HOME MADE CRUNCHY PEANUT BUTTER

Home Made Crunchy Peanut Butter.

by Bess & Pete

Pour the peanuts into the jar size you desire.

Sprinkle nuts onto a baking tray and roast on 150c for about 10 minutes.

Once brown (not too brown) cool and place the nuts in a food grinder or whizz.

Add a dash of peanut or cronola oil; a teaspoon of sugar and a dash of salt

to your taste. Grind the mixture to the texture you like i.e. smooth or nutty.

Place into your sterilized jar.

( Dad grew peanuts in the vegetable patch. They are of the potato family.)

cost about $1.50 for a medium jar.

Celery Nibbles

Wash celery stalks and fill with peanut butter or creme cheese.

You may slice in to one inch pieces and arrange on a plate for Party nibbles

Or just on one stalk to munch on in front of TV.

Pumpkin Dip or as a side Vegetable dish

Peel and cube 1/2 of any of the pumpkin family.

Cook in a little water. Then drain. Place in a bowl and

mash with a handful of fresh Coriander leaves,

1 teaspoon of garlic granules; 1 teaspoon of cumin and

a cube of butter.

Put into a dish and sprinkle with chopped nuts.

Serve with chips or croutons.

Minted Hummus Dip.

Drain one tin of chick peas. (or a cup of dried chick peas soaked over night)

take one crushed glove of garlic; 2tsp mint jelly; a handful of fresh Basil leaves.

Place all ingredients into a kitchen whizz and add a dash of oil till mixture becomes creamy and smooth. Decorate with mint leaves and serve with potato chips or thin slices of raw celery or carrot.

Fresh Foda Foodz & tips for better living by Bess & Pete

Fresh Foda Foodz

& tips for better living.

by Bess & Pete.

This is a web site for busy people, who do not have the time to spend in the kitchen.

For house husbands; working mums and anyone who is flatting. There is no need to impress your friends (true friends any way) They should be there for your pleasant company and good conversation and in no fear of having to compete with you in culinary skills.

There are no basic measurements. It's all for your own taste buds. The way the elderly Mediterranean women; my mum; grandmothers and great aunts made a meal. They lived well into their 90's, not like this stressed generation.

No supermarket or Deli fancy ingredients. It is all straight from your garden or pantry.

There is no running down to the shops to buy some ingredients you can't pronounce. This consists of just the plain basics that mums used in the 40's and 50's. Good wholesome food. Homemade jam; a larder full of bottled fruit made from our own trees or abundance of fruit and vegetables handed around the neighbour-hood.

In those days there was just the corner store; the green grocer; the fish monger and the Freezing Works or local butcher. Life was easier. It was tough and penny pinching. Our fast foods was bought at the Pea, Pie and Pud van or Fish n' Chips.

A snack after school was, who collected the bread from the store and ate the fluffy inside of the Barracuda loaf on the way home, much to mum's fury.

A slice of bread and butter smothered with home made Peanut Butter. Yum!

We have an organic garden. I only spray my Roses after pruning as the Praying Mantis; Lady Birds etc soon take wing.

I have a worm farm and that is as good as any fertilizer. The garden has geraniums; Nasturtiums; Marigolds and Herbs growing as good companions. Coffee grinds ward off the snails. ( Chooks fight over them).

We clean with Baking Powder and Vinegar. Remember your Nursery Rhymes "Jack and Jill."

Our gardens and fields are full of wild herbs and edible plants. We will gather them along the way and make delicious salads.

There is an American Indian saying, " Give back to Mother Earth and she will give back to you in abundance."