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for crust:
organic graham crackers (14 crackers)
One stick organic butter
for filling:
One 8-ounce package organic cream cheese
Four tablespoons organic butter
Two cups organic turbinado sugar
12 ounces organic peanut butter – freshly ground, if possible
16 ounces organic heavy cream
Organic Hazelnut syrup to taste
Prepare crust:
1. Put the graham crackers in a food processor and spin under turned into crumbs
2. Melt butter, turn on processor and gradually pour butter into the graham cracker crumbs
3. Pulse until the entire contents of the processor look well mixed.
4. Butter a deep pie plate, pour in crumbs and push them around until the crumbs are generally covering the
bottom and sides of the pie plate. Press them down all around, packing them tightly in the pie plate to create the pie crust.
5. Bake at 325 degrees for 8 minutes. Let cool before pouring in filling.
prepare filling:
1. Whip Cream Cheese for at least 5 minutes in an electric stand mixer
2. Add 4 tablespoons butter and continue whipping for another 5 minutes.
3. Add sugar and continue to whip for another five minutes.
4. Add organic Hazelnut syrup and peanut butter and whip until mixed.
Be careful at this stage
Do not over mix as the peanut butter will separate from its oil
If that happens, it is not a disaster – just continue and ignore the oil, it will reincorporate into the pie filling when you add heavy cream.
5. Slowly add heavy cream and continue to mix until the filling is light and fluffy and all the ingredients seem to be one. A good filling resembles light brown whipped cream.
Pour the filling into the pie shell and freeze for at least two hours.
MY NOTES:
There is no such thing as a free lunch
To make good food it takes an investment of time, thought, energy and the very best organic ingredients one can find.
You can tell the level of a persons ability to care and take responsibility by how well or how ill they cook. Beware the one who burns lots of things and whose food comes out tasting pretty awful. Stay far – far away from them.
Some Random Thoughts
If you have to buy peanut butter in a jar, it will be separated into oil (on top) and butter (on bottom of jar). Don’t let the health nuts get to you – resist the temptation to discard the oil. That action will ruin your pie and it will be far less nourishing.
Did you know the combination of peanut butter and milk makes for a complete meal?
You can use organic peanuts and grind them into peanut butter. I am dedicated, but not to that extent. The taste, I conjecture, would be far superior.
Try smooth or crunchy peanut butter. Either makes a great pie – it depends upon your taste.
Or use smooth and grind a few peanuts saving a few to sprinkle on top of the pie before serving. That might satisfy the need to grind your own. And it says to whoever sees the pie what kind of pie it is.
While mixing this pie, make yourself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Since the pie has to be refrigerated and/or frozen for several hours before you can cut and eat it, this should satisfy the craving to instantly cut and taste.
Have a cup or organic tea with your sandwich while you make notes about the pie that you don’t want to forget or that you want to incorporate into your next pie. I like half Earl Grey and half peppermint leaf. It is a nice accompaniment and also helps you to digest the pie, especially if you are over 60.
If there is no one around to take away your mixing bowl to get the leavings – instead of the sandwich, scrape the bowl yourself onto graham crackers and have that with your tea. It makes just as nice a treat as the peanut butter sandwich. You can’t do this when others are in the kitchen because you will only have enough left in the mixing bowl for one.
While eating the pie and drinking the tea, write a few notes leaving your thoughts to posterity. Your notes could be about the process, an improved technique, your changing the ingredients or totally unrelated thoughts which you had while making and eating the pie. All are relevant to the creative cooking process. A book could be created just with such notes.
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