The 50-50

Ingredients: peanut butter, fruit preserves (raspberry, by far the best), Nutella, bread

Step One: Lay out ingredients on your stove in a appealing manner.


Step Two: Apply a healthy dose of peanut butter to one piece of the bread, then apply an equally healthy dose of Nutella to the other.


Step Three: Apply liberal dollop of fruit preserves to the peanut buttered piece of bread (yes, this matters. Doubts? Go ahead and try putting the preserves on the Nutella, just don't complain to me when your sandwich is ruined). It helps to kind of stir up the preserves a bit in the jar, so they're easier to spread once they make contact with the bread.


Step Four: Seal the pieces together. This should feel very satisfying, especially if you were extra careful to line up the slices of bread.


Oh big deal, you might think. It's just a regular pbj with Nutella. Negative. A true pbj requires peanut butter on both pieces of bread. To simply add Nutella to that would be a disaster--the sandwich would be too thick and the luscious taste of the Nutella would be drown out by an overwhelming ocean of peanut butter. No, The 50-50 is calculated to give you the best mixture of the three ingredients, letting them each shine under their own spotlight before joining together center stage for the chorus line. Or something to that effect...