Entries tagged with 'butter'
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My mom's version of Monkey Bread; my version from the King Arthur Flour mix Every Christmas morning for as long as I can remember, my mom would make her version of classic Monkey Bread using Pillsbury dough, with at least a stick of butter and a cup of sugar (if not double of both). I have such fond memories of the bread that I set out to recreate it with the King Arthur Flour Classic Monkey Bread Mix ($12.50, williams-sonoma.com) and its accompanying baking mold ($29.95, williams-sonoma.com). This mix is not about saving time or saving calories; start to finish the process was approximately 3 1/2 hours, including waiting time (and lots of cleaning). For a good laugh, I...
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The Guardian reports John Lydon, singer for legendary punk bands Sex Pistols and Public Image Ltd., is fattening up the UK in his first ever commercial for Country Life butter. Lydon was known in the past for his anarchist attitude, but in the last few years has pierced through the souls of TV viewers on British reality TV, Discovery Channel, and VH1. Now, instead of the grating chords of "God Save the Queen" running through their heads, Brits will never forget his intonation of "It's not about Great Britain, it's about great butter!" I'm not sure he'll ever live this one down—especially the part when the cows chase him off-screen. Since we can't embed the video, see the over-enthusiastic...
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We now present you with our fourth t-shirt in the Neighborhoodies "Think Ups" t-shirt series. Our task was to think up five phrases for food-related t-shirts and hoodies. Earlier this week we gave you the first three: Praise the Lard, Hasta la Pizza, I Eat Food. The fourth involves a theme not new to Serious Eats: Paula Deen and her butter fetish. Make that deep-fried butter fetish. Sometimes I look at one of her recipes and wonder, "Could I survive that?" Similar to riding a scary roller coaster or attending a themed bar mitzvah, survival is questionable. And if you do, well, show it off. All T-shirts and hoodies are American Apparel 100 percent cotton and are available in...
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The next time you slather the creaminess on toast, please realize: butter has another noble purpose. Inspired by the life-sized butter reconfiguration of Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson, we wanted to dig deeper and better understand the curious art form. Butter Sculptures: A Brief History Tibetan Buddhists were first to bestow upon us the butter sculpture. Covering monastery altars and family shrines for years, the intricate offerings are still sacred today. Monk artists work in extremely cold conditions to avoid the inevitable melting issue. During the 19th century, the tradition spread to North America where butter sculpting has become a standard at state fairs. One of the most recognizable and beloved is Butter Cow, first created at the Iowa State...
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16-year old U.S. Olympic gymnast Shawn Johnson has a lot to be proud about having just won the silver medal in the women's gymnastics individual all-around competition. But before then, she already had a nearly just as important accomplishment on her list: being made into a life-sized butter sculpture. Butter Shawn Johnson will be on display at the Iowa State Fair in the Agriculture Building until this Sunday, the 17th. [via Neatorama]...
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Bay Area Bites Want an easy project for the weekend that will result in something useful but all you have on hand is heavy cream? Mike Procopio of Bay Area Bites has just the thing for you with his butter-making tutorial. Simply dump your heavy cream in a bowl and whip it until it turns into whipped cream. And then continue whipping until the whipped cream turns into clumps of butter! Related Ramp Compound Butter Paula Deen Is Trying To Kill Us: Deep Fried Butter Balls Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!...
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For 21 years, Quebec made sure margarine didn't resemble butter too much. Lighter or darker, as long as the chemical alternative didn't dupe consumers after the real stuff. This policy also allowed the province to retain such an influential dairy industry. But earlier this week, the Cabinet decided margarine could now be any color—even a gold buttery one....
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How bad is Japan's butter shortage? Here's some more photographic evidence: Yongfook, a web designer based in Tokyo, took this photo in a supermarket where a block of a butter blend now costs about $7. So for $14 you could get a full only-butter block. Previously Japan Is Running Out of Butter Unbelieveable! This Is Not Butter!...
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A sign explains "that the management does not know when the next shipment of butter will come." Japanese croissant-lovers be afraid: Japan is going through an extreme butter shortage: Where is the butter? — cry Japanese consumers who have been hunting everywhere for the dairy product. The drastic reduction in raw milk production, complicated by hikes in the price of grain as well as changes in the global patterns of dairy product consumption, have caused a serious butter shortage in Japan. Empty shelves in the dairy section of grocery stores across the country have not seen a shipment of butter for days, and stores are posting signs apologizing for the shortage. [via Boing Boing]...
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It's good to be proud of your product. So much that you want your food mascot to be consuming the goods too, hence a packaging with the Droste effect. This Dutch term refers to a repetitive cycle of art in a diminishing, hypothetically neverending series. Logically it cannot go on forever though. For example, the Land O' Lakes label depicts their Native-American maiden mascot showing off her favorite buttah brand. But does the mini maiden hold an even minier maiden? We can only hope. Tricky, tricky stuff. [via Box Vox]...
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