11 Recipes to Honor Peanut Butter

If you have a peanut allergy, or have traumatic peanut butter associations, stop reading immediately. Even flicking your eyes over this post could cause a severe reaction, because friends, today we're celebrating the spread most near and dear to our hearts: peanut butter.

On National Peanut Butter Day, we seek to do justice to this nut butter, which has been our steadfast companion. Whether you're in the culinary capital of the world, or pinching pennies in a dorm room, a PB & J tastes like home. But jelly isn't the only thing peanut butter plays well with. From soups to salads to chocolate delights, our old friend PB is practically everywhere -- which is just the way we like it. Now go forth, turn up the volume, and celebrate today in all of its glory. If you don't have a stomachache by the end, you're doing it wrong.

Thai Peanut Butter Cups by vrunka

 

 

Peanut Butter Cookies by Merrill Stubbs

 

Peanut Butter Ice Cream with Concord Grape Coulis by lisina

 

Lacitano Kale and Mint Salad with Spicy Peanut Dressing by dymnyno

 

PB & C (Peanut Butter and Cheese) Cookies by abduffy

 

Chocolate Peanut Butter Pretzel Cupcakes by AllisonRobicelli

 

Two-Bite Buckeye Cookies by Midge

 

Homemade Gluten-Free Peanut Sauce by PhoebeLapine

 

Salted Double Chocolate Peanut Butter Cookies by Food Blogga

 

Yam and Peanut Stew by Gena Hamshaw

 

Homemade Peanut Butter Cups by Carey Nershi