Why RiceAndPeanutButter?

"So... what's with the name?  Why rice and peanut-butter?" is the question I am asked most often by new visitors to RiceAndPeanutButter.  I started blogging just before I headed down to Oregon for my second season at Crystal Peaks Youth Ranch.  I wanted a means of keeping people updated about my ordinary, mundane, every-day, hum-drum life.  Don't get me wrong - I love adventure!  But life's greatest moments are also its most ordinary moments.  You know... like eating a peanut-butter sandwich with your best friend during recess in third grade.  Somehow, I wanted to capture that feeling - the flavour of the ordinary - in my blog.

For five years after I returned from South Korea with a bizarre gastrointestinal condition, I had to eliminate bread from my diet... no peanut-butter sandwiches for me, and rice bread is... yuck.  But I love peanut-butter!  The world's greatest comfort food, it evokes all sorts of nostalgic emotion.  How else is one to eat peanut-butter except peanut-butter and toast and peanut-butter sandwiches?  On apples, celery, and bananas, and by the spoonful - yes.  But I also started eating it with rice.  I'll even let you in on the secret family recipe:

Rice and Peanut-Butter

2 cups short-grain brown rice (cooked)

1/4 cup peanut-butter

Microwave for 3 minutes.  Stir and enjoy.

And so www.riceandpeanutbutter.blogspot.com was born, because life is chock-full of ordinary, extraordinary, beautiful, and boring moments, and we're fools if we forget that each moment, no matter how mundane, contains its own beauty.

"Bless the moment... and the years will be their own blessing.  

Many of us live life in a rush because it allows us to believe we are going somewhere."

-Jacob the Baker-