Grow City Food and Cooking from the Garden

  Peanut, Peanut Butter!! Just about everyone loves peanut butter and has fond memories of making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Do you? And did you know that peanut butter is terribly easy to make? It is! Well, there's the tedium (if one sees it that way) of shelling them first (unless you buy shelled peanuts, of course), but shelling can be a good thing to do while watching TV or having a conversation, or it can be a good activity to share with children (who will love eating the peanuts and anticipating peanut butter), or it can just be a good meditative experience. No matter how you accomplish having shelled peanuts, it's so easy to turn them into peanut butter. Fact #1: Use USDA Certified Organic peanuts, unless you have grown your own using organic practices. Non-organic peanuts are one of the most pesticide-contaminated crops, as they are frequently rotated in a field with cotton, which is a glyphosate-heavy crop (so, you might also consider buying clothes or fab...