Peanut Butter Cucumber Sandwich, exclusively Skirt in the Kitchen
There won’t be a show of hands in applause for a peanut butter cucumber sandwich. It might be considered lunch packed for the park for a chess match between two elderly men. Maybe it’s what their mothers made them when they were back in their years as lads. It’s not today’s sandwich for the modern generation of our youth, what they’d pick and choose to eat.
It’s a healthy sandwich as long as it’s got 100% whole wheat in the grain, a fiber-filled hearty bread with oat flakes over it’s brown top of each bread slice. For the inside, there’s home-grown green butter lettuce and licorice and the garden cucumbers that you’d normally pickle for canning dills. Does it sound old-fogey? Call me ancient in my youthful state because I like this absurdity in a sandwich. I’m not craving this as though there’s a baby on board; yet, I find it surprisingly good– the mayonnaise and peanut butter swirled with the spread of a butter knife, then vegetables stuck to it. It’s food-glue. Mayo and peanut butter with the ridiculous amount of chopped nuts, making it a crunchy chew, can actually turn out pretty tasty and satisfying.
Here’s the history on this sandwich: It comes from my mom. Back up further, I’ll tell you the other sandwich that I could not stand or tolerate as a child that her great-great-great grandmother mother made for my brothers, sister, and me during Vacation Bible School one summer– grated carrots and dark raisins mixed in peanut butter on both slices of home-baked white bread spread with heavily layered mayonnaise–Yuck? At least we got to sit on the community church lawn outdoors in the sun; plus, we had an apple or a banana and potato chips.
When our half-day was at a close, I’d fly in the door with my siblings after sandwiches were nicely thrown into trash barrels on the church grounds, and the wonderful smell of fried chicken was on the stove at home. She baked us strawberry shortcake with its sassy red syrup from the garden strawberries that our parents raised, and a pan of homemade vanilla cake. She thought we had such the appetites for eating a second lunch. We were starving great kids, and she knew it.
You know what I’ll have to do, right?– Revise a “modern” sandwich of what she slapped together for us that week for when we had to memorize our Bible verses. It’s my job to make it a great sandwich, and I’ll get paid big bucks doing it.
Spread peanut butter over mayonnaise on just 1 slice of bread, not on both slices; otherwise, the sandwich will be too overloaded with the domination of peanut butter in vegetables.
Peel or don’t peel, but slice lengthwise…
Don’t forget the butter lettuce.
It’s actually nice.
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