Peanut Butter

Along with my sweet and spice vice I also have a major thing for sweet and salt!

Salted caramels, chocolate coated pretzel rods are an obvious "like" for me, but my first love of sweet and salt is peanut butter, and not just any peanut butter, but peanut butter whizzed, melded and slurped through a straw as a peanut butter milkshake!

I try peanut butter milkshakes literally whenever I see them on a menu, and here are a few of my favourites!

Let's start with the thickest milkshake I have ever had, at "The Burger Bar" in Roy, Utah, as you can see it is literally sticking up and out of the polystyrene cup. Don't be fooled by it's vanilla ice-cream appearance, because it packs the biggest peanut buttery punch, but you do need to eat it with a spoon, so maybe less a shake more a dessert, either way I was happy with what I received when this came through the serving hatch.

On a hot summers day, whilst walking around a city and shopping there is no better pit stop than at Ed's Diner in London, England, of which there are now 4 restaurants. This peanut butter shake is blended with Horlicks malt drink to give it some malty malteasery goodness, it is drinkable through a straw, but the best part of this milkshake is that when you order it you do so in an "authentic" 50's American diner, making it feel all the more special. It is served in a big glass with extra (always needed) in a metal canister in which it was blended.

My third happiest is again in Utah, and I am just going to say any drive through, as I am afraid I can't remember the specific fast food chain, so instead I am going to share this picture...look how happy it makes three girls?! Thank you, God of peanuts for whizzing up your children and adding it to milk!

So, for a peanut lover, a peanut butter shake is the best thing in the world...I intend to try peanut butter in all of my future recipes just to see what works...I imagine it will be everything! One to think about is going to be chocolate macaroons with peanut butter filling...YUM!