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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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I baked peanut butter cookies for the first time in a long time and decided that I just didn't feel like making those totally played-out criss-cross marks with the tines of a fork. It wasn't laziness - criss-crosses are just so...2005. This is 2006, and we are so far beyond whatever those criss crosses were orginally there for.

Well, after baking them, I realized that the criss crosses are absolutely necessary. Not only did the cookies look boring, like plain sugar cookies that had stuck it out in the tanning salon a little too long, but you couldn't tell that they were peanut butter cookies! Obviously, it was too late to make the cris crosses after they were done baking, so I added them as chocolate. Not quite the same, but pretty tasty.