Butter

[MrGongGong]

Quark is my spread of choice these days, pref Sainsburys

we know a song about that

I can't imagine making an omelette without thrusting the eggs into foaming butter.

ooooooermrs

[amateur51]

There was always going to come a moment when this thread turned racy

My money was on Ammy pitching in with Marlon Brando, but gurnemanz: interesting you've gone down the Nigella-double-entendre route

Like your style and I want to taste your omelettes

Oddly enough Caliban, Brando and butter did rear its head (oops!) on Burns Night when I think I rather shocked some early-40 year olds with that revelation

[amateur51]

That's true - I was living in a polenta area, not a risotto one.

There, some Italians were so inauthentic they would even try to make risotto with olive oil.

Butter AND olive oil works well with risotto and orzotto

[Nick Armstrong]

I think I rather shocked some early-40 year olds

I have absolutely no difficulty believing that!!



Incidentally, can I put in a word for foaming butter when it comes to scrambled eggs, too

[Anna]

The last thread I looked at on the MB, around about 17:00 was about Howard Goodall, where I noticed it had slipped down a slope about butter and/or other slippery fats.
I return now, to find a thead entirely about butter!! So, I might as well confess: I use Lurpack (the fact that it is a magical instrument imbues it with special powers of course) but I also use virgin olive oil and butter since (oh, some of you won't know this) the combination lowers the burning point. It's third year physics. I have no idea who ever buys the highly coloured and salted stuff such as Anchor (which to me tastes rather rancid)

[Nick Armstrong]

I use Lurpack (the fact that it is a magical instrument imbues it with special powers of course)

I knew it. Written in the stars, it was, from the start!

[Anna]

A few years ago, had to have routine bloods, asked the Practice Nurse "Does this Benecol Spread really lower cholesteral although it is so expensive, can it save me?"
Her reply was: "Yes, if you can stand eating three tubs of it per week, but butter is fine and in the long term will do you less harm, all things in moderation and do not believe any advertising" So that is the approach I take.

[Flosshilde]

Oddly enough Caliban, Brando and butter did rear its head (oops!) on Burns Night when I think I rather shocked some early-40 year olds with that revelation

A rather boring film, I thought. I left half-way through. (or perhaps I had a headache that night )

[Nick Armstrong]

A rather boring film, I thought. I left half-way through. (or perhaps I had a headache that night )

Indeed - remarkably dull film. The rented DVD was never watched in full...

[Flosshilde]

I also use virgin olive oil and butter since (oh, some of you won't know this) the combination lowers the burning point.

The burning point of the buter, I assume you mean? (Why lowering the burning point, when the effect is to increase the temperature at which it burns?).

At the risk of sending the thread off into a siding, has anyone used rape seed oil? I've tried it, but found it hopeless for cooking; it burns at a lower temperature than olive oil, & sticks. It doesn't taste of anything much, either, so is useless in salad dressing.

[Nick Armstrong]

A few years ago, had to have routine bloods, asked the Practice Nurse "Does this Benecol Spread really lower cholesteral although it is so expensive, can it save me?"
Her reply was: "Yes, if you can stand eating three tubs of it per week, but butter is fine and in the long term will do you less harm, all things in moderation and do not believe any advertising" So that is the approach I take.

Me too. As mentioned above, not much gets used from one week to the next. At my biennial check up, my cholestorol is below normal, if anything...

[Nick Armstrong]

The burning point of the buter, I assume you mean? (Why lowering the burning point, when the effect is to increase the temperature at which it burns?).

Ah yes.. that's right, isn't it Anna - the oil means that the mixture can reach a higher temperature without burning, than just butter...

[Keraulophone]

Butter AND olive oil works well with risotto and orzotto

Utterly smothered tonight's corn-fed f/r chicken in butter (that cooking brand, vide supra) AND olive oil mixed with lemon thyme and tarragon. The meat juices plus a large slug of sauv blanc, with a dash of double cream at the end, came up a treat. (Plus goose fat pots and julienne carrots.)

[teamsaint]

My favourite butter is peanut butter.
Yum.

peanut butter and Jam butties. Peanut butter and cheese butties. Peanut butter and marmite on toast.
I give it to the cats too.
For a treat.

BTW, in case there are any pedants out there ,(well you never know) it doesn't have real butter in.

[teamsaint]

Utterly smothered tonight's corn-fed f/r chicken in butter (that cooking brand, vide supra) AND olive oil mixed with lemon thyme and tarragon. The meat juices plus a large slug of sauv blanc, with a dash of double cream at the end, came up a treat. (Plus goose fat pots and julienne carrots.)

On a MONDAY ??!! bloody hell. its all I can do to poach a cup of tea after work on a monday.