Ryan made us a couple of loaves of homemade bread this weekend, and they taste amazing. He tried a new recipe from a Julia Child cookbook I got for Christmas (thanks aunt Dana!), and I'm not the least bit upset he's the first one to use it. I'm a huge fan of homemade bread for lots of reasons, but one of the top reasons is butter. I love butter ladies and gentlemen, a lot. I was totally one of those kids who would eat butter all by itself, and to this day I'm tempted but the yellow deliciousness. This is probably why French cooking appeals to me so much, and why Paula Deen holds a special place in my heart.
Butter has magical qualities; it transforms bland dishes, tenderizes, sweetens, enriches. Butter transcends sweet, and savory. Butter brings up memories from childhood, and warms the soul. Butter is good no matter how you fix it. Except for maybe fried butter...still not sure about that one. One of my favorite quotes from the Little Women movie comes from a young Amy when she exclaims: "Butter! Oh isn’t butter divinity? Oh God thank you for this breakfast!" I feel like that every morning when I make my toast. Butter = Divinity. big kiss, bekuh
I love homemade bread... especially while it's still warm from the oven and it melts the butter... so good! I'm a butter lover, too, but I could never eat it solo - my nephew is another story, we have to hide the little cups of butter the servers set on the tables when we go out to dinner because he'll eat it with his fingers straight out of the cup!
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Clicked on this post purely because of my love for the little women quote, i love homemade bread it feels so wholesome with soup in the winter
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I really want to watch Little Women now. I just might do that. That toast looks delish!
ReplyDeletehahahah i completely forgot about that quote from Little Women! do you guys have a breadmaker machine thing or ...? i've tried making homemade bread several times and it never turns out :(
ReplyDeleteOkay, now I'm really in the need for some toast and butter! YUM!
ReplyDeleteOh yum! I love homemade bread, but I never made it myself, I've only ever had my grandmothers. However, what I love more than homemade bread is butter, French butter to be exact. I could be happy to have that as my last meal.
ReplyDeleteYuuuuummm. I was reading this and completely forgot about my own raisin toast- now cold- that I had to eat with my husband's Nutelex (he's lactose-intolerant). Bit of breakfast envy going on here!!
ReplyDeletecan't really go wrong with BUTTA!
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you must be kidding YUM! there is nothing better than good bread with butter in it. totally delicious!!
ReplyDeleteNow you've got me reminiscing my childhood - of smothering warmed pumpkin muffins or date bread with butter. I also loved nothing more than a crumpet smeared with butter (the butter melts right into the crumpet) with just a drizzle of honey. YUM!
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a baby I'd crawl out of my crib, crawl downstairs, open the refrigerator, and eat whole sticks of butter. I totally understand when it comes to loving butter.
ReplyDeleteI love the happy simplicity.
ReplyDeleteand he is making bread! that's the greatest.
we can't make homemade bread here because I will eat nothing else. literally. until it is gone.
enjoy!
LOVE the post title!
ReplyDeleteWhile I was in Sweden last week, I fell in love with their butter. I don't eat too much butter at home, but man, I was really loading up my bread with that deliciousness over there!
ReplyDeleteThat looks delicious! How sweet of your husband.
ReplyDeleteI love that quote, too. ;)
I have to ask, what kind of butter you are using? We just tried some local butter from a farmers market last week and it is phenomenal. The bread looks delicious!
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