Thai Peanut Sauce

I love Thai food...loooove it.  Most of it is lacking dairy and yet still tastes fabulous!  Peanut sauce I could eat by the spoonful.  This recipe is as good as it gets.  It gives me the peanut sauce flavor I crave from the restaurants and my DF kid loves it.

Ingredients:

1 Tbsp. Olive Oil ( I prefer coconut oil, but am currently out)
1 tsp. granulated garlic (or 2 cloves minced fresh garlic, fried in the oil)
2 Tbsp. Red Curry paste ( I used massaman curry paste from the Asian store)
1/2 Tbsp. Fish Sauce
1 1/4 c. Creamy Peanut butter
3/4 c. brown sugar
1/2 tsp. chili powder
2 cans Coconut Milk

Directions:
1.  In sauce pan or wok heat oil and fry garlic if fresh.  Add curry and heat slightly.
2.  Whisk in 1 can coconut milk and add rest of the ingredients.
3.  Bring to a boil and boil for about a minute.

4.  I just steam veggies and boil chopped up chicken to add on top of my Jasmine rice and then ladle the peanut sauce over it all and enjoy.

I need to figure out how the Asian 1 makes their peanut sauce into a salad dressing...I would eat salad forever with that sauce on it...

Peeps-DF and naturally colored

My kids love peeps.  They are loaded with food coloring and with HFCS and corn syrup etc.  I really wanted to try making some from scratch and was surprised how amazingly easy they were to make.  I will definitely make these again.  The beet powder worked the best, the blueberry...well...by the time I got enough into it, it would have been goo...so it looks more grey.  The powdered sugar was cute as well.

Ingredients and directions

1 packet Knox unflavored gelatin
1/4 c. water

Put into stand mixer or bowl to sit while cooking.

1/3 c. water
1 c. sugar

Put in small saucepan and bring to a boil.  Boil until temp on candy thermometer reaches about 230° F.
Add very hot mix to mixer and mix on medium/high speed for about 8 min or until it begins to form soft peaks.  Spoon mix into Pam sprayed silicone forms or sheet pan lined with sprayed parchment paper to use cookie cutters on. 

When set they will pop right out of silicone forms and roll in prepared sugar.

I used about 1/4-1/8 tsp. beet powder mixed with enough drops of water to make a paste.  Mix in enough sugar to make a pretty pink.  The blueberry made that grey color and would take so much blueberry that it would make it gooey...I haven't tried letting it dry first yet, but that  will be another day for sure. I would also like to work with some flavors.  They were really good alone but maybe with some almond flavoring or this butter/nut flavoring that I have...hm...
Needless to say, the girls loved them.  I bet they would make a great smore...