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I wasn't sure how to celebrate National Peanut Butter Day. I could put up a bunch of recipes that include peanut butter (and I will, after the jump), but I also wanted to ask one of the more important questions of all-time.
How do you make your peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
I mean, what type of bread do you use? What type of peanut butter? Do you spread the jelly on top of the peanut butter or on the other slice of bread? Do you cut it or eat it whole? What do you drink with it?
I use a soft but hearty bread, like a Canadian White or Pepperidge Farm (Wonder Bread is way too flimsy and lame). I use crunchy Jif, and I spread the peanut butter and jelly on separate slices. I eat it whole, with a glass of fat free milk.
Peanut butter recipes after the jump!
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1-24-2008 @12:20PM Lindsay said... To celebrate National Peanut Butter Day I am going to purchase some sun dried tomato peanut butter! crazy! pbloco.com
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1-24-2008 @12:25PM Stephanie said... My younger son is allergic to peanuts, so we no longer have peanut butter in the house. For my older son we now make sun butter and jelly sandwiches. We use toasted sprouted wheat bread (like alvarado st), and raspberry jam. He loves them.
One of my favorite peanut butter sandwiches in the summer was PB, bacon and tomato-- same bread as above, bacon next to the PB, then tomato, then a thin layer of mayo on the other bread slice. Yum. I shall have to see how that works with the sun butter.
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1-24-2008 @12:32PM Victoria said... I like mine for breakfast. A toasted piece of whole wheat bread or a ww bagel with creamy peanut butter (my favorite is honey nut Skippy) with my homemade strawberry freezer jam. De-lish.
I also dig pb as a snack, on apples or bananas.
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1-24-2008 @12:45PM Rachel said... I like my PB straight out of the jar, pure and simple. PB loco makes some crazy good stuff, especially their european mocha and sumatra cinnamon raisin flavors. I also like the fresh ground stuff that you can find at whole foods and if I'm lucky, they'll have the honey roasted peanuts in the grinder.
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1-24-2008 @1:19PM RJ said... Ever since I was about 5 years old I have been making triple-decker PB&J's, having just two slices of bread is never enough, and I really slather on the chunky PB. I am allergic to raspberries (and I hate how they taste anyway), so it's gotta be strawberry or grape jelly to accompany it with. Add to that a gigantic glass of milk and that's a lunch that is good ANY day of the year, and brings me right back to my childhood. Hooray for peanut butter day!
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1-24-2008 @12:52PM Julie said... I like mine on soft sliced italian bread, buttered then a little peanut on both sides and my jelly stuffed in the middle. Grape jelly will do but I lean more towards a seedless raspberry. I wash that all down with either iced tea or hot coffee.
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1-24-2008 @2:54PM Leslie said... Mmmm, peanut butter. My new fave is the Smart Balance natural peanut butter. I eat mine spread on Wheat Thins. Yum!
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1-24-2008 @1:15PM Sarah said... It has to be on a "medium" bread, not too hard and crusty and not too soft. Roman Meal, Split Top What and Potato Bread are good examples. The ratio of PB to Jelly is 2:1. The peanut butter MUST be of the creamy variety AND the jelly MUST be grape. The sandwich also must be cut on a diagional. :)
Also check out www.ilovepeanutbutter.com. The white chocolate flavor is to DIE for!
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1-24-2008 @1:33PM Michelle Solomon said... Is there a comprehensive list anywhere that lists the food holidays? I need some advance notice! (I've been doing some web searching but haven't found anything yet, but clearly others know if it's National Pie Day or National Peanut Butter Day.)
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1-24-2008 @1:37PM EAC said... 1. almond butter
2. strawberry jam or pumpkin butter
3. a spelt torilla
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1-24-2008 @2:38PM Dartssnake said... Toasted thick (3/4") Mancini's Twist (http://mckeesrocksbread.com/aboutUs.asp), both slices lightly touched with Kerrygold Salted butter and a thin layer of Skippy Superchunk followed by Smuckers Grape Jelly...in winter with a big mug of hot cocoa, summer, chocolate milk...
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1-24-2008 @4:30PM george said... Costco organic peanut butter + spoon + TV = perfect.
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1-24-2008 @3:28PM agent54 said... brownberry oatnut bread (or 12 grain, whatever they have at the store), creamy pb (i was a peter pan girl but i guess that's gone for good so i don't have a brand of choice) and strawberry jelly. any other flavor is just weird and grape is plain gross. sliced diagonally and served with a jack and coke. i might have to have that when i get home.
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1-25-2008 @6:04PM Karen said... Peter Pan should be back on your shelves. The processing plant is up and running and we have been buying it again for while now.
1-24-2008 @4:01PM TINA said... Nice soft Webers bread, Jif Chunky and Smuckers Grape Jelly, with a glass of chocolate milk or an ice cold can of Pepsi. OMG, that's good!
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1-24-2008 @4:09PM Lauren said... I am currently addicted to Peanut Butter & Co. Dark Chocolate Dreams, which I slather on toasted wheat bread along with strawberry or fig preserves. Or just straight out of the jar. Sometimes I don't feel like bothering with the other things.
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1-24-2008 @4:20PM Little Tart said... Creamy Jif on Hillbilly wheat bread (glorified white bread - squish...chewy...)with Honey (preferably old honey that has crystalized a little)and crunched up Doritos (Fritos will work as well).
How I miss being 8 years old...
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1-24-2008 @4:32PM Janis said... For a cold sandwich...I spread Skippy Natural on sunflower kernal bread, spread black raspberry jelly over the pb & top with another slice of bread. Cut corner to corner & drink with tall glass of very cold whole milk!
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1-24-2008 @4:34PM justin said... Wegmans has a new organic peanut butter that is made with palm oil so it doesn't separate like normal organic PB. It is probably the best PB I have ever had.
I normally eat it on triscuits
as in ALL THE TIME. If I really need jelly too, I just dip a triscuit in some strawberry preserves.
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1-24-2008 @5:24PM Scott said... PB on both slices of Brownberry soft wheat. Welch's grape or my Mom's homemade strawberry. About 2 parts PB to 1 part jelly. Very cold root beer.
Oh, and eat it outdoors...
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