Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Peanut Butter Success!

As I mentioned in my last post, today Zara and I planned to make peanut butter from scratch using a recipe that she can follow.
What you'll need;

whole unshelled peanuts
Vegetable oil
Honey
Mortar and pestle
Small mixer like a cuisinart

I shelled the peanuts into the mortar and pestle and my daughter crushed them. We then dumped them into the cuisinart, added 2 tabl of oil and 2 tabl of honey. Blend and serve. It is delicious, and might be this year's Christmas presents. She lived being involved with each step of the process and we talked about how peanuts grow.

Monday, October 29, 2012

Halloween and Blogging Fail

My goal was relatively lofty. To blog everyday and have a new recipe to share everyday from my daughter's second birthday until her third. Not surprisingly it didn't happen. Was it that sometimes cooking with a two year old leaves taking beautiful pictures to the wayside? Sometimes. Was it laziness? A little bit. Was it procrastination? Absolutely. For some reason, I could NOT get myself to get to the computer to sit down and blog daily. I had the time. I just didn't do it. So, onto more realistic expectations on my part. I'm going to blog. About food. It's going to be about cooking with kids (or how to involve your kids when you're cooking and making it more fun for them). I'm going to include pictures because I'm actually going to take them instead of talking about it. I'm going to link more. To things I write about, places I mention, projects that I talk about, etc. I'm going to try to make this blog easier for YOU, and me, at the same time. I'll thank me later I'm sure.

On that note I'll wish all of you a Happy Halloween and if you are on the east coast, good luck getting through Sandy. While I'm in the Cape Cod area and it hasn't been all that bad as of yet (and I'm thinking we've already had the bad wind), I know Jersey and New York is getting slammed. Good luck folks.

Tomorrow Zara and I will be making homemade peanut butter. We're both hoping it'll be a beautiful beginning to Christmas presents. We'll see. I'm sure it'll be a lot of fun.