Homemade Peanut Butter...and TSwift

I might very well be the only person who wasn't excited last Tuesday.

You know.  The "OH-em-GEE!  TSwift's album is dropping todaaaaayyyy!" day.

It's called RED, by the way.  But I'm guessing that if you own a t.v., a Facebook page, or a radio, you already know this.

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I don't have a problem with TSwift, per say.  She presents herself very well and is quite articulate about the fact that she uses every relationship she's ever had as a song-writing opportunity.  I've always wondered how many songs she gets out of each relationship.  Like, what's the ratio?  You know, I had quite a few crappy relationships too.  If only I could write about them so unabashedly.  People would probably just be like, "Get over yourself".  Why doesn't anyone say this to her?  This article from Thought Catalog articulates my thoughts pretty well.

Plus, she goes after a douche-canoe like John Mayer and expects to change him?  Uh, no.  Better women, like Jennifer Aniston, have tried that already.  That was a lesson to all of us:  If Rachel-freaking-Green can't change a man, neither can you.

Anyway.  I'm just picking on her.  I don't like Carrie either.  For entirely different reasons.

What have I been listening to?

Night Train, my friends.

Jason Aldean.  The country singer...who raps about Joe Diffie.

Anywho.  I got it in my head to make homemade almond butter last week.

I went to Fred Meyer only to discover that they were pretty much out of almonds in the bulk bins.  But dry-roasted peanuts were on sale.  (They probably didn't have time to restock the almonds because they were busy restocking copies of RED.)

So I took home my giant bag 'o peanuts, really just thinking about how lovely they would taste drenched in ice cream and hot fudge...

But I stayed on the straight-and-narrow and used them to make peanut butter.  It was ridiculously easy.

In a food processor, process 3 cups of dry-roasted peanuts.  After about 5 minutes, they will be smooth and creamy.  Add in 1/2 t. salt and then 1 T. honey.  The honey doesn't really make it sweet, just gives it some depth.  Store in an airtight container (like a pretty mason jar) in the fridge.
I know that natural peanut butter often separates, but this, after 24 hours in the fridge, hadn't separated at all.  I was impressed.