The Sister-in-law unit and I made the trek to more populous regions yesterday and went shopping.
Trader Joe's was on the agenda.
[My only source for kosher meat, and all other things delectable.]
While we wandered about the store, I spied something I had read about and picked up a jar without any hesitation whatsoever.
Turns out that may have been a bad move.
Here it is, looking all innocent last night….
What is it?
Well, that is a rather difficult question to answer, because this food falls into a previously unknown category, in my experience at least.
No, it's not peanut butter, though it looks exactly like it.
Speculoos is a kind of cookie they bake in Holland. A spicy cookie. Well, to make cookie butter, they crush up a bunch of those cookies, and mix the crumbs with oils and sugars, and more oils and more sugars, and just a little more fats of various kinds, and they get…. believe it or not…. heroin.
It tastes like…creamy ginger snaps, but not quite like gingersnaps, and your poor brain has a really rough time identifying two such strange qualities [creamy and cookie] in the same spoonful.
Part of your brain says…. "That ain't right." The other part says, "Put the spoon in the jar again, this needs further analysis."
Anyway. Last night I went on a search for recipes that use this substance and found three to try.
Here's the first one...
Yep. Baked oatmeal.
Recipe here...
http://www.healthyfoodforliving.com/speculoos-cookie-butter-baked-oatmeal-for-one/
Is it as good as MY baked oatmeal?
No.
Is it good?
Oh yeah.
I made it exactly as the recipe states, but didn't have a banana to make the yogurt sauce to pour on top. And if you decide to try it, I would recommend the sauce. It needed a little something like that to finish it off. I ate mine with a little apple butter since that is what I had on hand. That was very good as a topping too.
If you don't have a Trader Joe's anywhere near you, I'm truly sorry for you. And I'm sorry to tease you with this entry. I don't know where else you can find this stuff, though most likely it's all over Europe. Perhaps we could hire a Cookie Butter runner to score us some?
Anyway, I have to go now and haul some wood or something to work off that bowl of oatmeal.
It's snowing.
That will make wood hauling more of an adventure.
What is it?
Well, that is a rather difficult question to answer, because this food falls into a previously unknown category, in my experience at least.
No, it's not peanut butter, though it looks exactly like it.
Speculoos is a kind of cookie they bake in Holland. A spicy cookie. Well, to make cookie butter, they crush up a bunch of those cookies, and mix the crumbs with oils and sugars, and more oils and more sugars, and just a little more fats of various kinds, and they get…. believe it or not…. heroin.
It tastes like…creamy ginger snaps, but not quite like gingersnaps, and your poor brain has a really rough time identifying two such strange qualities [creamy and cookie] in the same spoonful.
Part of your brain says…. "That ain't right." The other part says, "Put the spoon in the jar again, this needs further analysis."
Anyway. Last night I went on a search for recipes that use this substance and found three to try.
Here's the first one...
Yep. Baked oatmeal.
Recipe here...
http://www.healthyfoodforliving.com/speculoos-cookie-butter-baked-oatmeal-for-one/
Is it as good as MY baked oatmeal?
No.
Is it good?
Oh yeah.
I made it exactly as the recipe states, but didn't have a banana to make the yogurt sauce to pour on top. And if you decide to try it, I would recommend the sauce. It needed a little something like that to finish it off. I ate mine with a little apple butter since that is what I had on hand. That was very good as a topping too.
If you don't have a Trader Joe's anywhere near you, I'm truly sorry for you. And I'm sorry to tease you with this entry. I don't know where else you can find this stuff, though most likely it's all over Europe. Perhaps we could hire a Cookie Butter runner to score us some?
Anyway, I have to go now and haul some wood or something to work off that bowl of oatmeal.
It's snowing.
That will make wood hauling more of an adventure.