Dinner Tonight: Butter Butter Salad Recipe

This looked way, way too simple to possibly be any good, and I probably would have never given it a chance had it not had the clever title that is catchy and quite literal. The first butter is actual butter, and the second is the Boston Bibb lettuce, which is in the butterhead lettuce family. These two ingredients only need a little lemon juice and salt and pepper to make a quick and unique dish.

The recipe came from my brand new copy of the North Market Cookbook, which is my local destination for all things food in Columbus, Ohio. It was written by the cheesemonger of Curds and Whey, which seems a little odd considering not an ounce of cheese comes anywhere close to it. But it’s only a problem in theory, as the salad doesn’t need anything else. Somehow the clarified butter lightly coats the lettuce but never gets too heavy. The numbers by the ingredients are only a suggestion. I like to lightly dress my salads and then crank up the salt and pepper. But that’s just me.