What is your favorite spread?

lee_loreya · Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 30 Location: France

There's nothing easier than some sort of paste spread on bread, crackers, fruit,...or eaten straight from the jar.
(Jam is not counted as a spread, it needs a whole new poll to determine which jam is your fave)

brighidsdaughter · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 233 Location: Canton, TX USA

Oooh! Wickedly good choices -- couldn't make this easy for us, could you? Very Happy

Trying to select a favorite was fun, while munching on toast (with plain butter) and drinking my cafe au lait this morning at breakfast. But no, my vote was not for plain butter.

Rainey · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject:

Don't know that I have a favorite spread but this seems like a good enough spot to say I bought myself a butter "bell" -- one of those earthenware thingies that holds butter upside down in a crock of water to keep it at a spreadable consistency. It's terrific!

I've eyed them in catalogues at $20 (US) and up. When I saw one for $10 at a Whole Foods market, I snatched it up and we're really enjoying it by effortlessly spreading butter on freshly baked bread. Yum! Wink

swan · Posted: Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:28 pm Post subject:

plain butter goes under some of the others, doesn't it?? Butter and Nutella, butter and peanutbutter...I consider 'butter' as a nice little sheet for what comes on top of the bread...so now what to vote?!?!? Very Happy

lee_loreya · Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 30 Location: France

Sometimes butter can be anything but plain.
You got the Butter with sea salt, with Sel de Guérande or Fleur de Sel which has a taste of iode which is delicious. But it's true that some shameful combinations such as toasted brioche+butter+PB+nutella are just as good.
Choices, choices...

Erin · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 3:38 pm Post subject:

That was hard! I picked Nutella, but it was only because I couldn't choose from among the likes of hummus and tapenade. I love them too much.
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melinda · Joined: 01 Oct 2004 Posts: 256 Location: Richmond, VA, usa

I'm probably the only one voting for chestnut spread....guess i'm so captivated by it because it's so hard for me to find & is something I associate with being in Paris.....nutella is a co-first choice

David · Posted: Mon Jan 03, 2005 5:27 pm Post subject:

I cast my vote for tapenade, being a bit of a fixation of mine. While living in Australia I was introduced to the "glory" of vegemite! Took a bit of getting used to but I ended up quite liking that savoury spread----really good on English muffins mixed with a bit of peanut butter> (Is that sacrilege??)
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Sarape · Posted: Tue Jan 04, 2005 3:41 pm Post subject: Re: What is your favorite spread?