For a classic PBJ, Jif is my go-to jar. But for a true taste of toasted nuts, Jim Rose, a.k.a. Mr. Peanut Butter, is the man. He sells his almond, cashew and peanut butters out of an ice cream truck at farmers markets and fairs all summer, and online year-round.
After seven years of making nut butters, Rose has perfected the process, but is always searching for new flavor combinations like Amish Whip, peanut butter blended with marshmallow cream and maple syrup, and Hot and Spicy peanut butter with cayenne, paprika and chile.
“I only grind enough each week to cover the markets where I am selling. Because I only use fresh-roasted nuts and grind fresh weekly, I can get the flavor that you and all my customers have come to love and expect,” Rose said in an e-mail.
I came home from the market with a jar of honey cinnamon almond butter that tastes like those roasted nuts that come in a paper cone at county fairs. It’s good on ice cream or fruit, but I like it best on a spoon. The problem is stopping after three or four spoonfuls.
P.S. Rose’s wife, Tammy, makes the ice cream they sell out of the same trucks at area markets.
Kristen Browning-Blas: 303-954-1440 or kbrowning@denverpost.com
ROSE’S CREAMERY.
Nut butters and ice cream. Find the van Fridays at Northfield Stapleton Summerfest Street Faire; Saturdays at Lone Tree farmers market, Southlands farmers market, Aurora, and Drake Road farmers market, Fort Collins; Sundays at the Parker farmers market and Orchard farmers market, Westminster. Some Great Harvest Bread Co. shops carry the nut butters. Rosescreamery, 303-646-6469.
