English food revisited

[richard_smedley]

Potioncat said:
> Looks like it would be a good source of Vitamin B. If I think of
> the non sweet spreads in the US, I can only come up with butter,
> peanut butter or some cheeses. And that's pretty much different
> forms of fat.

Nothing wrong with different forms of fat ;-)
My favourite spreads are:

1. Marmite & Peanut Butter
   Both together, great on toast with a nice cuppa in the morning, or last thing at night.

   Incidentally Marmite is one of a dozen different forms of Yeast Extract available in the UK. Community Yeast Extract is my favourite. Vegemite is Australian (and virtually a national dish over there). UK branches of Walmart sell an own-brand version.

Peanut butter has to be crunchy. Smooth peanut butter (like thin-cut marmalade) is an idea (like alcahol-free wine) that doesn't bare thinking about. :-/

2. Guacomole
   Avocado pears, mashed with minced onion, olive oil, white wine vinegar, salt and pepper. Many spicy variants can be made with chilli, etc.

3. Hoummus
   Cooked chickpeas, mashed with olive oil, lemon juice, tahini, garlic, salt. You can use sprouted chick peas instead of cooked, which gives a fresher, different sort of spread :-)

4. Olive tapenade
   Simply olives mashed with a little oil, vinegar & seasoning.

5. Aubergine 
   Roast an aubergine (eggplant) until soft. mash & mix with olive oil & huge quantities of garlic :-)

My children have all loved Marmite (and other yeast extracts) virtually since birth.
Apart from a little home-made jam (it's plum season at the moment) and honey, I don't really like sweet spreads.

 - Richard
   (Looking at list after long time away as thinking of reading the books again)