BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches

Subject: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Helen
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:30 AM

Hi all,

I had yet another conversation today about the joys of peanut butter sandwiches with various combinations of other ingredients.

It struck me how many of these info-sharing peanut-butter-celebration conversations I have had in my life, and because Mudcat is a haven of diversity, especially when it comes to food, I thought I'd ask (yet another) "what is your favourite" question.

So, what is your favourite ingredient(s) which you put on sandwiches with peanut butter.

My all-out favourite combination is peanut butter and lettuce - especially your common or garden old fashioned lettuce, crispy, crunchy lettuce.

After that there is:
pb & honey
pb & jam
pb & tomato slices
pb & celery & sultanas

For my taste it has to be crunchy pb.

Have we done this topic before? I know someone (Susan/WYSIWYG maybe) recommended pb/hot dog/browned fried onions in another thread. Haven't tried that yet.

My husband staunchly refuses to try pb & lettuce sandwiches. I tell him he doesn't know what he is missing, but it doesn't sway his "skepticaemic" resolve.

Someone I knew a long time ago was listening to a conversation among a few people about pb-&-? sandwiches and she said: "Don't you like peanut butter? You seem to need to disguise the taste."

Helen

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:41 AM

Being vegan, I'm always looking for variations in sandwiches

Try peanut butter and soy sauce. Unusual but great.

I also like peanut butter and peach when its in season

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:43 AM

Golden syrup

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 07:45 AM

Dairylea cream cheese blends well with peanut butter, but my favourite was always the yolk of a boiled egg - at the point where it is set, but not yet hard, mashed with enough peanut butter to bind it all together. Put it in a soft white bread roll.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:00 AM

Neat, with a pinch of sal

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:01 AM

Sandwiches:

Peanut butter and mashed banana and sultanas


Peanut butter, cream cheese and dates


peanut butter, tomato, lettuce and celery salt....

Snacks:

sliced apple spread with peanut butter...

celery sticks filled with peanut b.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: A Wandering Minstrel
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:02 AM

oops that should have read salt! sorry Sal!

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:03 AM

Chewy and not for the timid but peanut butter and jellyfish is fine.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Sweetfia
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:09 AM

Urgh! How can you eat peanut butter?!

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,harlowpoet
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:34 AM

And what's that other stuff, Mcgraph you can have with it. You know in the supermarket, over by the jam?

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Tracey Dragonsfriend
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:35 AM

With a spoon, straight from the jar....

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 08:38 AM

RAW onions with the dogs. Really must try it-- not going to taste like dogs or PB or onions.

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Sooz
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:00 AM

With sliced banana - not mashed (When they've been in a rucksack for 5 or 6 miles they have deveoped their own texture very nicely)
The PB must be crunchy

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:32 AM

...and mayonnaise

...and Miracle Whip

...and cheap table syrup

...and shredded carrots

...and chocolate squares (semi- or bitter- sweet is best)

...and regular butter

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:40 AM

PB, ketchup and horseradish.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:41 AM

A peanut sittin' on a railroad track,
His heart was all a flutter.
Train came roaring round the bend,
Toot! toot! peanut butter!

Oh it ain't gonna rain no more, no more... (etc)

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: ranger1
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:47 AM

PB and velveeta (a rectangle of processed cheese product, for those of you who aren't familiar with it)

PB and nutella (or any other chocolate spread)

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 09:47 AM

1. fresh bread with lotsa' butter, a tiny scrape of Vegemite & lotsa' crunchy PB (yummy yum, a childhood treat)

2. PB & Tahini & dates & banana (& optional honey) sandos on thick barley bread, available in a wonderful vegetarian take-away shop. On the odd accasion that I forget my lunch they are my normal buy, & are very yummy.

Thanks for the good ideas in the other posts.

sandra (looking forward to more ideas!!)

(ps. I make my own PB - just whack the roasted peanuts with red skins in the blender on coffee bean speed & grind them down. I tip the crushed peanuts in a bowl & add some oil cos the blender can't crush them enough to extract the oil as the fancy machines do in the shop or factory.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:08 AM

MARMITE, peanut butter and smoked mackerel, or hanster or ferret.
eric

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Scoville
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:10 AM

Cheese, dill pickle, or lettuce.

I once got a peanut butter and liverwurst sandwich that my dad forgot to take to work (I don't particularly recommend that combination but it obviously didn't kill me).

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Peace
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:12 AM

Peanut butter, jam, lettuce and banana.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: freda underhill
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:25 AM

together? aagghh

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,Hard Man
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 10:53 AM

peanut butter and iron filings

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Grab
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:21 AM

Bovril.

Chicken (with meat in sandwiches, or stirred into gravy for proper meal).

Cheese (I have been known to spread it on slices of cheese, without the assistance of bread). Cheddar is good, but Grandma Singleton's Tasty Lancashire is best. Americans will have to make do with whatever plastic passes for cheese over there - so far as I could see in Michigan, there's nothing worthy of the name.

Come to that, I'm not so keen on American peanut butter either. Best in Britain IMHO is Duerr's. British types tend to have more salt and less sugar.

Graham.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: mack/misophist
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:21 AM

Peanut butter and mustard. To cut through the earthy taste of the peanut butter, you need a spare, sharp tasting mustard with no 'earthy' flavour. French's is the best.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:26 AM

Peanut Butter on a rice cake with banana and honey...Yummmm!
Peanut Butter straight from the jar with a big spoon...Yummmm!
Peanut Butter and any kind of Jam...Yummmm!

Okay, here's the deal, I NEVER had peanut butter at home. Never. My mother was a wonderful cook, but she didn't like anything remotely sweet, and I guess peanut butter was in that catagory. Not until I went away to camp and found the peanut butter and jelly table that was provided for campers who didn't like whatever was being served (this was an enlightened camp, bless em) and were given the choice of making their own sandwiches, was I introduced to this heavenly substance.

Coming later to peanut butter means I am making up for lost time. Just writing this will send me to the cupboard for another peanut butter fix (my second of the day).

But I do prefer crunchy, which no one seems to be mentioning. There are definite preferential rifts on this, I assure you..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:28 AM

With real butter, of course.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Wesley S
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:38 AM

Yes - Peanut Butter { crunchy } and MAYO.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:41 AM

Peanut butter and crisps.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: freightdawg
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:46 AM

I have a friend who loves smearing peanut butter on his pancakes.

And he is still my friend.

Freightdawg

(p.s. never feed a dawg peanut butter. It 'tickt to the 'oof of you' mouf and you have to 'ick for hou's jus' to get 'id of the nas'y ''uff.)

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:52 AM

we;'ve had two dogs who both LOVED peranut butter - both would beg for it in the same way - by using the normal "begging" styles PLUS imitating the roof-of-mouth-licking motion they would undergo after receiving the PB.

(they were both convinced that if they raised their heads far enough and stuck their tongues out far enough they would be able to lick it off the roof of their mouths in one go.)

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:52 AM

Hey Freightdawg, don't knock that one till you've tried it...and if you still don't like it (put a little honey into the mix), you can always mail it to me!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: el ted
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:53 AM

Concrete.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: JenEllen
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:55 AM

I've a preference for 'real' peanut butter. Our local grocery has a peanut mill that mooshes to your preference, but has nothing in it other than the peanuts. It's the best. That said:
PB and real butter (no margarine, REAL butter)
PB and bologna (the more nitrites the better)
PB with raisins and ruffled potato chips
and a recent favourite: a sandwich made from PB cookies and vanilla ice cream (hey, it's still a sandwich!)

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 12:22 PM

Good Grief!! In all this, no one has mentioned the Basic, Universal, Classic, Ultimate, Food-of the Gods ingredient!!????

The manna that fed the Israelites as they wandered in the desert for forty years, and the ambrosia favored by the Gods of Olympus was

[Flourish of Trumpets!!]

The Peanut Butter and Grape Jelly Sandwich.   

So much grape jelly that it squirts out around the edges and everything in the immediate vicinity turns Royal Purple.

(I thought this Fundamental Knowledge was built into the genes. . . .)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Bill D
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 12:44 PM

Don...that is, of course..CONCORD grape jelly!

and for the specialists...
a mixture of crunchy PB, Almond butter, and Leatherwood honey from Tasmania...on a special multi-grain bread! If it's fresh baked, it is Nirvana...

I also like PB and syrup or with other honeys...especially some nice ones from New Zealand...and Mesquite honey from the US....sorry, no onions or mustard for me. I know several people who add banana, but I just never got into it.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 12:52 PM

Oh Don Don Don, you MUST know that some things are just a GIVEN!..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: SueB
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 01:21 PM

If you have not had a peanut butter and bacon sandwich you have not lived!

Also, mix more or less equal parts peanut butter and peach yogurt into a smooth creamy mixture, awesome for dipping fruit into.

Off to fry some bacon!

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 01:42 PM

One doesn't need to mention breathing unless the air is foul, and peanut butter and grape jelly sandwiches are air.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 01:55 PM

The best thing to have with crunchy peanut butter, in my book, is MORE peanut butter!

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: SueB
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 02:03 PM

No one has yet mentioned a staple of my childhood, the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwich, affectionately known as the Fluffer-Nutter.

Here's a good one:
Spread one slice bread with PB
Spread the other with cranberry sauce
On the PB slice arrange chunks or slices of canned pineapple
Top with the cranberry sauce slice.

Also, PB and green chile jam, or PB and jalapeno jelly.

A PB and tabasco sandwich folded over is good in a pinch.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Clinton Hammond
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 02:16 PM

Blech.... marshmallow fluff... almost as gross as Gnutella...

And French's is NEVER the best mustard for anything but avoiding...

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: GUEST,MMario
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 02:18 PM

ohgawd. two things in a row I agree with clinton on.

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Michael
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 02:46 PM

In UK the best bought Peanut Butter is made by SUMA- just ground peanuts-with or without salt. Available from wholefood shops etc.
Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Don Firth
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 03:16 PM

My apologies to all. I should have known. Peanut butter and grape jelly (Concord, of course!) is to humans as water is to fish.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: wysiwyg
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 04:01 PM

Thai peanut sauce in a pinch.

Depending on desired quantity:
Good sloppy squirt of barbecue sauce or as much as you want to make
PB, creamy or chunky, a heaping spoonful or a big ole gob for a large batch
Five-spice powder or equivalent
Black bean sauce or soy sauce to taste, maybe a little fish sauce or a mashed anchovy

If no barbecue sauce, ketchup, cloves, brown sugar.

We carry a tube of squeeze PB in the car. Hot Chinese becomes Thai with a little PB stirred right in when the dish is served. Hide it tho-- the staff will be offended AND think you are insane, but really, their sesame sauce for cold noodle would work just as well if they could understand what you are SAYING!

~Susan

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Little Robyn
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 04:02 PM

Yesterday I had peanut butter with mashed pumpkin and marmalade in my sandwich. It's yummy. But I only had smooooth so I don't know how it goes crunchy.
Robyn

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: JohnInKansas
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:42 PM

Actually the "ultimate peanut butter sandwich," with just enough "tooth" to feel good as well as taste right, and just enough "juice" to keep the PB from sticking to the roof of your mouth, is with those "bread and butter" pickle slices that grandma used to make.

Dill pickles add too much of their own flavor, - that clashes with the PB. The B&B pickles just blend and bring out the best of both.

John

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 19 Apr 04 - 11:53 PM

Don - Grape jelly is not widely available in the UK... I prefer my own home made sloe/blackberry/someother berry I've forgotten jam.

But I do agree that the lighter and juicier the jam/jelly, the better it is for de-clagging the roof of the mouth.

Ever seen a cat trying to lick PB off its face? Try it, it's good for a half hour of knicker wettingly funny entertainment. Cat gets a good workout, some PB and you get clean underwear.

In a bid to make two sandwiches late one night, I spread jam on one piece of bread and put corned beef on another slice of bread, leaving two slices bare of all except butter. In my confused condition, I put the wrong bits together, ending up with a bread and butter sandwich, and a corned beef and jam sandwich. Not wanting to waste food, I ate them both up and have been hooked on the latter ever since!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Peanut butter & ?? sandwiches
From: Amergin
Date: 20 Apr 04 - 12:07 AM

I like it with huckleberry jam.... ;)

my grampa likes it with mayonnaise and onions....but he's an odd one.