PB & M
Written by vegoftheweek on Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 in Jams-Jellies-Spreads.
Inside The Oven: Marionberry fruit makes peanut butter fashionable. Week Links: More berry info for your reading buck.
Peanut butter and jelly has never really done it for me and I find a peanut butter sandwich on bread to be one of the most boring meals next to brown rice. However, it’s been enjoyable to make peanut butter sandwiches a little more hip and fashionable using a variety of other fruit spreads, such as raspberry. After choosing the fruit spread of choice, I dress it up even further to prepare it for the catwalk of my taste buds by using Wasa crackers or a whole wheat baguette vs. plain bread. And when I really want my peanut butter sandwich to make an impression, I use Marionberry spread.
I was introduced to Marionberry spread after a friend came back from a trip to Oregon. What exactly is a Marionberry? Although similarly sounding, it’s not the former mayor of Washington, D.C., but actually a combination of Chehalem and Olallie (commonly called “olallieberry”) berries that was concocted by G.F. Waldo with USDA-ARS in Corvallis, Oregon in 1956. It was tested extensively in the food nerd laboratory in Marion County, Oregon, hence the name. Learn more about Marionberry and how to even make your own spread after the break… (more…)