Homemade Peanut Butter

So as I was writing the last recipe I realized peanut butter is so easy to make at home just like applesauce! An everybody must have!

We started making our own when we lived in Oregon at whole foods or Fred Meyers. They had a section where you'd choose you nuts the put them through the machine with oil, and boom fresh peanut butter!

So I decided to start making my own from home once I was having a hard time finding true GF peanut butter I could eat. And it was amazing!! I used it for a GF peanut butter cookie that was just to die for! (I'll have to post that too!)


Ingredients
15 ounces shelled and roasted peanuts or of your choice. (I've used honey roasted which was good too!)

1 teaspoon kosher salt
1 1/2 teaspoons honey
1 1/2 tablespoons peanut oil or vegetable oil

Directions
Place the peanuts, salt and honey into the bowl of a food processor. Process for 1 minute. Scrape down the sides of the bowl. Place the lid back on and continue to process while slowly drizzling in the oil and process until the mixture is smooth, 1 1/2 to 2 minutes. Place the peanut butter in an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up to 2 months.

Yummm!! No junk added!

Homemade applesauce

I don't know if many people make this at home, but I do know they should! Applesauce is SOOO easy to make at home and tastes so delicious fresh. I started making mine when I began making all of the baby's food, but kept it up for all of us. It has nothing but apples, water and cinnamon in it. As good as it gets no junk or sugar added!

For a smaller batch I use 3-4 (for a bigger use 6-7) apples of choice. I love using Golden Delicious! Cut and dice up in smaller chunks, Add the dices and a finger tip width of water in a sauté pan. Sauté for about 15 minutes, add a dash or two of cinnamon while cooking and stir.

Pour sautéed apples and leftover water in food processor or blender and blend! You can pulsate for chunky or purée for smooth!

Presto! Yummy right???

GF buffalo chicken pizza

Yummm!! Buffalo chicken and purple onion pizza. Spicy and delicious!

Crust
-I made the pizza crust with Bob's Redmill Gluten Free Pizza dough mix. The package makes two 12' pizzas or one 18 inch pizza. I made it in an actual pizza pressure cooker type machine we just got! Only had to cook it once with all the toppings for 14 minutes.

Sauce
-1/3 cup Franks original redhot and 1/4 franks buffalo redhot

-Grill chicken, then sauté up in the Frank's sauce on the stove.

After making the crust, spread it out on the pizza maker (or oven pizza pan), add chicken and sauce, chopped purple onion, reduced fat mozzarella cheese (as much as you desire).Then cook for about 14 minutes.

*If your using a traditional oven refer to the back of the Redmill's bag :) You have to bake it without toppings for 7-8 minutes then again with topping for 18-25 minutes.

*NOTE: If you've never made GF pizza crust at home make sure when spreading it on the pan or pizza maker use water on a spatula to spread the crust. Or else it sticks like glue and is super difficult to work with. As you can tell I learned through trial and error ;)

This tasted better and more like "real" pizza crust then some places now serving GF pizza crust, which seems to be super fluffy and moist.