Home made peanut butter.

[safeinOhio]

Just made some for the first time in the blender. Easy, cheap and healthy. After reading the label on my store bought and seeing how much "natural" ones cost at the market, thought I'd give it a try on a rainy day. Did a search on the net for "blender peanut butter". Took about 15 minutes and most of that was cleaning out the blender. Taste great. Cost me about 2 bucks to make a pound.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good for you!

Be sure and refrigerate it pretty soon. That way, as you undoubtedly know, it won't ever separate.

[NRaleighLiberal]

2. That's now all we eat....here is how we make ours.

1 bag Trader Joe 50% less salt roasted peanuts (unsure of amt - 12 oz to 1 lb)
2-3 tbsp canola oil
3-4 tbsp dark molasses
2-3 tbsp honey

add all into a food processor with the chopper blade - blend, scrape down, blend, scrape down, etc until the appropriate smoothness (or on our case, chunkiness). With less oil, it is stiffer and doesn't separate - we store ours in our food cupboard; in the fridge it gets too crumbly.

any of the above can be increased or decreased for desired sweetness, smoothness or spreadability.

[safeinOhio]

3. I used a pound of

caned peanuts. blender for about 3 or 4 minutes. Stirred in a T spoon and a half of canola oil and a small amount of brown sugar.
The 2 closest Trader Joes are 100 miles away.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. try using molasses and/or honey in place of, or in addition to the brown sugar - adds complexity

and richness.

[gejohnston]

5. I can live off the stuff

Come to think of it, I have at times. Thanks for the recipe.

[BlueToTheBone]

6. I like to start with raw peanuts

and give them a salt water bath, roast them on 325 convection until the right color. Then I run them through the food processor with a tad more salt and rice bran oil. I never have to refrigerate because I live with the peanut buddha and it only lasts a few days at the most.

[laundry_queen]

7. I'm going to have to try this

we've been going through large amounts of peanut butter lately since my older girls can take peanuts to their schools (it's more relaxed in high school with the nut rules) and my oldest loves the natural stuff that is very pricey and I don't always buy it for her because of that. I have the proper blender to do this (good ol'vitamix) but I'm not sure if it will be worth it depending on how cheap I can find some peanuts...we'll see! I'll check it out on my next trip for groceries.

[IrishAyes]

8. There's nowhere here to buy bulk shelled peanuts

But I plan to grow the giant, heirloom African kind this spring. The plants are beautiful too.