I've found that tahini makes a nice sandwich if sweetened up a bit. My two current preferences are tahini and fresh clover honey or tahini and maple syrup. Both combinations are also great on toast (and I can get tahini at my local grocery store in the organic section).
I flipped by a tv talk show and saw the guest using an angel food pan to help cut the corn off a cob. Just stand the corn vertically on the centre part of the pan, hold the top of the cob and cut down with a serrated knife. The kernels just fall into the pan. Of course, it is only worth messing up the pan if you are doing a bunch of corn.
-Rob A>
I worked with a fellow who brought waffle sandwiches everyday for lunch. Never bread. He toasted up two Eggo buttermilk waffles, and mad a sandwich with them... PB&J, bologna, ham and cheese, tuna salad...didn't matter - just on waffles. He even used the typical condiments - mayo, mustard depending on the fill.
Definitely Chen Kenichi. The ultimate classic Iron Chef.
Thats a sweet strawberry. Reminds me of a rather sour pickle I bit into a while back:
What!? This is so right/wrong -- I love it. Kudos to this sandy innovator. And you are 100% correct. A patty melt is a sandwich; a waffle sandwich is a sandwich; a burger is something else.
By the way, as much as I enjoy sandwiches, waffles are best enjoyed in taco form. Toast some eggos, add syrup and fold. They go well with other "w" foods, such as white wine.
Hey - cool! I just found this stuff recently too and used it for my Kid's birthday!
Emily Bazelon of Slate did a nicely evenhanded column on this topic:
To what Wendy said, I would add that it's not possible to prevent a three-year-old from eating somebody else's food.
I am not sure why I'm even justifying the last two posts with a response, but I guess I'll chalk them up to ignorance. I can see how people without kids are less aware of the problem.
A. More kids are more allergic to nuts, especially peanuts, than they were twenty years ago or whenever you were in school.
B. Lots of kids are so allergic to nuts that they could go into anaphylactic (i.e. deadly, throat-closing) shock by being around someone eating peanut butter, or by using the water fountain after someone who ate peanut butter touched the handle. It doesn't matter how careful they are about not eating nuts.
I hope this makes it clear to anyone who is wondering. The schools are trying to protect kids from dying.
--Wendy Burton, RN BSN
@missbhavens
no you are not the only one. i could go on for hours about the little freedoms being stripped from our "land of the free", but it wouldn't serve any purpose on this site.
i often wonder how these people who make these rediculous rules think they survived going through school themselves without them back in the day.
solution: if your kid has a nut allergy then you pack their lunch everyday, tell them not to eat other kid's food, and not to share food. problem solved and no one else inconvenienced. why is it the school's responsibility to restrict everyone's diet for a few individuals??
Umm...these are all really cool solutions to a nut-butter problem, but I'm astounded that no one has expressed shock and/or outrage that a school is actually banning certain foods.
I don't have kids, but I went to school, for sure.
How long has this been going on?
And why am I the only person who is shocked and/or outraged?
I know in our school district, all nuts and nut butters are banned from school lunches to grade 8. I actually have a call into the school to find out about the sunflower butter...... I sure hope they allow it.
I'm a huge fan of peanut butter, but I've been drifting away from it after I discovered Nuts to You, a Canadian company that makes organic nut and seed butters. In terms of a nut-free butter, I'm a huge fan of their pumpkin seed butter (although I'm not sure it would be allergen-free if it's made in the same place that makes nut butters) but if you CAN eat nuts, the company also makes "Mystery" butters, which are combinations of two or more nuts/seeds. YUM.
I don't know if almond butter is allowed, but that's a really tasty nutbutter. It's on the pricey side, but if your kid is going through nut withdrawls, it's a great alternative. The whole separating oil, need to stir it in thing is not a major problem. It's pretty easy to get it all incorporated and it's well worth not to have all those fillers and hydrogenated oils mucking up the jar.
The only problem with sunflower seed butter is that it tastes exactly like sunflower seeds. Yuck.
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