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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!
Peanut Butter and Fudge Swirl PiePeanut Butter Cookies
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1-24-2008 @5:46PM Lynds said... For a change of pace sometimes I put the peanut butter in a tortilla top with some honey and wrap it like a burrito, and microwave it for a few seconds. Its gooey goodness
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1-24-2008 @6:09PM yankeereb said... My favorite Peanut Butter sandwich is whole wheat or multi-grain bread with JIF smooth & creamy peanut butter and banana slices with a drizzle of honey. It's one of my favorite breakfasts. This is a modified-Elvis. He would have grilled the sandwich, but I do not like warm peanut butter.
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1-24-2008 @7:04PM alosha7777 said... my pb&j has to be with grape jelly, just the old-fashioned way. I put pb on both sides and then jelly on one side so that it is in the middle of two pb layers. this is a great method if you're packing it for a kid's lunch too because you won't risk one side getting mushy because it has the jelly touching the bread. oh, and a glass of whole milk please!
I was also telling someone just the other day that when I was in kindergarten I used to go to school the half day (I had mornings) and the other half I would get dropped off at this lady's house until about 4. neighbor lady? damn, I don't even remember who she was hahahaha. anyway, she used to make me pb and marshmallow cream spread (the jet puft stuff) and it was so good. I have a hard time as an adult eating something that sweet, but boy I ate them every day no problem when I was 5! ;)
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1-24-2008 @7:07PM Monty Harris said... Not too picky on brands. Usually white but sometimes wheat bread. In the past I would throw on some sliced radishes and fore go the jelly. One version my dad would eat and I occasionally was PB and horseradish. Tastes better than it sounds. Normally it is Super Chunk and any jam or jelly, toasted if it is for breakfast. PB, banana and mayo on white is still consumed when the mood hits. Too many ways to make a PB and whatever. Does it ever go wrong?
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1-24-2008 @11:33PM Elizabeth said... Aunt Millie's Country Buttermilk Bread, Creamy Jif, and Homemade Strawberry Jam (sold at a local produce retailer called Horrock's). With 2 percent milk.
I also like to toast an Everything bagel and spread PB on it while it's warm, so the PB gets all melty. YUM!
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1-25-2008 @1:55AM Scout said... A whole grain bread, better if it's nutty, with skippy super chunk and blackberry jam. Growing up in WA state, we always had blackberry and strawberry freezer jam around. For years I thought I'd "outgrown" pb&j but it turns out I just don't like it with grape or raspberry!
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1-25-2008 @10:47AM Rachel said... One of my staple breakfasts in the college dining room was melting a big scoop of PB in the microwave (Peter Pan works the best for this) then coating a serving of plain cheerios in the melty goodness and topping with cold milk...yum!
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1-25-2008 @1:00PM jenn said... i didn't know that my favorite spread had its own day! how fun!
i make my pbj using Smucker's Natural Creamy (no sugar!) and today i toasted my bread. i like toasted bread because the little bit of warmth the toast retains makes the pb gooey.
i spread my jam--not jelly--on the opposite side, and today it was grape. i am also partial to sour cherry, seedless raspberry, and apricot. honey is good too, but it's not a jam or jelly, so i'm not sure i should be mentioning it.
the bread is arnold italian bread--a firm white. ironically, i don't eat my sandwich as a sandwich. i eat the pb side first and then chase it with the sweet jam side. sometimes i just dip a saltine or pretzel twist in pb for a snack.
i drink water or 1% milk with mine.
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1-25-2008 @3:06PM Fash said... I like mine on toasted white, with crunchy PB and usually apricot jelly/jam. I prefer less PB to jam, actually. And I eat them open faced, which I realize is simply toast with PB&J.
I also really like this with tart applesauce instead of jam.
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1-25-2008 @3:09PM Jason Levine said... We've picked up some Peanut Butter & Co. ( http://www.ilovepeanutbutter.com/ ) peanut butter from Christmas Tree Shops in the past. I like Dark Chocolate Dreams and my wife's partial to the Cinnamon Raisin Swirl. Then we saw The Heat Is On. That's their peanut butter "blended with chili powder, cayenne and crushed red peppers."
Now I'm a fan of spicy food, but my wife isn't. (Especially when nursing. Spicy milk = unhappy baby!) So I picked up the PB for me to try. It was good. Not so much a "burn your taste buds to a crisp" heat as a "smolders in your mouth for hours on end" heat. It would probably be good as the base for a Peanut Butter chicken sauce.
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1-27-2008 @8:50PM evil_barbie_killer said... Kraft smooth peanut butter on rye bread with natural strawberry jam
also crunchy PB and sweet chilli sauce on toast
yummmmm
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