[Sca-cooks] Peanut butter and???
Elaine Koogler
ekoogler1 at comcast.net
Wed Aug 9 11:43:33 PDT 2006
lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> When my daughter was about three, i used to feed her...
>
> ...peanut butter, lettuce, Bac-Os, tomato, pickle relish, on whole wheat.
>
> I don't recall how i came up with this, but i have to confess, once
> again, that it was probably inspired by my familiarity with
> non-American food. I'm sure she would repudiate it completely now
> that she's 25 :-)
>
> While peanut butter is for sweets in the US (and spread with jam on
> bread it's sweet), in Africa and South East Asia it is for savories -
> in Indonesia, in sauce for satay (grilled meat on a skewer), mixed
> with ground hot red chilis as a sauce for fruit; in Thailand in Pra
> Ram (meat in coconut-peanut sauce over kangkung (substituted by
> spinach in the US)) and in Gaeng Masaman (beef or chicken (and often
> potatoes) in peanut sauce); in parts of Africa in hot spicy soups and
> stews.
>
> So, again, i think of peanut butter, as i think of cinnamon, as being
> for savories rather than sweets.
>
And then, of course, here in the south, we have peanut soup, which is
usually made with crunchy peanut butter, cream and other seasonings,
along with bacon. So-o-o-o good!!
Kiri
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