#100HappyDays: The science of peanut brittle

Peanut brittle, batch the second. Batch the first was more like PayDay innards. June 15, 2014

I admit, crankypants Shawna showed up to our early Father's Day BBQ. I stomped in in a huff, cursing my peanut brittle. Well, what should have been peanut brittle anyway. It turned out more like peanut mush. Good flavor, no crunch. Since it was meant to be a gift, I was double grumpy.

Turns out candy making is a science, not an art. When it says boil to 300 degrees, it means boil to 300 degrees.

Because I like to get things right, of course, I woke up the next morning and made a second batch.

Peanut brittle perfection.

Just a few more degrees (and a ton of stirring) took the end product from PayDay to perfect.

xoxo,
shawna

#100HappyDays
1. 24 Hours of Happy
2. If loving a wheelbarrow is wrong...
3. A trip to the nursery
4. Transplants
5. Sweet peas
6. Cool as a...
7. A Butterfinger Blizzard
8. Happiness by the yard
9. Keeping the vampires at bay
10. Giving P.F. Chang's a run for its money
11. A little Spring snow in the Sierras
12. Communing with fellow comm nerds
13. Ladies' night
14. Ten Thousand Waves in Santa Fe, New Mexico
15. The shredded cedar fitness plan
16. Baby's first Easter
17. Bathmat runways
18. Oasis in progress
19. My kind of Easter egg hunt
20. Mass cookie production

21. West Coast Formation Clinic 2014

22. West Coast Ravens, smoke on!

23. West Coast Formation Clinic All Up

24. Colorful, if not magical, beans

25. Stinking roses

26. Noodle salad

27. Tomato mania

28. Real smiles

29. Conquering cross-wind landings

30. Gypsy chickens and birthday celebrations

31. Conjuring a rainstorm

32. Bountiful boxes

33. The reluctant birthday boy

34. Copper poppies

35. Caprese chicken magic

36. Moms love waffles

37. Hearty soup for a hot "summer" day

38. A friend of the library

39. Talking Above the Fray

40. Go, go gadget green beans

41. Clinking frapps

42. Berries and bosom friends

43. Little red ZHP

44. Scratch pasta goodness
45. The sweetest final ever

46. A beautiful birthday girl

47. Mac & cheese for breakfast

48. Seattle sunshine

49. Spectacular Seattle

50. Rocking the International Communication Association convention

51. Veggie box

52. A bumper plant

53. Unusually tasty vegetables

54. My poor Corolla-mobile

55. Anti-fashion

56. My lovelies

57. Super soaker

58. Because you can never have too many tomatoes

59. Civic participation

60. Above the Fray's first advisory board meeting

61. Adventures in babysitting

62. Succulents

63. Golden West Airshow

64. Another use for research handbooks

65. Squish

66. Minnie made me do it

67. It's good to be king

68. Quilted wisdom

69. Flying on Friday the 13th during a full moon

70. Baby's first swim