What is more appropriate for a guy like Ryan than a good ol' fashioned PB&J. When I was in college, PB&J was a bible study called "Pizza, Beer and Jesus". But today, PB&J is a throw back to its original meaning: peanut butter and jelly.
Ingredients
- Two slices bread
- Peanut butter (smooth or crunchy...your choice)
- Jelly, preserves, jam...whatever you've got in the fridge!
While we're at it, maybe this is a good educational opportunity to clarify the meanings between those three types of fruit spread products:
Jelly - as its name suggests, a gelatin. No chunks of fruit present
Preserves - this is generally fruit that is being preserved within the context of a sugary jelly. The chunks of fruit are generally more whole than you will find them in the jam counterpart where they can be cut or blended up into smaller pieces
Jam - a cross between jelly and preserves really. Chunks of fruit present but not in such large pieces as you will find in preserves. This is my personal favorite.
Directions
- Place your two slices of bread on a flat surface
- Plunge a butter knife into your PB and scoop a generous amount, spreading it evenly on the bread. Note: for easier spreading, one can very lightly toast the bread first
- Clean peanut butter remnants off knife and then use to scoop a desired amount of fruit spread product (hopefully jam!) and spread it evenly onto second slice of bread.
- Press slices of bread together such that the PB and J make contact with each other
- Optional: slice sandwich in half for ease of consumption or, in this case, to better show the layers of PB & J!
Worried about that jam saturating the bread before you even get a chance to eat it? No problem! Just have two thinner layers of PB on each piece of bread and put the layer of jam between them. The PB will seal the J from making the bread soggy.
| It is okay to be a little messy! |
Unacceptable forms of PB & J:
I like this one. But I do feel like there should be mention of different types of bread options and what about other twist such as adding bananas, or is that to hard for Ryan?
ReplyDeleteYou and I can have a discussion/debate about that if you'd like but, as you mentioned, I was aiming for a more simplified recipe. I wanted to set Ryan up for success, not failure.
ReplyDeleteGoober is awesome. It is also simple, if that's what you're going for.
ReplyDeleteGoober = Unacceptable
ReplyDeleteChunky or creamy? Surely an important argument.
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