Ever had the snack “ants on a log?” It generally consists of celery filled with peanut butter and neatly topped with raisins, so that it looks like, not surprisingly, ants crawling on a log. I like celery, I like peanut butter, and I like celery with peanut butter, but I was never a big fan of adding the “ants” or raisins, to this treat. Now I know why.
When I was on Israel, I bought some peanut butter to take back with me to India, as protein is a little bit hard to come by here. I opened it one night when we were having adai (sp?) which are kind of like thin, flat, pancakes made of wheat and various pulses (I think). I wasn’t so crazy about the sambar option that night, so I put some peanut butter on an adai, and added a few pieces of chocolate as well. It was delicious. I offered some to Geetha who was sitting and eating with me at the time, but she refused, on the grounds that she doesn’t like to mix her American and Indian foods. All I can say is: she’s missing out.
Okay, so the point of that story was that I opened up my jar of peanut butter. I thought about adding it to my castle of stainless steel containers that is surrounded by a moat of water in a larger stainless steel plate, but I figured Skippy must be pretty well sealed. Well, I figured wrong. When I screwed open my peanut butter today, ants were crawling all over the lid and at least ten had gotten stuck in the peanut butter. With a couple of pieces of celery, I could have served up some delicious ants on a log. Maybe I should have taken a real log and given it a try?
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