u/Available_Expression

Nuked the cookie for 15 seconds

A few days ago, i shared the way i made an epic PBJ, but also received the recommendation to do a homemade bread. This time, the bread is a basic homemade sandwich bread. I'm pretty sure this is the recipe that she used ( https://wildthistlekitchen.com/honey-white-bread/ ).

For the rest, it started as roughly 2 lbs of "seedless" white marquis grapes. We got these plants from costco 3 years ago and basically what you need to know about grape plants is that only 2nd year and older vines produce fruit, so it takes a good 3-4 years before their production really explodes. I probably harvested these about a week late, so there were a lot of bad ones to pick through, as seen in the pictures. These are supposedly seedless, but had just as many seeds as my other grapes, so i don't know.

Anyway, same recipe.... 1 cup of sugar per pound of grapes, a couple tsp of pectin (that i likely didn't even need but didn't want to have to reboil this and didn't really know what would happen with white grapes). Boiled for just over an hour and then canned these. The jam is quite stiff, but was easy to spread after it warmed up on the toasted bread. honestly it tastes like candy.

Also, obligatory.... had to smoke a couple bowls of Zoap through my TM2 to stay focused enough to finish this.

Good ole peanut butter and jelly. I lived on these as a kid and it's still basically a staple item. about 10 years ago I planted a concord grape plant. This is homemade/homegrown concord grape jam and honey roasted peanut butter on toasted sourdough. This is that story....

This sandwich is on toasted sourdough ( from aldi, i'm not a bread maker)

the jam is roughly 5.5 pounds of grapes, 5.5 cups of sugar, and 2 Tbsp of pectin (to help it set). Boil for an eternity (90 minutes or so for this batch). then can it in boiling water @ 10 minutes per batch. let it rest overnight to gel.

The peanut butter is a recipe I've used for a long time, but rarely make anymore. You can roast your own peanuts, but it's far easier and consistent to just buy a 16 oz jar of whatever you like. I like the honey roasted ones. Just salty enough. I do 2 Tbsp honey and 2-3 tbsp of oil. This is olive oil because it's what I have, but you could use peanut oil. It's so little that it doesn't impart flavor and it's really just to make it more spreadable. I've used coconut oil a couple times, but it is solid at room temp so it becomes harder to spread since you have to store this in the fridge. (ok you don't have to, but it lasts longer if you do). Dump peanuts into food processor. pour the oil on top of the peanuts first, so the honey doesn't stick to your spoon in the next step. then pour the honey. Let it blend up. It will first look like crumbled nuts. you may need to scrape the sides down once or twice to keep it moving along. A minute or two later and it will look like a ball of dough. Then eventually it will relax and turn into a peanut butter slurry. I did 3 tbsp of oil in this because it was a bit too thick. Blend it as thick or thin as you like. If you like it crunchy, take out a half cup of the peanuts at the crumbled up nut stage and add them back in after the rest of the peanut butter is smooth.

I used to make a lot of milkshakes, but i'm trying to not be so unhealthy these days so i've cut back. but anyway, here's a cookies and cream milkshake with thin oreos and peanut butter.

recipe

ice cream - however much you have left. generally 2 scoops for a shake this size. i've premeasured on the mixing cup for the capacity of the glass

2 cookies with a healthy glob of peanut butter between them (keeps it from sticking to the sides and mixer blades as much)

milk to fill the empty space

blend until combined

whipped cream on top if you'd like, but i'm out and didn't have anything to make diy whipped cream with.

And i always do a "garnish" of whatever the extra part is, so 2 oreos with a layer of peanut butter. These sunuvabitches started to sink due to the lack of whipped cream and thinness of this shake (ran out of ice cream). honestly they sank like a rock as soon as i took this picture and i had to dig them out before they disappeared into the abyss. got milkshake all down the side of the glass.

I grabbed this when sweetwater had them on sale. Sounds great. I'm not stoked on the gold pickguard but plan on replacing it. I did look under it. There's a route for a neck pickup. It has holes drilled for wires that go all the way to the control cavity. Which of course I also took off to figure out how the 3 way switch works. It's basically set cap values but the values are wiped off so I don't know what they are. Up is no table. Middle is full pickup. Down is no bass. Basically gives you a "neck" sound, a regular p90 sound. And a trebly strat like "bridge" position. The p90 is noiseless. It works for what I play (punk and ska).