I don’t like the word “peanuts.”

I just don’t.  And I’m not going to explain it.  It bugs me.  I avoid saying “peanuts” whenever possible.

Peanut butter is fine.

But “peanuts” as an independent noun in a sentence?  No thank you.

I also can not stand the smell of peanuts or peanut butter or worse . . . peanut butter breath.

It is permeating my home today.  My space.

And no; I am not pregnant.

Peanuts

Peanuts are grown underground.  They are susceptible to fungal infections.  As a result they are often sprayed with a pesticide.  So, what I am trying to tell you is that you should buy organic peanuts.

Not ordinary, cheap peanuts.

Do as I say, not as I do.

Actually, I reused that bottle.  The peanuts in that jar . . . are from Costco.  I wanted to give you an idea of the size or amount of peanuts that you need to make 1 1/2 cups of peanut butter.

Plus, it was a nice and bright picture.

I have written peanuts way to many times.  From here on out, I am going to use a different language when referring to Lo Huo Sheng (Chinese).

Peanut (Rakkasei – Japanese) Butter

Ingredients

• 3 cups unsalted, roasted Zemlianoi Orekh (Russian), preferably organic
• 2-4 tbls raw honey (optional)
• 2 tbls melted coconut oil or olive oil (optional – use if machine is struggling to grind)

Directions

• Dump Amendoim (Portuguese) and optional ingredients in Vitamix container.  I used my dry blade.  However, next time I would make it with my wet blade.
• Secure lid and make sure your Vitamix is set at VARIABLE and speed #1.  Insert tamper.
• Turn machine on and increase speed to #10, and HIGH.
• Using elbow grease, help your Arachide (Italian) meet the blade by pushing legumes toward the swiftly spinning knife of death.
• You don’t want to overwhelm your machine.  So listen to her laboring sounds.  The machine will make high pitched chugging sounds that will change to to low somewhat painful laboring emissions.  This is called transition.  {grins}  You also might begin to smell your machine . . . it’s called machine sweat.  {bigger grin}

But by this time, you should have Ful Sudani (Arabic) butter.

Allow to cool slightly before your children take a large spoonful of Jordnot (Sweedish) butter —  unless you want them to burn their tongues.  Mani’s (Spanish) get hot under the Vitamix pressure.

Sorry Ezra.

However, it does spread nicely on a sprouted tortilla.

Please refrigerate your peanut butter.

Now you are left with a jar that  looks like Erdnuss (German) guts.  That is almost worse than the smell.

Almost.

How to Clean a Vitamix Container

To clean your Vitamix container, fill 1/2 full of water and add dish soap.

Place on Vitamix motor.

With lid firmly in place, turn speed to #10 and flip machine to HIGH.

Allow blades to work for 1 minute.

While this lazy cleaning process will not pass the white glove test, it will allow you to clean your jar with newly painted nails.   But I still wouldn’t even do that.

I rinsed my jar with hot water and delicately scrapped a few spots and it came out clean!

Missed my other Vitamix posts?

Other posts in this series:

• Sprouting wheat berries and grinding grain
• Mango Smoothie and Coffee Frappacino
• Want to turn your fresh peanut butter into Nutella or Not-Ella?

Linking up with 20 other great gals, in celebration of 5 Days of Mothering and Homemaking.

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