My next food, well, don't throw things at me when I say it. I hate butter. I do. I really, really don't like it. The funny part about it is, peanut butter is one of my all-time favorite foods. Go figure! I never spread butter on my food. I don't like to cook with it, and can taste butter in foods when I'm eating them. It's not that it just tastes bad to me, it makes me feel a little sick. And really, it's a good thing that I don't like it! Foods such as almond butter and apple butter are a gray area for me.
I've made butter the old fashioned way before. Have YOU? If you haven't, you might not eat it, either, if you knew about it! Here are some directions on making butter. The highlights of this process include, for me:
Letting the raw cream sit for several hours!
Cream being sour from sitting in a cellar for a week in temps 60 degrees or higher!
How it gets all lumpy and weird as you churn it!
Rancid buttermilk running out of butter if you don't rinse it properly!
Mmmmmm! Don't you want some butter now? I'm sorry. I have seen it made, I have made it, and it really grosses me out. And I have issues with warm dairy products. Butter in the fridge is hard to spread, and butter on the counter top makes me want to vomit! Why do you want to eat something that isn't spreadable, tastes weird, is the result of souring, requires the use of a weird little knife, and will give you a heart attack? Oh, but I forgot how versatile it is! You can use it to create works of art, such as this sculpture of John McCain and Barack Obama.
Somehow, I get the feeling that neither of these men can stand the heat. They better get out of the kitchen.
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