Mom: did you use butter or oil?
Me: oil
Mom: if the stew tastes bland, add some spices and also add some butter. My saying is, even shit tastes good if you put butter in it.
Mom: did you use butter or oil?
Me: oil
Mom: if the stew tastes bland, add some spices and also add some butter. My saying is, even shit tastes good if you put butter in it.
This mom has sound cooking philosophy. Never too much butter, ever.
October 6, 2010 at 1:09 pm
My grandma is always talking about all of these low-fat recipes she makes, then criticizes me for not slathering butter all over the bread when I make grilled cheese.
October 6, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Oh, man. I love butter. LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it!
October 6, 2010 at 2:31 pm
That is Paula Deen’s philosophy as well!!
October 7, 2010 at 10:03 am
Josh- You make grilled cheese without butter?
Fool.
October 10, 2010 at 10:35 am
And you have to slightly burn the butter on the grilled cheese to bring the taste out. If it’s not black in places it’s not a good grilled cheese.
October 12, 2010 at 3:33 am
@Bratfink – that is so true! I thought I was the only one who did that and my mom thought I was crazy and just not paying attention to what I was cooking. Which is also partly true, but how else would I have discovered this?
October 12, 2010 at 9:08 am
If there’s one thing I’ve learned from watching the gazillion cooking competition shows out there now, it’s that if you slather it with butter – and/or bacon – plus salt & pepper just the right amount it’s hard to go wrong, even for picky palates paid to pass judgment.
October 12, 2010 at 9:30 am
If I knew my “Comment of the Day” would have lasted three months, I would have included the URL to my website. Might have bumped up my traffic a bit. Oh well.
January 7, 2011 at 11:50 am
Dude, its comment of the YEAR now. just one thing you said has become a semi-permanent fixture on somebody else’s site, displayed prominently. It’s as though you are a celebrity endorser. You could be rolling in the dough now, if you had simply put ‘©’ at the end of it.
September 23, 2011 at 7:06 pm
I know! I just realized it’s still up here, more than a year later. They should include my comment as a break out quote in the next book.
And I still don’t use butter when I make grilled cheese. Although my son thinks the ones my grandma makes are better because she uses Smart Balance on them.
October 19, 2011 at 11:39 am
And years later it still stands!!
April 26, 2013 at 4:00 pm
Comment of the day for 10 years running!
July 12, 2021 at 12:55 am