Peanut Butter

Jif, Captain Crunch and Skippy...the three mainstays of peanut butter in my growing up years. All creamy. Not crunchy. If I wanted crunchy peanuts, I would eat them out of the shell. Peanut butter and jelly. On Wonder Bread. Couldn't get much better. With the exception of maybe dippin' a piece of celery or carrot directly into the peanut butter jar. And in the absence of dippin' sticks, I could always dip my finger into the jar.

Thought I knew my peanut butter until my sweetie started me on the journey of organic food. Some org. pb's are salted, some not. My experiments with adding salt didn't work. And then there's all of that oil floating on the top. What a mess. The way around this is to scoop out the contents into a large mixing bowl, re-emulsify and then put back into the jar. Takes about 5 minutes.

After what seemed to be an interminable period of tasting and testing for the ultimate pb, my sweetie brought home a jar of Maranatha creamy & roasted peanut butter. Just the right consistency when mixed with the right amount of salt.

Now, whenver one jar is opened the grocery list is automatically addended with a request for another jar of Marantha.