I can’t tell you how exhausted I am. As most of you know, I’ve been traveling–since May 15. Hard to move around all the time. Fun though. Family. Friends. Fun. Now I am back in Healdsburg at the moment. Collecting myself as I get ready for the next chapter of my life and I thought I might write a post about peanut butter.
I like peanut butter. I like the just peanuts kind. In fact, I like the just peanuts, crunchy kind. Except, EXCEPT, the crunchy in the butter has to definitely be crunched peanuts. You can’t have peanut butter with whole peanuts in it. This summer at my parent’s, I went looking at the Superstore for the just peanuts kind and all I found was something that said it was just peanuts. When I got it home, it was smooth goo with whole peanuts in it!
What kind of peanut butter is that?
Anyway, if I had my own cafe or something, I would have a peanut butter menu. Here are a few things I’d start with:
- Peanut butter on toast with slices of cucumber
- Peanut butter on toast with slices of apple or maybe even pear (I haven’t tried the pear combination yet).
- Peanut butter on celery sticks
- Peanut butter on slices of apple
- And for those who like sweet instead of savory, peanut butter and jam sandwich
That’s a good start. Anybody have any other suggestions?
A day at Caprice du Temps (family-owned winery in Miege, Switzerland)
For the sweet side, peanut butter and honey. Mmmmm.
When I got up this morning and poured my first cup of coffee and made my peanut butter on toast. I ate it at the dining room table and read the Food & Wine section of the Press Democrat (local Sonoma County newspaper).
Mark Bitten over at the New York Times wrote a much more eloquent article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/dining/26mini.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=peanut%20butter&st=cse
I’ll have to spice mine up to compete!
I made Eggless Peanut Butter cookies tonight. Cookies definitely should be on the menu, eggless or not. I believe my husband ate relish and PB on bread and enjoyed it..many times.
Relish and PB??? A lot of people question me and my cucumber combination, so I daren’t question the relish combination. I guess, I guess I’ll have to try it.
Growing up I had a friend who quite enjoyed pb and pickles for lunch.