Still hungry. Not much protein in leek and barley pilaf.
So that must mean dessert! Yay!
Hm, could have chocolate. Could have yoghurt. What would fill me up more?
There’s that packet of peanut dessert mix that I bought. Peanuts have protein, so that’s practically healthy!
Reading the ingredients. Sugar comes first. Okay, not so healthy.
Boiling the kettle in order to follow the instructions. Cutting open two sachets, emptying their yellow powdery contents into separate bowls. Smells like peanuts. Pour on the water and stirstirstir!
Um, it’s hard to simultaneously stir. I feel like my left hand is totally uncoordinated. There are still little pockets of powder and they form into balls that won’t dissolve.
Oh, fine. Swapping between each bowl, mixing them in turn. Now it seems to have gotten thick.
Hmm, a warm thing like this will not be bad on a cold night!
Handing a bowl to The Husband, sitting down to continue watching Veronica Mars.
The powder has become a smooth golden paste, with the occasional fleck of peanut… or powder, who can tell?
The bowl warms my hands. Scooping into my mouth.
Yes, very smooth, like a peanut puree. It’s very sweet. In fact, it’s more sugary than nutty. But the nuttiness is there… it’s peanut porridge!
The Husband complains that it’s too salty, and washes his down the sink. Salty? I don’t taste any salt.
In fact, the more I eat it the more I like it. I’ve always liked moist, smooth things – I mash my ice cream and I soak my weet-bix – so the texture appeals to me. There are the occasional crunches of peanut shards and the grit of sugary undissolved powder but both are pleasurable in a way.
But it is very very sweet, too sugary, and that does wear on one.
Now it does start to get salty. And sickeningly sweet.
Quickly scrape the bowl clean.
Urk. Well, those last two packets can go in the bin.
Rating:
Specifics: Torto Instant Peanut Dessert, bought from a grocery store in Cabramatta
Instant Peanut Dessert
Still hungry. Not much protein in leek and barley pilaf.
So that must mean dessert! Yay!
Hm, could have chocolate. Could have yoghurt. What would fill me up more?
There’s that packet of peanut dessert mix that I bought. Peanuts have protein, so that’s practically healthy!
Reading the ingredients. Sugar comes first. Okay, not so healthy.
Boiling the kettle in order to follow the instructions. Cutting open two sachets, emptying their yellow powdery contents into separate bowls. Smells like peanuts. Pour on the water and stirstirstir!
Um, it’s hard to simultaneously stir. I feel like my left hand is totally uncoordinated. There are still little pockets of powder and they form into balls that won’t dissolve.
Oh, fine. Swapping between each bowl, mixing them in turn. Now it seems to have gotten thick.
Hmm, a warm thing like this will not be bad on a cold night!
Handing a bowl to The Husband, sitting down to continue watching Veronica Mars.
The powder has become a smooth golden paste, with the occasional fleck of peanut… or powder, who can tell?
The bowl warms my hands. Scooping into my mouth.
Yes, very smooth, like a peanut puree. It’s very sweet. In fact, it’s more sugary than nutty. But the nuttiness is there… it’s peanut porridge!
The Husband complains that it’s too salty, and washes his down the sink. Salty? I don’t taste any salt.
In fact, the more I eat it the more I like it. I’ve always liked moist, smooth things – I mash my ice cream and I soak my weet-bix – so the texture appeals to me. There are the occasional crunches of peanut shards and the grit of sugary undissolved powder but both are pleasurable in a way.
But it is very very sweet, too sugary, and that does wear on one.
Now it does start to get salty. And sickeningly sweet.
Quickly scrape the bowl clean.
Urk. Well, those last two packets can go in the bin.
Rating:
Specifics: Torto Instant Peanut Dessert, bought from a grocery store in Cabramatta