Jeff Daniels was on The Tonight Show. He’s promoting his starring role in To Kill a Mockingbird, on Broadway. Jimmy Fallon brought out Jeff’s favorite snack and it was definitely weird. It was a plate with rice cakes, peanut butter and barbecue sauce on it, he used Sweet Baby Rays. Jeff explained that he snacks on that as he needs to keep his figure for the role.
[I’ve] got to fit into Atticus Finch’s suit, [I] can’t be eating a pint of The Tonight Dough ice cream. Rice Cakes is like eating cardboard, but I’m kind of like the single man cooks. So when Kathleen is gone I go gourmet, get a rice cake, peanut butter I like that taste and I really love the taste of barbecue sauce.
After that Jeff made one for Jimmy and himself. He used a ton of peanut butter and barbecue sauce. That’s not diet if you slather on the peanut butter! Jimmy made a face after he bit into it. Then they gave his already bitten rice cake to a woman in the audience to try and she didn’t like it either. They could have at least made a new one for her! I honestly eat rice cakes with peanut butter all the time. I like rice cakes, they have less calories than bread of course, and they’re perfect vehicles for spreads. My typical lunch is two rice cakes, one with hummus and another with cream cheese or peanut butter. Peanut butter has a lot of calories though so I weigh it on a kitchen scale to get one serving around 30 grams. Sometimes I add strawberry jam to it.
Jeff told the story that he wanted to retire after Dumb and Dumber To but that Jim Carrey said to him “that’s what you do, you’re supposed to be an actor.” Aaron Sorkin also convinced him to return with Newsroom. Sorkin got him to play Atticus Finch on Broadway too. Jeff said “You know when Aaron Sorkin says that, it’s the role of a lifetime and your job at that point is to give the performance of your life every night. That’s how I approach it, that’s how the cast approaches it.” The dude was eating a rice cake with peanut butter and barbecue sauce on it while he said this! I am going to put barbecue sauce on my rice cake and peanut butter lunch and I’ll update this post with my thoughts. I eat at 11:30 am EST.
Update: I ate this, it wasn’t bad but it wasn’t amazing or anything
Peanut butter and sweet barbecue sauce on a rice cake, I said I would eat this as it's Jeff Daniels' favorite snack. Verdict: not bad, decent, jelly is better https://t.co/JNeRdDca9A pic.twitter.com/9ldQEyvoFU
— celebitchy (@celebitchy) February 20, 2019
Ooh Jeff won an Emmy this last year for Godless. That reminds me to watch it!
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Love PB&J on a rice cake myself.
No to the BBQ sauce.
Also cream cheese with a bit of mashed sweet potato and a sprinkle of cinnamon and nutmeg on it when a sweet craving comes on.
My process of reading the title
…loves peanut butter on rice cakes…
“Sure, of course”
….with BBQ sauce.
“BURN THE HERETIC!!! BURN HIM!!!!”
He seems lovely by the way.
Exactly!
No, I absolutely would not try that. But I hate peanut butter. I only like it in cookie or Reese’s form.
Hold the BBQ sauce. PB on mini chocolate rice cakes is my go-to office snack.
Crunchy peanut butter on slices of apple is my new snack.
I always gave my kids that for a snack…but they preferred smooth pb ( I’m all in for the crunchy pb, though ).
I like to eat a variation of this. A rice cake or toast with tahini and sriracha sauce. Tahini has become my replacement for peanut butter. It’s also good with honey but I tend to crave savory and spicy more than sweet.
I feel like the bbq sauce isn’t a bad idea, as long as it’s paired with natural peanut butter, not the sugary stuff.
In Africa, they make a peanut soup with chilies. After trying that (loved it!) I make toast with peanut butter and hot pepper flakes sprinkled on top and it’s great! I don’t have a sweet tooth and never have peanut butter with jam.
Yeah in Israel they put tahini on everything- like ice cream, frozen yogurt, sushi
I am half Asian so that combo isn’t alien to me. Sweet, salty, tangy and savory? Yep!
This is what I was thinking,I mean at first reading this headline I thought it sounded gross,but then I thought about Asian cooking,and how savory flavored sauces and ingredients are paired with peanut sauce.I was making an Asian dish once and remember the recipe calling to add some peanut butter into it and letting it melt.
I don’t think I’ll try Jeff’s combo though.
same! i make a quick peanut sauce with peanut butter, soy sauce, and sriracha in a pinch!
Yuck. No. My favourites are plain rice cakes with tuna in sweet chilli sauce, or the sour cream and chives flavoured rice cakes with fresh ricotta, from the deli, not the tubs in the supermarket. For a sweet treat, I have the plain rice cakes with that lovely ricotta, topped with good-quality cherry jam. Yuummm.
I’d expect nothing less from a good old fashioned Michigan man! The Midwest is known for many things, but good food isn’t high on the list. Love Jeff no matter what he eats.
Why does it make me sad to picture you weighing peanut butter, celebitchy? You’re successful and smart as hell and obviously a talented writer and I just want you to go up to that peanut butter jar, scoop out as much as your body tells you it wants in this moment, and enjoy!
I know I shouldn’t be commenting on your eating choices but you put that out there, and sometimes the amount of energy women have to spend on food and diet breaks my heart. And I do it myself too so I’m not attacking. I get into times where I am so obsessed with calories, I waste my brain power on it, and at the end of the day it doesn’t make me a better person or even a healthier person.
When I let it all go I am happier and I can listen to my body. How does a scale know how much protein, fat and flavor my body needs in this moment? Those needs vary all the time! Listen to your body each day and throw that scale away.
It makes you sad that someone is mindful of what they eat ? Peanut butter is super high calorie. I need to stay under 1100 calories a day (I’m only 5 feet so I can’t do much more without gaining )
I hear you, Rose. I am mindful, too and definitely have to think about what I am putting into my body or I gain weight and I just don’t want to go there. Too bad that p.b. is so high calorie because I love it, but don’t have it often for this reason.
Yeah, it made me sad too. That’s quite extreme imo. It’s quite sad the lengths us women go to so we can be skinny and deemed attractive. We say it’s for our health but most of the time it’s for sex appeal.
I used to eat salt and vinegar sandwiches and I drink worcestershire sauce.
I could put Tabasco on everything!Love the smell and flavor of Worcestershire,too salty for me to use often though.
This made me LMAO. I am a huge sour/vinegar person, too. I think I picked it up from my uncle, who used to pick up the big salad bowl with the dregs of oil and vinegar and drink it. I also can kinda get the worcestershire quirk, too. I’m always craving…something in that realm. A continual quest for umami or something.
Well, if you don’t want just the sauce, pour a healthy glug into a bowl and cut yourself goodly chunks of cheese for dipsy purposes.
Incredulous, Great idea, can’t go wrong with cheese. I think some branch bread for dipping is always good, too.
Spicecake, I used to put tabasco on everything, too. It’s so good. The old TV spot where the guy puts it on everything including marshmallows was highly relatable to me!
I looove worcestershire sauce. I like to put it on a baked potato with feta cheese. Yum.
*French bread, agh.
I like Worcestershire, but I love, love the original Pickapeppa Sauce. Easiest snack in the world is Pickapeppa poured over a block of cream cheese. Put that out with crackers, or rice cakes, and watch it disappear.
Well, hi, Giddy. I thought I was the only person who did that. I use Wheat Thins crackers to spread it on. Yuuuum!
Mmmm, cucumber slices in red wine vinegar with freshly ground black pepper- a favorite summer side from childhood. Yum!
My husband jokes that I could live indefinitely on peanut butter, I love it so much. I don’t even need a vehicle for it. I’m good with a big spoonful from the jar (I don’t double dip, though–one spoonful is plenty!).
I can’t get behind the BBQ sauce thing, though. Just… No.
I didn’t know this was a thing or I wouldn’t have judged my Dads, peanut butter, bologna, lettuce and mayo sandwiches that he ate on the regular.
You pregnant, Jeff?
Jeff Daniels is such an under-utilized actor. I enjoy the movies he’s in… even “The Butcher’s Wife” with Demi Moore.
It’s not something I’d be compelled to try, but I wouldn’t yuck his yum.
No.
i hake a really great dish of tofu baked in peanut butter,than tossed in BBQ sauce and served over rice. i bet mine is bet.er,
Love Jeff Daniels. Hate rice cakes.
Love him so much. He’s from my area and is SO loved in Michigan. He’s super active in his community and just seems like such a normal guy.
You won’t regret watching Godless. Jeff was so convincingly scary it made me reevaluate my fondness for him as a celebrity. The other actors and actresses were just as excellent.
I started watching it last night! It’s really good my kid liked it too. (He’s in high school so it’s ok!)
My mouth is watering in that right-before-you-throwup way just considering this. Blech. I did love Newsroom though. Great show.
HAHAHA! I love that you updated this post with a review…
I like Jeff Daniels – a solid actor – but that topping is horrifying.
I am DYING at “Update: I ate this”. SO FUNNY. And we all appreciate you taste testing it for us!!