March 14, 2008Peanut month recipe...and a free cookbook!
It's that time again, folks -- time to give away a free cookbook to one lucky blog reader! Everything Peanut Squares 2 cups (12 oz.) milk chocolate chips 1. Lightly grease a 9 x 13- inch baking pan with butter or cooking spray. Heat the chocolate chips and peanut butter chips in a heavy saucepan over very low heat, stirring constantly until the chips are almost melted. Do not overheat. Remove from the heat and stir until smooth. Spread half the mixture evenly in the bottom of the pan. Let stand at room temperature until firm, about 30 minutes. 2. Heat the sugar, butter and milk in a heavy saucepan over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until boiling. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring frequently. Spread the mixture evenly over the chip layer. Sprinkle with 1/4 cup of the peanuts. 3. Heat the peanut butter in a small, heavy saucepan over very low heat, stirring constantly until melted. Remove from the heat. Stir in the marshmallow creme and the vanilla until smooth. Spoon the mixture evenly over the peanuts, then top with the remaining 3/4 cup of peanuts. 4. Combine the caramels and 2 Tbsp. plus 1 tsp. of water in a heavy saucepan over very low heat and stir until smooth. Spread evenly over the peanuts. Spread the remaining half of the chip mixture (reheat if necessary over very low heat, stirring until spreadable) evenly over the caramel. Chill in the pan until firm, at least 45 minutes, then cut into 2 1/2 by 2 1/4- inch squares. Source: The Only Bake Sale Cookbook You'll Ever Need by Laurie Goldrich Wolf and Pam Abrams. |
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[March 14, 2008 5:59 PM]
Amy Hanek : →http://www.houseonthegladehill.blogspot.comPad Thai at the Edible Vibe in Rocky Mount.
Have you ever been there?
They have a menu now.
After glancing over the well-blended mix of healthy - yet satisfying lunch entrees - I decided on the Pad Thai.
I knew it was made with peanuts and whole wheat pasta, I didn't know a non-Thai-type restaurant could offer such an authentic Thai meal for lunch.
As you may remember, peanuts are one of the main ingredients in Pad Thai (noodles being the other). There were not only hundreds of peanuts wrapped in noodles, but a peanut sauce too. I felt like I had encountered a peanut butter sandwich, delivered from Thailand.
[March 15, 2008 11:16 AM]
Erika HensonTwo words: boiled peanuts.
I know that it is a foreign concept in Virginia, but I lived in Georgia for 6 years. At first the texture was troublesome to me but, after overcoming that, I fell in love with boiled peanuts. There is something so American about watching a baseball or football game while sucking on the hull and then breaking it open to get the warm peanuts.
If you haven't tried them, you definitely should!!
[March 15, 2008 4:08 PM]
MarionLet me share with you my favorite grandkid candy recipe for munching in front of the TV.
TOFFEE SPLINTERS 11 & 1/4 graham cracker pieces 1/2 cup butter or margarine 3/4 cup packed brown sugar 1/4 cup peanuts 6-oz pkg semi-sweet choc chips
(1)Butter bottom of 12x7 glass dish, place graham crackers on bottom of dish. Set aside. (2)Combine butter and brown sugar in 4-cup glass measure. Microwave for 2 minutes at 70% power. Stir in nuts. (3) Pour over graham crackers, then microwave for 4 minutes on 70% of power. (4) Top with chocolate pieces and microwave for 1.5 minutes on 70% of power. Spread chocolate evenly over top and chill in fridge. Cut into 24 bars or break into pieces.
I promise you will not believe how this "changes up" into caramelly-chocolate-peanut candy.
[March 15, 2008 4:55 PM]
DebbieI have a soft spot for peanut butter cookies, because they are the first dessert I ever made. I was 9 years old, and I still remember the thrill of pressing them down with a fork. The end result was wonderful also.
[March 16, 2008 4:20 PM]
Kim BowyerMy most favorite experience with peanuts (peanut butter) is every Christmas I have my family over (while the men shop) and we make every kind of candy under the sun. My neice is the culprit when it comes to the peanut butter. The first year I taught her to make peanut butter balls I found peanut butter on the door knobs, the banister, and anywhere else the child had ventured out to from the kitchen. She was twelve then and now at the ripe old age of eighteen she enjoys coming over every holiday and giving the younger ones a lesson on what not to leave for Auntie when they are finished making peanut butter balls.
[March 17, 2008 9:41 AM]
RebeccaMy best 'peanut-related food experience' would be Every Day With My Dad! My dad was a peanut addict! His favorite food was anything with peanuts or peanut butter. (I even got him to love Thai food because of the peanuts)He always had a can of Virginia Diner peanuts by his 'chair' and ended every day of his life with saltines and peanut butter. I always told my husband and kids that I would never worry about dad's health as long as he was still eating peanut butter and saltines before bedtime. Dad died in July of 2005 after a four month battle with stomach cancer. He ate those saltines and peanut butter until just a week before his death! Dad was a Baptist preacher who said even though it wasn't biblical, he knew that the streets of heaven were paved with peanuts, not gold.
[March 17, 2008 11:10 AM]
Lindsey Nair : →http://blogs.roanoke.com/fridgemagnet/I'm loving these peanut stories so far, y'all. Erika, I absolutely love boiled peanuts. My friend, Mike, brings us a bunch from North Carolina every summer and we sit on the beach and eat them. The saltiness reminds me of the ocean. Rebecca, your dad sounds like a man after my own father's heart. Except one of my dad's favorite bedtime snacks is apples with peanut butter.
[March 19, 2008 3:00 PM]
DennisI love peanuts and peanut butter! There is always a can of VA Diner "gourmet salted VA peanuts" sitting on my desk! My wife practically lives on peanut butter. She eats "half" of a peanut butter sandwich almost every day for breakfast, and many days has the same for lunch. My favorite peanut butter sandwich growing up was peanut butter and (dill) pickle! It sounds awful, I know, but it's wonderful! We had a good family friend, who lived in FL and who just loved boiled peanuts! He would stop regularly at a little roadside stand and buy them. I must confess to being narrow minded and I wouldn't try them. He has since passed, but I never hear boiled peanuts mentioned that I don't think of him.
[March 19, 2008 4:02 PM]
DebTake your favorite peanut butter cookie recipe and add 1/2 cup chopped salted peanuts, 1/2 cup chopped walnuts, and 1/2 cup chopped pecans. Peanut lovers can't keep their hands off these!
[March 19, 2008 5:01 PM]
Katie ThisdellPeanut butter dip and broccoli:
I found the recipe a couple weeks ago in one of my mom's magazines. I don't have it with me right now, but it's got a great combination of Asian flavors, with soy sauce and also some crushed red pepper to kick it up. You mix everything with about 1 cup peanut butter and 1 cup hot water, which smoothes it out. Then you eat it with blanched broccoli spears, and anything else--like carrots, red pepper strips, or sugar snap peas. Sounds like an interesting combination, but it's my newest favorite food. THe dip is also great to mix with the veggies chopped and pasta.
[April 2, 2008 4:37 PM]
Nancy MunseyWhen I was in college I had as my roommate, Regina. Regina had this ritual of making at 12:00 midnight these wonderful marshmallow cream, peanut butter sandwiches. So here we were an English major and an Elementary School Major typing away at 12:30 a.m. on term papers while eating those wonderful "gooey" peanut butter, marshmallow cream sandwiches. Makes me hungry!! Oh, that was in 1970!
[April 2, 2008 5:49 PM]
Lindsey : →http://blogs.roanoke.com/fridgemagnet/Nancy, some people call those fluffernutters. I love that name. They serve fluffernutters at Pop's Ice Cream & Soda Bar on Memorial Ave. in Roanoke, which we have coincidentally been talking about on the grilled cheese post. The owner of Pop's says the school kids pile in after school and order fluffernutters as snacks!