BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 23 Jul 24 - 01:38 AM

I asked the all-knowing google about red fruit ...

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 23 Jul 24 - 12:05 AM

Thanks Sandra. I used to do jigsaw puzzles on the computer. I think I downloaded them from a website but it is probably long gone by now.

Cranberries! All I could think of was pomegranate slices.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jul 24 - 11:07 PM

you get 2 puzzles a day!! & they only take about 10 mins to put together, & there are lotsa' interesting puzzles under MORE PUZZLES, especially "Create a custom puzzle and share it or add it to your own website" all the pic needs is a URL - a family member?, scenery?, event? ...

sandra

ps. they are cranberries -

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 22 Jul 24 - 08:30 PM

Oh no, Sandra. Don't start me up on that other addiction: jigsaw puzzles!!

Done! Too easy because each piece of toast had a different type of topping. But what is on the toast at the top right?

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 22 Jul 24 - 07:51 PM

enjoy!! Peanut Butter Toast Jigsaw Puzzle

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 26 Jun 24 - 03:04 AM

I was inspired to make Gado Gado salad last night. See the link I posted to a recipe on 08 Jun 24 - 04:51 PM. I liked it, and Hubby in his usual economical use of words appeared to approve. We used to order it at a Balinese restaurant nearby which shut down about 10 years ago.

Subtle flavours in the dressing which go well with salad and steamed vegetables. I added a small red chilli according to the recipe but it was very hot. Lucky I didn't use more than one!

I have frozen portions of the sauce for future use.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 20 Jun 24 - 02:57 PM

I like the idea of sour cherries with PB, and blueberries are appealing too. More food for thought.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Jun 24 - 11:22 AM

I haven't been to TJ's since I moved to Virginia. The closest is not as handy as it was in MD.... but I suppose I'll get around to it.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 07:03 PM

Trader Joe's Wild Boreal Blueberries on whole wheat waffles is an occasional breakfast for me, Bill. This thread inspired me to add a layer of PB.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 05:02 PM

I think that blueberries added to it would overcome the blandness I found with banana. Never thought about doing it on waffles.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 12:18 PM

I went a little crazy this morning and put crunchy PB, regular butter, frozen bluberries (thawed) and sliced banana on my toaster waffles this morning and it was alright.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Jun 24 - 11:01 AM

Well Helen, I took one slice of decent whole wheat bread, spread creamy PB on half of it, and put banana on top, then folded it over.
   It was perfectly acceptable for a snack... but seemed pretty bland.
I doubt that I'll make it a regular thing, as I'm so used to my habits of 75+ years.
   Later that evening, I wanted a bedtime snack, so I spread crunchy PB on a slice of bread and added a nice sour cherry preserves to it. (had Gooseberry opened, but that is a very mild flavor that I prefer with no PB)
I have unopened raspberry in the cupboard and 7-8 types of honey. My sweet tooth seems to control my habits. ;>)

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 10:04 PM

I've since discovered capsules, Helen and besides, the stuff is legal here now. Firecrackers were pretty good without the pot and with a spot of honey in it's place.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 09:38 PM

I'll just ask the drug squad to go to your place and check the pantry for Ritz crackers & PB. :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 08:48 PM

Back in the day we used to make something called firecrackers. We put PB on a couple of Ritz crackers, place a 1/2 teaspoon of baked (decarbolized) pot in the center of one cracker, make a sandwich of the two and bake them in the oven until crispy. It made the nasty stuff a bit more palatable.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 08:33 PM

That sounds like a verse from Polly Wolly Doodle-

A peanut sat on the railroad track,
It's heart was all flutter,
Down the line came Number Nine,
Toot toot peanut butter.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 08:18 PM

I saw that one, Sandra. I think you should go back and read the whole thread. LOL A laugh or two is good medicine.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 16 Jun 24 - 07:06 PM

check out the Short poems thread newly revived with this gem

6 Jun 24 - 06:28 PM The peanut sat on the railroad track, His heart was all a-flutter. The 5:15 came rolling back, Peanut…peanut butter!

https://mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=37458&messages=170&page=1
I've sent it to a few poets & reciters & have only looked at page 1, I'm NOT going to read the other pages - NO!! definitely not, I'm logging out now to do other stuff.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Jun 24 - 09:53 PM

I used to love hot pepper jam/ jelly and made it once. Does your version require separate pectin addition? Mine did.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 15 Jun 24 - 06:42 PM

BillD, you could start small with an inch square of bread with PB & a banana slice to test the waters.

gillymor, the chilli jam/jelly doesn't sound too bad although I am not sure about jalapeno.

I'm starting to think we should compile a book on the PB & variations.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 15 Jun 24 - 05:57 PM

Neil D.. I don't eat it with a spoon. I just like it with honey........and various fruit spreads.

I did buy a banana yesterday. One slice will go to trying it with PB for the first time.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 15 Jun 24 - 12:47 PM

A Mexican friend brought us some jalapeno jelly (or maybe it was jam) that his wife put up and I put a thin schmear of it on a whole wheat bagel with Trader Joes PB and it was dynamite. Not too sweet and not too spicy hot.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Neil D
Date: 15 Jun 24 - 03:52 AM

Bill D I've been eating PB and honey sandwiches all my life. Especially good on whole wheat toast. But I wouldn't mix them in a bowl and eat it with a spoon. When I was a kid I used to make PB saNDWICHES ON CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 14 Jun 24 - 05:59 PM

Yes, I agree Charmion. The coconut milk would also help to make the texture and flavour smoother.

Thai Chicken Satay with Peanut Sauce

Scroll to the end for the recipe ingredients and method.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Charmion
Date: 14 Jun 24 - 01:53 PM

Satay sauce works because it contains vinegar and hot pepper. I rather think groundnut stew would be much improved by a bit of vinegar (or lemon juice) and a solid slug of piri-piri sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 14 Jun 24 - 03:08 AM

BobL, I'll be interested in the results of your experiment. Maybe there is inspiration in satay sauce. It's creamy and mildly spicy and tangy.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: BobL
Date: 14 Jun 24 - 02:47 AM

Groundnut stew - didn't like it as a kid, partly because of the teeth-clogging texture and also because it contained okra which I hated. Adding PB to a chicken casserole gives acceptable results, but nothing special. However, inspired by this thread, I might experiment this weekend.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 14 Jun 24 - 01:16 AM

Miraculously, I found my cook book within a few seconds on the recipe book shelf. I haven't looked at it for years and I assumed it would be packed away in a storage box.

The Peoples Cook Book : Staples , Delicacies and Curiosities from the Earths Humble Kitchen, by Huguette Couffignal

I have probably made the buckwheat Kasha recipe on page 100, Succotash on p. 196, and Boston Baked Bean on p. 187 because the book opened at those pages. I think I did use it a lot because it looks well worn with food stains on many of the pages.

Under the heading of "peanut" the index shows peanut caramel, peanut oil, peanut paste (butter) and peanut soup. Ingredients for the soup (from Africa) are flour, lamb fat, chicken stock, roasted ground unsalted peanuts, chicken meat and cayenne, pepper, salt and cumin.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 01:49 PM

MaJoC, I had a similar book to the Food Aid book with some very austere recipes. I tried a few of them once but never again.

BWM, have you tried PB & marmalade? Also yum.

My Hubby has PB & marmalade sometimes and is usually reluctant to try odd combos but he has watched me eat crumpets with the tangy Old English style marmalade and cheese and somehow decided he likes it. I like a Swiss style cheese but he likes tasty Cheddar style. We have a small ruby grapefruit tree which is bending under the weight of the very large fruit at present. When they fully ripen we'll have a marmalade making session. Also yum.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: robomatic
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 01:36 PM

I only do this during Passover and I'm the only person I know who does it (or has ever done it).
NO ONE HAS TO TRY THIS. You are released from all but contemplation of this violation of all standards of human taste.
Open face: matza, peanutbutter, horseradish.
I only eat natural, unsweeetened peanut butter, crunchy if available.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 12:54 PM

PB and strawberry jam - yum!

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 13 Jun 24 - 12:47 PM

Herself's just reminded me of the ground nut stew she made once from a recipe in a Food Aid book. The recipe called for peanut butter, quite possibly as a substitute. General opinion: A waste of good meat .... even I couldn't stand it.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 11 Jun 24 - 08:21 PM

Tattie Bogle, I love chestnuts!

I think your husband might take the prize for the weirdest combo: Marmite & strawberry jam. I don't think I'll try that. :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Tattie Bogle
Date: 11 Jun 24 - 07:59 PM

PB never touches my lips! I just don’t like nuts of any sort (other than roasted chestnuts). Can’t even stand the smell of peanuts. Not allergic, just do NOT like!

Husband likes to eat marmite and strawberry jam together……

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 11 Jun 24 - 02:59 AM

I've thought about that, Helen, but PB and guac might be a bridge too far for me.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 11 Jun 24 - 01:20 AM

I tried the PB & avo. The two flavours intermingled, but to the point of not being able to taste either one separately.

Your challenge, gillymor, should you choose to accept, is to create a PB guacamole. Good luck! :-D

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 24 - 01:01 PM

Bacon & avo, maybe with tomato & lettuce - yes, aka a BLAT, but PB & avo? Is this a wind-up? gillymor, do you open your pantry and say what can I eat with PB today? :-D

Stilly, I don't know what they are called in the US but Kellog's Rice bubbles. Are they called Rice Krispies?

Sweet cases are small, round or square paper cases for holding chocolates or sweets until they set. I also have a similar, but larger, cup-cake sized silicon set.

I've never used Angelica archangelica in cooking. I know about it from my books on herbs but I don't even think I have seen it in shops or even growing in anyone's garden. I totally forgot it was in the printed recipe.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 09 Jun 24 - 11:50 AM

Helen's recipe is an illustration of how we are separated by a common language.

Rice bubbles, sweet cases, and angelica. Must be local things.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: gillymor
Date: 09 Jun 24 - 10:23 AM

I made avocado toast yesterday with whole wheat, a thin schmeer of PB and avocado slices on top, left off the garlic and evoo. Not as good as the usual AT but not bad.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 24 - 01:18 AM

Peanut Butter Honeys recipe

3/4 cup of peanut butter, 1 cup of honey. pinch of salt, 2 1/2 cups rice bubbles, glacé cherries

1. Mix together PB, honey & salt, cook over gently boiling water, stirring constantly until well blended.
2' Remover from heat, stir in rice bubbles, spoon into paper sweet cases, top each with half a glacé cherry or angelica, chill until firm.

Notes: 1. I've never put them in sweet cases. I make a slab and cut it up into bite size pieces when it is firm.

2. I've never used glacé cherries or angelica for this recipe.

3. It doesn't last very long after I have made it, even if I'm the only person eating it, although I have made batches for friends or work colleagues.

4. I found this recipe in a magazine called Family Circle in November 1980 when I was a poor starving student. I still have the pages I tore out of the magazine, tucked safely in a recipe book about chocolates, sweets and toffees.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 09 Jun 24 - 01:03 AM

I've never had a banoffee pice, never even seen one, but I keep wondering whether the PB & banana combo might also work with that. The other possible combination I've been thinking about is the PB, honey & rice bubble fudge I mentioned earlier and whether a topping of banana slices would be one step closer to heaven.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 08 Jun 24 - 11:21 PM

A snack for the kids when they were little was a banana cut into about 1/3 inch slices (crosswise) then a dab of peanut butter on each slice. I hadn't thought about that in ages.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jun 24 - 07:35 PM

My tasting plate was three one inch squares of bread with a different PB combo on each and the added incentive of the impending treat of eating the other two thirds of the bread slice with my PB & banana fave.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Bill D
Date: 08 Jun 24 - 06:25 PM

Neil D... I have mixed PB with honey. It spreads without being runny on bread. I have also seen a commercial brand of it, but didn't buy it. I do have some good maple syrup. Maybe I'll experiment.
    I wouldn't object to banana...just never bothered. Next banana perhaps... I use most banana on cereal.

There are some things listed above that I simply wouldn't try...such with mayo. Since my first PB sandwiches 80 years ago were with jam or jelly, sweet combos just became the norm.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 08 Jun 24 - 04:51 PM

Ok, so I tried three PB combinations yesterday with mixed results. I then rewarded myself with a piece of PB & banana bread.

I tend to put more Vegemite on my bread than other people anyway so I might have to repeat the experiment, but I didn't like the PB & Vegemite combination much.

I kind-of get the PB & mayo thing. I'll probably try it with a couple of other savoury ingrdients like tomato, lettuce, maybe cheese etc.

The PB & gherkin - maybe. I might try that with some other ingredients as well, possibly cheese.

I keep being reminded that peanuts are very versatile in the culinary world, sweet and/or savoury, and I also think sadly of people with peanut allergies who are denied these culinary delights. I guess cashew butter would be a good substitute.

If you haven't eaten or researched Gado Gado (Indonesian Salad with Peanut Dressing) you might like it. Hubby & I used to eat it at a local Balinese restaurant which has sadly shut down a few years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: MaJoC the Filk
Date: 07 Jun 24 - 04:44 PM

> named her pet pig "Pork Chop"

Herself was working at a farm museum. She was sat on the edge of the pig pens, and said "Hello, pork chop" to one of the piglets (who would eventually go the way of all pork --- it was a *working farm*). One of the visitors said: "Don't say that, you'll give it a complex."

I simply don't understand some English people's soppy-itis .... they can't all be channeling Marie Antoinette, surely?

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 07 Jun 24 - 01:04 PM

About marmalade, what about Jaffa Cakes? Yum!

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Charmion's brother Andrew
Date: 07 Jun 24 - 09:38 AM

... ginger marmalade on raisin bread. YUM.

... mincemeat (the Christmassy kind) on whole grain bread. Double YUM.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Neil D
Date: 06 Jun 24 - 08:15 PM

My wife and most of her family do something horrible with peanut butter. They mix it in a bowl with pancake syrup and eat it with a spoon. It isn't even real maple syrup.

Subject: RE: BS: Geographic question: PB & ...?
From: Helen
Date: 06 Jun 24 - 07:44 PM

BillD, I would have thought that caramel wouldn't work with salt until I tried it.

Maybe I should issue a challenge for everyone on this thread to try at least one PB & .. combination we would never think is appetising and report back here.

I'm planning to try the PB & mayo (and maybe also PB, mayo & horseradish) later today. I might even be brave enough to try PB & Vegemite, and PB & gherkin. I might do the whole smorgasbord, who knows?