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[Ozymandias]

I completely agree!!

[Lupercal]

MAKING THINGS IN YOUR KITCHEN RULES

Especially makin' loooove

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8Et_771LF8

I'm due home next weekend so I will definitely escape exam revision by making muffins. This is a pretty rad thread. Needs more lemon & poppyseed, motherfuckers.

[allison]

This is now a cooking thread. Jon and I made things in the kitchen!

We made a pork loin with fresh sage and garlic!


To go with it we had braised endive (in an orange vinaigrette), sauteed red pepper (mostly for colour), and fingerling potatoes roasted with rosemary and thyme.


For dessert, apple-blackberry pie!

[David_Dovey]

We have a cooking thread already, sillyface

[allison]

this one was convenient

[tania]

dude the cooking thread is like not even that far away, i can see it from here

[Lines]

This is a baking things in a muffin/cupcake pan thread, not a cooking things in whatever kind of pan you like thread. JEEZE.

[Lines]

But that does look delicious.

[bainidhe_dub]

It's okay, Sir Juggles balanced it out by putting cookies in the Cooking Thread. Gawd, what were you all thinking?

[David_Dovey]

Cookies Are Not Muffins Either!

[SirJuggles]

Yeah guys had to remind some people what that thread was for.

[Slick]

OK so I took the recipe, swapped half a cup of flour for the cup of ground almonds & cocoa powder mixture left over from another project, then creamed butter, sugar, peanut butter, and a little flour together, which got piped in spirals on top of the muffin batter and streaked for the topping effect.


The peanut streaking filling was a little stiff, so next time I'll reduce or scrap the flour. Taste is spot on.

[Lupercal]

You Americans put peanut butter in EVERYTHING.

why doesn't everyone do this?

I'm still waiting for the UK to bring in peanut butter M&Ms, I brought home as much as I could from the M&M World in Times Square but there were never going to be enough...

These all look fantastic.

[Slick]

hey, canadian, dog
 

[Lines]

North America is the land of peanut butter. I wouldn't move to a place without peanut butter.

[Lunchbox]

I put peanut butter in everything as well. However my boyfriend and I disagree on the most important issue: creamy v crunchy. (I am creamy all the way.) I used two huge spoonfuls of PB in some buttercream I made yesterday to top chocolate cupcakes and it was the easiest, smoothest, thickest icing I have ever worked with. So beautiful.
No pictures because I have no internet at home right now.

[imagist42]

honestly creamy and crunchy are both pretty great, everything to do with nuts and nutty butters of all varieties is awesome and to everything a time and a place really

creamy is definitely better for everyday uses though

[imagist42]

that was my complete intention from the start

[allison]

(in my defense, this was at the top of the page when i posted, someone posted a while after in the cooking thread which brought it to the top, that is why i said "convenience")

[calenlass]

I love creamy peanut butter. It is absolutely one of my favourite things, although I can't stand peanuts or any other nuts. My theory on this is that you can make a homogenous mixture with the nut butters, but you can't sweeten the actual nut, you can only coat the surface.

Or I could just be a lesbian.

[Lupercal]

I'd subscribe to both theories myself.

Naww but its all about crunchy peanut butter. Like pulp in orange juice, you need a bit of extra texture in there to remind you that you're eating something that comes from something else. Texture, solids....its all good. Smooth peanut butter just seems one of those weird things to me. Yeah, brown paste! I like my brown paste with lumps.

Or I could just be a lesbiman.

[Lines]

Chunky food, ok fine whatever, chunky juice, I'll pass. Smooth > chunky.

[McTaggart]

Peanut butter gives me the runs and it suuuuucks. At least it doesn't kill me, I guess.

[bainidhe_dub]

When my sister was little she was a very picky eater, so Mom would give her a spoonfull of peanut butter with dinner so she'd have some protein in her diet. That said, I've decided I like chunky peanut butter for sandwiches - it just give you something else so enjoy, along with the glory of a pb&j.

[Boro_Bandito]

I can't take peanut butter by itself creamy or crunchy, but then to be fair I don't really like nuts at all unless its pecans. There was a pecan tree down the street from my house as a kid, and the little old lady who lived there would ask for help in picking them and so I got to have all the pecans I could stand, and I only like them because I liked her.

In things peanut butter is awesome, but by itself it just sticks all to the roof of yer mouth n' shit and I hate overly dry foods, I remember when I was 8 my mom packed me a sunflower butter(the stickiest and least pliable of all damn nut butters) sandwich on whole wheat bread and I remember crying at school because I literally couldn't eat it because it was so dry.

[calenlass]

aw, dang, dude, you are not eating the right peanut butter

also what a way to scar your kid, jesus, like i don't even know what sunflower butter is, but ick

[Boro_Bandito]

is Jiffy or Peter Pan not the right peanut butter? I dunno, I think the problem is mostly with me, not the peanut butter, but I just can't take it very often yo.

[imagist42]

You have to go for the stuff that is 100% natural peanut butter. Like, you look at the ingredients and the only things in the list are peanuts and probably some salt. No oil, no preservatives, none of that shit.

[celticgeek]

Laura Scudders, for the win.

[JD]

You have to go for the stuff that is 100% natural peanut butter. Like, you look at the ingredients and the only things in the list are peanuts and probably some salt. No oil, no preservatives, none of that shit.

It's possible to get peanut butter without oil?

[JD]

I mean all the organic peanut butter we try and get always has oil in it and it separates constantly so it's really gross.

[bainidhe_dub]

That's probably just the natural peanut oils, even if there's not any other kinds added.

[imagist42]

Oh yeah, natural peanut butter has oil from the peanuts themselves. But most big commercial brands will add in other oils and sugars and shit to make it taste "richer" (in that sick artificial way) and help it maintain consistency. If it separates, that's a good sign.

Of course, you can always let it separate at the start and pour the oil off the top when you first open it. My dad does this to eliminate most of the fat content. Also, if you keep it in the fridge after opening and stirring the oil in it usually won't separate again.

[Lines]

Yeah, one of my friends/ex-studio mate would bring in natural peanut butter to our studio and she'd pour all the oil off. Stuff was so delicious.

[calenlass]

I... actually prefer Jiff. I like molasses in my peanut butter.

[Boro_Bandito]

Yeah I'm not gonna lie my mom buys the natural peanut butter too and I tried it once just to see if it would help and no oh my god its still kinda horrific and I think maybe unless I'm just in a strange mood or something I almost never can eat peanut butter.

[imagist42]

There isn't anything wrong with that?

[Edith]

I've never liked peanut butter either. I can eat it in a sandwich with a LOT of honey, and preferably with some bananas and raisins as well, but I would rather eat just about anything else. Almond butter is my favorite of the nut butters, and it's not something I want more than once a year or so.

[David_Dovey]

Won't eat peanut butter out of a jar but I am literally addicted to Reeses Cups

[Boro_Bandito]

Yeah in candy its different, they add loads of sugar to the peanut butter in Reeses cups, and that plus the chocolate helps it all balance out a lot differently.

Anyone ever heard of Jelly and cheese sandwiches? My dad would make those for himself sometimes where he would just straight up put big hunks of cheddar on a sandwich with jelly and eat it that way. Hmm, I wonder if my dad has gotten his cholesterol checked lately... I mean this is the guy who I once got up to get a drink of water one night and he was standing at the refrigerator, taking a bite out of a stick of butter. (he's in great shape and he's always been the thinnest person in the family but like his average lunch is a can of soda and a bag of m&ms)

[Eris]

My mum taught my about jam and cheese sandwiches when I was younger. Apricot jam and cheese is my favourite combination, but the cheese has to be fairly thin slices, rather than big hinks of the stuff. It's also nice on toast, when the cheese mlts just a little bit.  Everyone I have told bout jam and cheese sandwiches looked at me like I was a fucking nutter.

Also, on the peanut butter (and cooking) front, I made peanut butter pancakes today, and that was the first time I really exerienced the whole sticking to the roof of your mouth feeling and it is really disconcerting! The pancakes were nice enough, and putting butter or maple syrup on them helped, but I needed to ahve a drink to help with the stickiness.

[Lunchbox]

I LOVE peanut butter, last week I made these chocolate cupcakes with peanut butter frosting



Today I made peanut butter pancakes from this recipe

[imagist42]

Lunchy's lunchin',