Posted on 04/14/2021 4:58:37 PM PDT by be-baw
My household is always stocked with least two different kinds of butter: I have cooking butter for sautéing and baking, which is mostly a cheap store brand, and a separate eating butter, usually Kerrygold, for slathering.
While both butters are always salted, the eating butter is kept at room temperature for easier slathering and, oh, how I slather. I slather it on bread (obviously), but I’ve recently expanded my repertoire to include three somewhat unusual, but delicious foods, and I think you should start slathering similarly.
Potato chips
Putting butter on potatoes is a normal thing, as is dipping potato chips into dairy. Why, then, do we not dip potato chips in butter?
If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with puritanical values, and I would encourage you to shun those. The truth is that buttered potato chips taste good. Creamy fat has always paired well with salty, crispy things, and this particular combination is downright decadent, but not so rich that you can’t eat a whole bunch. (If you thought you couldn’t eat “just one” before, wait until you add butter.)
Chocolate chip cookies.
My dad always buttered his and we teased him for it, but turns out he was right. For this, salted butter is definitely better.
Also good on oatmeal cookies and probably many others...
With sea salt ...
Whatever I butter, it won’t be with Land O Woke
“it won’t be with Land O Woke”
They’re woke? How so? I can easily get by without Land o’ Lakes. I usually keep 4-6 lb of butter, all but one in the freezer, so it’s easy to wait until store brand is on sale.
4-6? Piker. 8-) I usually have 20-25.
Yes, it wasn’t originally, but is still good.
...also butter makes the BEST egg salad. I actually double the amount..yummmmmm
yummm! Didn’t know you could bake it in the oven. That’s why I don’t make them, now will try this again!
“I usually have 20-25.”
You’re joshing. Do you eat a lot of butter? It’ll freeze forever but quality diminishes over time.
My mom always insists on buttering bread when she makes a sandwich. Thoroughly disgusting.
Well you’re singing my song regarding butter...without a doubt! I have grown family members that say I ‘slather’ everything with butter and more than I should....HAHA!
Here’s some more places butter adds the best flavor:
- Put some pats of butter in Tomato Soup...Yum!
- Add melted butter to cheese popcorn, also pre-buttered popcorn.
- mix butter and brown sugar, slather over Toll house crackers and bake for few minutes....Fabulous!
Here’s to BUTTER!!!!!
Butter on Graham crackers is great! Little old lady from England introduced me to that....I would never have guessed!
OH and add worchester sauce with it....wonderful!
I dip steak bites in butter like you would Lobster tail!!
OH YES!
With garlic salt and pepper.
“Here’s some more places butter adds the best flavor:
- Put some pats of butter in Tomato Soup...Yum!
- Add melted butter to cheese popcorn, also pre-buttered popcorn.
- mix butter and brown sugar, slather over Toll house crackers and bake for few minutes....Fabulous!”
You do like butter. I can tell. When I made popcorn on the stove, when the popcorn was done I put it in a bowl, then melted a stick of butter in the pot and dumped the popcorn into the melted butter. Add lots of salt. My family loved it.
I have a jar of popping corn in the cupboard, unopened. It’s probably at least 10 years old. I’m hoping the popcorn kept well, because I really want to make it again...with a stick of butter, of course. I have a lot of Orville Redenbacher microwave popcorn Movie Theater popcorn. It had plenty of butter and goes very well with ice cold Coke.
You sound like you’ve followed me shopping for groceries!
Yes sir. I bake alot and eat alot of butter. It goes with everything! Although I havent tried it on anything mentioned in the article because most of it is crap.
You’ll laugh at this, and my brother and I still laugh about it. ...mom ran out of butter on movie & popcorn night. So she tried to pass by us using bacon grease!....Oh it was nasty!..and we never forgot it! HAAHA
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