Peanut Flour Failure

Last night I wanted to use up the last of my Trader Joe's peanut flour...

which I had been happily adding to my oats for the past couple of months to give them a luscious creamy texture.

Did you ever mess with a good thing and wish you hadn't?

I decided to switch it up and make something savory...a variation of my tofu and broccoli with peanut sauce that I typically make with peanut butter.

It wasn't good.  I'm not sure what happened.  And now I'm out of peanut flour.

Perhaps Santa will swing by Trader Joe's and leave something good in my stocking.

Overnight Oats with Peanut Flour

Jackson's new thing is to pick up whole pieces of fruit and start taking bites out of them, instead of waiting for me to cut them up into little pieces, the way he has previously eaten fruit. At home, it's cute. The fruit looks so giant in his little hands. At the grocery store...it's not so cute! Let's just say I've had to pay for a few extra pieces of fruit in the past couple weeks!

Speaking of trips to the grocery store, you may recall I was pretty excited about my trip to Trader Joe's last week -- and I was particularly thrilled about this new discovery.

Peanut flour! But what to do with it, I wondered?

Chocolate peanut overnight oats! (Sorry about the bad pic -- the light in my kitchen is not good in the early morning.)

Chocolate Peanut Overnight Oats
1 cup soymilk
1/2 cup oats
2 Tbsp. peanut flour
1 tsp. cocoa powder
1 tsp. chia seeds (optional)

Combine the dry ingredients in a cereal bowl, then stir in the milk and refrigerate overnight. In the morning, mix well, add stevia to taste, eat.

In my opinion, peanut flour works sooooo much better than peanut butter in a bowl of oatmeal (and I'm someone who has always put peanut butter in my oatmeal). Its dry powdery consistency creates a decadent, velvety texture. Also, 2 Tbsp. of peanut flour provides 8 grams of protein while adding only 2 grams of fat.

I'm excited to see what else I can do with this stuff!

Trader Joe's Hummus Grab

For dinner last night we had the smoky miso tofu sandwiches from Vegan Yum Yum. I didn't have the red miso called for in the recipe. I had yellow miso. I'm not a miso connoisseur, so I'm not sure if the flavor varied drastically from what the recipe intended. Nevertheless, the result was tasty. The tofu slices were smoky, sweet, and a little crispy. We ate them on ciabatta rolls with Veganaise, tomato, and lettuce.

Today we made a little journey to Trader Joe's over in Connecticut. We don't make this 45-minute trip frequently, but it's worth it to go every so often, because the prices are so much better than at our local supermarkets. I stocked up on olive oil, coconut milk, and ciabatta rolls (of course). Meanwhile, these somehow made their way into the cart.

For that lovely sight, I can thank my husband, the hummus fiend! My eyes lit up when he piled them on the checkout counter, one after the other. And apparently Jackson takes after us. He finished half a tub of the kalamata-flavored hummus in about 5 minutes. That's our boy!

And then there's this...

I'm not sure what to do with it, but I bet the internets can tell me. When you have someone who loves peanut butter as much as I do, something like this isn't gonna go to waste!

Have you used peanut flour? Or are you trying out any other ingredients for the first time? I'd love to hear about your experiments.