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Post by Yoris on Aug 1, 2018 3:10:35 GMT -7
Sometimes I like to try new and potentially unusual combinations of food. Here's a report of how I liked the combination of peanut butter and carob:
I used Skippy Natural peanut butter, and again I used Skippy Natural with honey (the kind that comes with honey added).
For the first kind, it tasted almost exactly like just plain peanut butter. The carob was hardly detectable, unless you looked at it.
For the second kind, it tasted similarly like peanut butter, but with a slight chocolate-type flavor. I tried it on two peanut butter and mango/lime/chia fruit spread sandwiches, and I'd say it was a slight improvement over regular peanut butter.
All in all, I'd say it's a great way to add extra nutrition and a chocolate color to your peanut butter, but it'll still taste like peanut butter. I feel like adding more honey/sugar might bring out more carob flavor.
As a side note, if your carob clumps into chunks in storage, blending it up in a blender does work to re-powder it.
I thought this might be a nice combination since both carob and peanuts are legumes (and mixing things of the same family sometimes results in awesomeness).
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Post by Yoris on Aug 10, 2018 1:57:35 GMT -7
So, I just wanted to point out that if you use larger amounts of carob in the peanut butter, it does change the taste somewhat (but it's still very close to the peanut butter taste).
They should market the stuff as a health food and call it locust butter. In fact, speaking of name marketing, I think carob could have been a whole lot more popular if someone had decided to use the name locust for everything instead of carob:
• Locust butter • Locust milk • Locust bars • Locust cookies • Locust and Cinnamon ice cream (this is really, really good, by the way—just thoroughly mix carob and cinnamon into cheap vanilla ice cream—not the expensive Ben & Jerry's / Breyers / Dryer's type stuff that melts differently)
I mean, kids would love it, just for the name—if they know what locusts are. They'll feel like they're eating grasshopper-like creatures (even if they know they're not), and probably not mind at all that it doesn't taste like chocolate. I was obsessed with locusts as a child, even though I had never seen one (and maybe not even a picture of one). I'm pretty sure at least two of my siblings were obsessed with all-things-locust, too. Locust street was my favorite street—even though I really didn't know where it was or what it looked like. Black locust trees were awesome, I thought (I still think so).
They should put mesquite in the locust products, too, since at least one mesquite species is known as locust.
FYI: I think eating carob, home-grown tomatoes, and home-grown blackberries in the same day is a good idea.
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