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Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Food. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Peanut Butter Panic

It's a well documented fact that I love peanut butter. Too much. I would eat it with just about anything if it had the possibility of tasting good, and as a result of my obsession I've decided to blog about my peanut butter adventures.  So without further ado, we will begin blogging peanut butter.

FIRST MEAL:
Today I tried something I'd seen on the internet before and had been wanting to try for a while; the peanut butter and banana quesodilla. I got out my frying pan, butter, tortilla, banana and peanut butter and got to work on this masterpiece.  I liberally slather peanut butter on anything and everything, completely ignoring the recommended serving size and basically just using peanut butter until I think there's enough.  I was feeling especially creative so I threw a few raisins in that tortilla and popped it on the stove.  Unfortunately this is where the problems started.

Peanut butter melts SO FAST. Even in it's room temperature state it's liquidy and goopy, so add a few extra degree's and you've got peanut butter melting all over the frying pan.  Hastily I turned the tortilla over and peanut butter would spray the pan, burning everywhere. Luckily I was able to keep most of the peanut butter in the tortilla and, by some divine skill, managed to keep the tortilla intact long enough for it to turn a nice golden color. At that point I started eating.

First off, I don't recommend the raisins. A part of me forgot I put them in the quesodilla, so when I took my first bite and it tasted a bit tough and gummy, it was an unwelcome surprise to my mouth and a sensory overload.  Other than that the sandwich itself was pretty good, but the tortilla didn't taste like something that was meant to be stuffed with sweet treats. By the end of the meal I was relatively satisfied, but my hands were covered in melted peanut butter mess because of well, the whole melted peanut butter thing. Probably won't do this again soon, it gave me a peanut butter heart attack.

Yay stay tuned!

Friday, November 26, 2010

Back again...10 pounds heavier

After a much needed, and deserved break from my daily blogging, I'm back to highlight a few things about Thanksgiving that we are are hopefully familiar with. We all know that family bonding comes with the holiday, but what are the pros and cons of this most sacred of eating days?
Pro's:
  1. Seeing cousins, catching up
  2. Good food
  3. Getting off school for a max. of 5 days
  4. Sleeping in, staying up late NOT doing homework
  5. College kids come home!
  6. Movies are on all the time (Back to the Future, for ex.)
  7. For some, Black Friday discounts
  8. being THAT much closer to Christmas (less than a month now!)

Cons:

  1. The drunk and disorderly aunts and uncles
  2. Having to clean your ENTIRE HOUSE for your guests
  3. Eating too much food and feeling physically ill for days afterward
  4. Having crippling amounts of homework you save till Sunday night
  5. Relatives talking politics, economics, and (gulp) your future. All the while managing to say something offensive or racist
  6. Cleaning up the thousands of plates after the meal
  7. Still being a month away from Christmas
  8. Exams are right around the corner...

So as you can see, the scales are realtively balanced, with enough good and bad going around to tide you over until Christmas. Given, this is a slightly bias perspective based on my own crazy family but hey, I assume we're all relatively similar in our grievances right? If not, leave a comment and say what you love or hate about the day of thanks.