FavorFlavs #38

We all have them: favorite flavors, ingredients, and kitchen tools. FavorFlavs we always find ourselves reaching for again and again. These are ours.

Peanut butter

In case you hadn’t noticed yet: there’s a full-blown peanut butter hype going on. But of course, we loved it long before the hype.

That jar we all grew up with.

Peanut butter is the ultimate mix of basic, comfort, and a pleasing mouthfeel. And therefore a guaranteed classic on bread, and far beyond.

And all those homemade peanut butters+ now filling the shelves are delicious in their own right: with chocolate, bacon, chili peppers, sea salt, or caramel; or with chocolate, bacon, chili peppers, sea salt, and caramel.

But as wonderful as it is that we can now put the fanciest versions in our baskets – peanut butter with pineapple and rum, anyone? – when midnight cravings hit, we always reach for that one jar again. That jar we all grew up with.

Plain peanut butter.

Available at the (neighborhood) supermarket.