy Jan - 9-12-2009 at 04:17 PM

Food is grown and if left in a fresh state, goes back to fertilizer very quickly.

Packaged foods, i.e., Skippy Peanut Butter, are designed/manipulated to last without refrigeration.

Good or bad, according to whatever your political stance - if there is no refrigeration, which is not available to most of the world, then people develop methods for food preservation, think salting and hanging, salting and smoking, salting and vinegar, adding preservatives of all kinds, etc., etc.

Skippy peanut butter is what is conveniently available and reasonably priced in our local market.

I had fun working with a so-so ingredient and making it into a tasty snack.

Barry A. - 9-12-2009 at 06:17 PM

Even tho both Meredith and I apparently have cast-iron stomachs (never have had "tourista") I believe that after reading this I will put my natural peanut butter in the fridge from now on. Meredith agrees-----:yes:

Thanks folks.

Barry

DianaT - 9-12-2009 at 06:32 PM

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Originally posted by Barry A.
Even tho both Meredith and I apparently have cast-iron stomachs (never have had "tourista") I believe that after reading this I will put my natural peanut butter in the fridge from now on. Meredith agrees-----:yes:

Thanks folks.

Barry


Have not bought Adams for a long time, but the Laura Schudder brand does say to refrigerate. However, there is a new twist. They and others have come up with a pre-mixed kind, the one that you don't have to slop oil all over to the kitchen in order to stir up. Bingo, does not call for the refrigerator, and they are sneaky----a couple of those unidentifiable ingredients have been added. :lol::lol:

Before you put it away, did you try the new recipe?

Barry A. - 9-12-2009 at 10:12 PM

-----gotta get some celery, first.

Ours is the oily type, that you have to stir and stir and stir---------------yummy stuff, tho!!

Barry

capt. mike - 9-13-2009 at 08:58 AM

loose oil floating topside means unsaturated fat. the OK kind.
stir and refer it or it will sep again. i love the crunchy kind.

can't wait to try this one - i love use of peanuts in oriental dishes.

Jan - no ratios given so guess i'll have to be an alchemist!

how about adding wasabi or hot mustard?? like Kolmans?

Natalie Ann - 9-13-2009 at 09:22 AM

Even after all that oil is stirred into the natural peanut butter and all is refrigerated, still I warn you against taking it to any outdoor gathering. I did it once - stuffed celery with that all-natural Laura Scudder brand Diane mentioned. Within 10 minutes of putting the serving dish on the table all the oil separated and ran out of the celery, leaving a real peanut mess. Not a pretty sight, big friggin' mess to clean up.:no::barf:

nena

DENNIS - 9-13-2009 at 10:34 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
loose oil floating topside means unsaturated fat. the OK kind.
stir and refer it or it will sep again. i love the crunchy kind.



I buy Laura Scudders natural PB with the layer of oil at the top. It's a mess sometimes to mix the oil in with the solids so I bought one of these. It works perfectly. The only improvement I'm contemplating is adapting it to my electric drill.
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http://witmerproducts.com/pbutter.html

capt. mike - 9-13-2009 at 11:26 AM

wow....who thinks up this stuff??
Billy Mays. :lol:

DENNIS - 9-13-2009 at 11:39 AM

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Originally posted by capt. mike
Billy Mays. :lol:


"Dead Man Yelling."

I Tried It

DianaT - 9-13-2009 at 02:22 PM

Well, a couple of adjustments according to what I had in the house

Crunchy Laura Scudder Natural Peanut Butter

Didn't have the Habanera sauce, so used Trader Joes Jalapeno Sauce

Regular soy sauce

And as Jan suggested, a little sugar---well actually, some of those chemicals known as Splenda and pretend to be sugar.

Put it on a couple of celery sticks and ate them before I risked having one of Nena's oil separating disasters. :lol:

VERY GOOD Thank you Jan for the sharing this idea:yes::yes: -great snack.

Dennis, I saw that thing advertised and wondered if it worked. It seems like no matter what I use to stir up the peanut butter, the oil slops out all over everything and at the bottom of the jar there is that last little bit of peanut butter that is more like cement.

Thanks

Diane

[Edited on 9-13-2009 by jdtrotter]

DENNIS - 9-13-2009 at 03:18 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by jdtrotter
Dennis, I saw that thing advertised and wondered if it worked. It seems like no matter what I use to stir up the peanut butter, the oil slops out all over everything and at the bottom of the jar there is that last little bit of peanut butter that is more like cement.



It works, Diane. The lid screws to the jar and nothing escapes. Get one. You'll love it.


Now...Check out this little beauty. Mine's in the mail.

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Natlie Ann and Diane

Gypsy Jan - 9-13-2009 at 05:04 PM

Here is a link to an eHow article about mixing in oil that rises to the top with peanut butter. I hope that this will help.
http://www.ehow.com/how_5327652_mix-jar-natural-peanut-butte...