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A PBJ so good you will want to sit down with your kids and eat it too! It’s grilled and made with homemade peanut butter and strawberry sauce on sourdough!

Summertime! I can’t get enough of it you guys.

I’m literally exhausted everyday but I would not have it any other way. My kids are loving it and I am too! My kids are on an extended break from any form of technology, mainly iPads, and it is doing us all good. I certainly think there are some good educational apps to get them into but the main reason for it is to get them thinking about how to entertain themselves when we are not at the splash pad or outside or wherever we may be. It forces them to use their little creative minds and have fun with each other and their toys.

So far so good!

I am thinking we are going to keep this break going and enjoy more creative kid activities such as craft time. I’m relying on Pinterest a lot for this and so far my craft box needs a little TLC before we get into this. It’s pretty much a box of torn construction paper and broken crayons. Send any good suggestions my way!

One thing I am not afraid of handing over to my kids are these amazing grilled PBJs!! They are spectacular and I’m not even kidding. My husband doesn’t even like peanut butter that much and he’s blown away by these!

I really am a creamy peanut butter kind of gal so I definitely didn’t make this peanut butter crunchy but it has the right amount of texture. I used the strawberry sauce I recently put on the blog for the jelly and it works just fine when using a sturdy kind of bread like ciabatta or sourdough. The real finishing touch is grilling them. It gives them a two thumbs up in my opinion.

For good measure, I put this beautiful bowl of strawberries in this post again! It makes me want to run to the store and grab some more RIGHT NOW!

Fresh strawberries just scream summer to me and I feel so Martha Stewart-ish when I have fresh produce around that’s in season and it doesn’t look like it was picked before it was ripe and then traveled in a truck for days. Ya know?!

So get out of your lunch rut and make something new and fun!

Best Grilled PBJ (with Homemade Peanut Butter and Strawberry Sauce)

Best Grilled PBJ (with Homemade Peanut Butter & Strawberry Sauce)

Megan

A PBJ so good you will want to sit down with your kids and eat it too! It's grilled and made with homemade peanut butter and strawberry sauce on sourdough!

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Prep Time 10

Cook Time 20

Total Time 30

Course Lunch, Sandwiches

Ingredients

Sourdough bread or any type of heavier bakery-style bread
Quick and Easy Strawberry Sauce

Homemade Peanut Butter

4 cups dry roasted peanuts
1 tablespoon honey

Instructions

Homemade Peanut Butter

In a high-powered blender, combine peanuts and honey. Blend for 3-4 minutes. Mixture will get thick at first, but continue to blend and it will become smoother with a bit of texture. If you prefer creamy peanut butter continue to blend for an extra minute or so.

Quick and Easy Strawberry Sauce

See the recipe here. You can certainly substitute strawberry jam for this strawberry sauce to save time. Do what works best!

Grilled PBJ

Preheat panini grill to medium high heat.
Layer sourdough slices with homemade peanut butter on one side and strawberry sauce on the other half. Use a slotted spoon for best results to drain as much liquid as possible from the strawberry sauce.
Place on panini grill and grill until bread is a golden brown color.
Enjoy!!

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The most delicious strawberry sauce that can be whipped up quickly. It’s a great addition to yogurt, ice cream, or whatever your heart desires!

One of the best things about summer is all the fresh strawberries!

The stores are flooded with them and they don’t break the budget this time of year either. The fun part is how to use them in everyday dishes in a new and tasty way. We are certainly content with eating them as is but fresh strawberries in season have so much more potential and it is up to us to discover that!

This strawberry sauce brings out all the smiles at the table!

I really love eating seasonally.

To be able to taste the flavors of the season in their best form (at best price) and create unforgettable recipes with those flavors is what my little heart desires.

There’s nothing like the taste of a fresh and juicy strawberry, am I right?! The kids love them too! This strawberry sauce is basically the easiest way to get your kids to eat a healthy dose of vitamins. Mix it with plain greek yogurt to make strawberry yogurt, make a parfait, or even a Monte Cristo. This quick and easy strawberry sauce will be your new favorite addition to any meal!

I did choose to cut up the strawberries myself to give the sauce a little more texture rather than sticking them in a food processor as it came out pretty liquidy.

There’s nothing like this fresh strawberry sauce in the summer!!

I am already dreaming up more recipes to use this sauce in and they have YUM written all over them! The spread on the 4th of July will be a whole lot more tasty with this sauce on the table.

Ingredients

Fresh Strawberries
Sugar
Lemon Juice