I am known amongst those closest to me to be a woman who loves to cook but also an extremely picky eater. It is these two things that led to this challenge.
With the help of my sister, I will cook every single one of the recipes from Allegra McEvedy's 'Around the World in 120 Recipes', aiming to do three recipes a week. Why this specific book you ask? Well, it's simple - we wanted adventurous and varying recipes and this book gets great reviews!!
Follow this blog and you will see how my tastes progress as I experiment and how we inspire our weekly menu. We're cooking each dish for a family of three adults and a toddler. Obviously some of the recipes won't necessarily be suitable for the toddler but we'll try and vary as many of them as possible so that she can enjoy the experiment too!
The whole household is looking forward to this challenge because, like many others, we have dug ourselves into a little bit of a food rut. With three working adults, all with their own favourite dishes, it becomes more and more difficult to come up with new and inventive dinners that aren't too time consuming to make.

So, challenge accepted! Lets see how this goes!

Sunday, 31 August 2014

Peanut Butter Protein Shake (NYC)

My least favourite fruit
ever
The title of this is pretty self-explanatory. As you probably guessed, it's a shake made using peanut butter. 


My only problem with a lot of shakes is that they use banana. I don't mind it so much when they have another ingredient which could overpower the taste of it but I don't generally like things that taste like banana. This recipe is one of those that uses banana to thicken the consistency, but I was hoping that the peanut butter would drown out the banana flavour. Unfortunately for me, I'm not a big fan of peanut butter either so it didn't look too good. Nevertheless, I was oddly optimistic for this recipe. 


Soph and I aren't new to making shakes, we love making smoothies and juices and we used to have Whey protein shakes quite regularly. We even started a 7 day juice diet a couple of months ago. I say started because we made it precisely one shake into the diet.  Not because we got too hungry, or because it didn't taste good. No. We stopped because the first shake we made was so filling that we couldn't drink enough of it and they didn't keep well.  The diet that we were doing needed you to drink 7/8 shakes a day and we came to the conclusion that, if the shakes weren't going to keep well and look appealing after being in the fridge all day, it wouldn't be practical to do it while I was working. You never know though, maybe we'll give it another go some time since the one we made did actually taste quite nice. 






Anyway, when it came to this recipe, we were quite looking forward to giving it a try.  It sounded nice and looked great.  

As those of you who've made shakes before will know, the recipes generally just comprise putting everything in a blender and turning it on. This recipe is no different. Super simple and quick to make. 

I was, however, disappointed by the outcome.  I only got three sips in before I had to stop drinking it.  It tasted, surprise suprise, like peanut butter and banana.  That wouldn't have been as big a problem though if it didn't also have a strange powdery taste to it.  We think this is because of the amount of Whey protein in it but, either way, I'm not likely to try this one again. Soph liked hers more and drank about 2/3 of it before the powdery taste got to her and she had to stop. My brother-in-law did manage to drink all of his but he didn't seem like he enjoyed it all that much. So all-in-all I'd say we're not overly keen on this recipe. 
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