{"id":6339,"date":"2014-08-06T18:58:25","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T22:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6339"},"modified":"2014-08-06T20:13:05","modified_gmt":"2014-08-07T00:13:05","slug":"peanut-butter-a-cream-substitute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6339","title":{"rendered":"Peanut butter: a cream substitute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peanut-sauce.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"652\" src=\"http:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peanut-sauce.jpg\" alt=\"peanut-sauce\"  class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peanut-sauce.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/peanut-sauce-300x195.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Several times recently I&#8217;ve written about quick pasta dishes based on garden vegetables and a sauce made of cream heated in a skillet until it thickens. There&#8217;s also a vegan and no-cholesterol alternative: peanut butter sauce.<\/p>\n<p>To make the peanut butter sauce, gradually add water to peanut butter in a bowl, and stir it in. When you&#8217;ve stirred enough and added enough water, it will make a creamy sauce. Make your peanut butter sauce fairly thick if you&#8217;re using watery vegetables like tomatoes. Heat the sauce in the skillet with the other stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Cashews or walnuts will add a nice crunch. Peanuts, remember, are legumes, not nuts. So the mixture of nut and legume rounds out the amino acids for maximum protein. I always use organic whole wheat pasta. The combination of grain, legume, and nuts is the vegan ideal for maximizing the protein from vegan sources.<\/p>\n<p>Peanuts and tomatoes also are very good friends. Try thickening a fresh tomato soup with some peanut sauce, for example.<\/p>\n<p>The garden is still cranking out vast quantities of tomatoes, though they soon will fade, along with summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several times recently I&#8217;ve written about quick pasta dishes based on garden vegetables and a sauce made of cream heated in a skillet until it thickens. There&#8217;s also a vegan and no-cholesterol alternative: peanut butter sauce. To make the peanut butter sauce, gradually add water to peanut butter in a bowl, and stir it in. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/?p=6339\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Peanut butter: a cream substitute&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6339"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6349,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6339\/revisions\/6349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acornabbey.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}