Peanut Butter Raver

I haven’t always been a peanut butter fan. Maybe peanuts on their own, but not really peanut butter. I grew up on Lily’s, Ludy’s, and several other locally made pan-de-sal buddies. They are all rich and smooth and creamy and can put the H on any kid’s ADHD.

As my taste eventually evolved into looking for texture, I found a liking towards the chunky kind of PB. It is a bane for me that the only available ones with really crunchy chunks are the imported kind like Jiffy, Skippy and Keebler. Much to my disappointment, there has been a recent recall of all US peanut products because of the salmonella content found by the food authorities.

And as if by serendipity, while my sister and I were shopping at one Pan de Manila outlet, she reached over to grab Pan de Manila’s Crunchy Peanut butter. This gave a fantastic alternative – a locally-made uber-chunky peanut butter which is a good deal for PhP 95 for a 330-gram jar. In my opinion, this PB is to pan de sal as Sonny is to Cher. Yeah, I know Cher and Sonny broke up, but I just can’t seem to end my new found relationship with this crunchy PB.

Once you open the jar, you’ll be overwhelmed by just how much peanut chunks you’ll see. For every spoonful, you might just be able to find perhaps a hundred morsels of crunchy peanuts suspended in a just-right sweet peanut butter cream.

It’s so good that it makes me forget about my diet. I’m raving for you, love!