Peanut Butter and Chocolate Chips

Last year in October I wrote a post about how I like to slather sweet breads with peanut butter and place chocolate chips on top. In that prior post I noted how my wife had complained that I was eating all the chocolate chips leaving a near bare cupboard when she decided to do some baking. That post must have hit a cord, because for Christmas I received several pounds of chocolate chips, although not from her. Obviously, other relatives were sufficiently concerned that my spouse would put the household chocolate chips under lock and key so I was provided with my own stash—and lock and key to contain part of my stash too. I also received two large jars of peanut butter.

Fast forward several months to present time. Earlier this week my wife was cleaning out the freezer and came across some pumpkin, so she decided to make pumpkin bread. Not wanting her baking effort to go to waste I now eat the bread. And, of course, I tend to top it with peanut butter and chocolate chips. Since I am using chocolate chips gifted to me, they are my chips. I have let her use some for baking, since I am generally a recipient of that effort, but being my chocolate chips she can no longer complain about me draining the household supply. 

Pumpkin bread with peanut butter and chocolate chips
made and consumed on June 8, 2017

Yet, her ingenuity has evolved. Let me provide two examples. On this past Tuesday, as she saw me lathering a piece with peanut butter and adding chocolate chips, she says: Oh, are you ruining the bread?” I did not have the heart to say I was improving the bread, that would have led to a nasty smirk. But, the second comment was even better. Last night she commented, as I was eating a piece with my normal toppings of peanut butter and chocolate chips: “I know someone who is not watching his carbs.”   Even though I have been around the block a few times in my life, I was still surprised at her comment. After all, if I were to eat the peanut butter and chocolate chips together and without being on the pumpkin bread, it would be rather messy, not to mention difficult.  A chocolate bar slathered with peanut butter would work, For the record, one serving of peanut butter is two tablespoons, and has eight carbs, and a serving of chocolate chips is one tablespoon at nine carbs.  I don't know what the bread contains, but as I advance in age I have cut back on my slices of sweet bread in the evening.

However, I really do think she was sufficiently impressed with my hunk of bread, covered with peanut butter (“you must have a half-inch of peanut butter on that piece!) and chocolate chips that she asked me pause about partway through eating my concoction so she could snap a photograph with her I-phone. Being the compliant husband, I do what my wife says. She snapped the photo, but I don’t know if she placed it on a social media page or sent it to someone. But, I do know she certainly would not do it to make fun of me or to as a put-down. After all, she is my spouse.  And she makes great sweet breads, which can only be improved by peanut butter and chocolate chips.