Peanut Butter

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Yea, I always keep cocoa on hand too. I might want some cocoa, the hot drink. I don't just heat chocolate milk, got to have the real thing. I've been thinking about that butter for along time. seams like your body would like natural stuff better then chemicals. a year or two after that they started saying that very thing. someone is reading my mind. I need a foil hat.

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A recipe for purists

One large jar of crunchy peanut butter
One teaspoon

Take one heaping spoonful of peanut butter
Pop into mouth
Repeat as necessary


This was handed down from my father

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A slight modification to my crunchy PB, honey, and coconut concoction: toss in and mix a few raisins. Makes it even healthier!

Note: the purist's "direct spoon" method may be employed in the absence of honey grahams. This application has been approved by the National Peanut Butter Federation.

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(peanut sauce), to enrich your bbq meat.

Fry 1 or 2 or 3 garlic tones and a thin cut onion in vegetable oil.
Add to your taste (half a cup) sweet soja sauce (Ketjap: Indonesian).
Add something like 360 gram (0.75 lb) peanut butter and stir well.
Boil slowly for a short time. Eventually it has to be nice mixture.
If the mixture is to fluid, add more peanut butter and stir.
If it is to thick, add just enough water and stir well.
If you like you may add some ginger too.

This the only sauce that I like at the bbq.

NB: this probably is horrible English. Please correct me to improve ;-))

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Your English is fine - at least as far as I'm concerned. In the states, we all speak differently anyway, so who would notice? There are New Yorkers, Texans, Californians (who have several dialects within there own state), people from Alabama, Maine, and many others. Then you have those in Britain who roll their eyes everytime anyone from the US opens their mouth! :o

True story: I moved to Cheyenne Wyoming after being born in South Texas. Although I had lived in California a couple of years, the largest portion has been spent in south Texas. Knowing that we have a tendency to have our own dialect, I worked very hard on speaking correctly (?). First time we went into a fast food restaurant, it took us three times for the young man to understand my husband enough to know what he was ordering. A few months later (when I was absolutely positive that my English and grammar were totally correct), I walked into a lawyer's office where I was going to do some temp work. I intoduced myself. He asked where I was from. I gave him the name of the company. He said, ''I mean where are you from? Where do you live?'' ''Cheyenne, I told him.'' ''Okay,'' he says. ''Let me try one more time: Where in Texas did you move here from?'' So here I was in a country where everyone was suppose to speak the same language, and they could barely understand me. Years later, I go to Germany.....now can you imagine how those Germans felt when I was speaking my limited German with a Texas accent?:chatter :o

The morale to all this, Lex, is that I am totally amazed at your English and how well you do. I have a tremendous respect for anyone who attempts a language other than their native tongue. And to do it as well as you do (I do forget that it is not your native tongue), well, that is simply just awesome!

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yep, I agree with that, Suz. same thing happened to me in DC. I'd open my mouth and someone would say, your from Oklahoma aren't you? what did i say? I have no idea. I'd give you an example, but I can't write can't and it look any different. cain't vs cant there that's close
It's when they use different words for the same thing, that I have trouble.
like, chip-in or pitch-in for pot-luck :nope

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I will not mention the subject anymore. I suppose that if you don't understand me, you will tell me. :wub

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Orginally posted by Lex Meuldijk
I suppose that if you don't understand me, you will tell me. :wub

for sure---I mean, yes. :yep

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I just have to add this while we are on the subject of peanut butter - came across this in my backpacking magazine:

Take 2 teaspoons (or was it Tablespoons?) before breakfast to ward off flatulence (gas - OK - I am trying to be very humble here - will have to try it!)

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When they were small and I was working way too much, I used to make several varieties of pb sandwiches assembly line style. The most favorite of all among my kids and their classmates were the cockroach sandwiches, served most often with "bug juice" as follows:

Mix creamy peanut butter with "plumped" dark raisins in any proportion you wish. Spread on bread and cut in any shape you desire (I used a lot of cookie cutters and when in a hurry just used a large knife to halve or quarter) Wrap in plastic wrap, fill a plastic freezer bag with them and freeze.

When ready to use, put them in a lunch bag with a container of "bug juice" (green coolade) and by lunch time the sandwiches are thawed and the bug juice still cool.

My guys had all their friends totally convinced we had monthly cockroach roundups at our house so we could make those sandwiches. I guess it was fortunate the teaches never fell for it.

Lots of Fun!

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Hi All
My wife dunks her banna into peanut butter and enjoys it that way.:o

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Here's one for No-Bake Chocolate Oatmeal Cookies

2 c. sugar
4 TBS. cocoa (or 2 squares Unsweetened choc)
1/2 tsp salt
1 stick butter
1/2 c. milk

Bring all to a boil and boil one minute stirring constantly. Remove from heat and add:

1/2 c. peanut butter (crunchy is best)
1 tsp vanilla
3 c. quick cooking oatmeal

Stir all together and drop from tablespoons onto large sheet of wax paper. If mixture hardens or thickens before all are put on wax paper, add a little more milk or water.