The beauty of butter

[breakinglight11]

I'm always surprised by just how delicious common table butter is. Because I usually cook kosher and rarely don't prepare meat, if I have need of something like butter I'm typically forced to resort to Smart Balance. When I get the chance to have actual butter again, it's so tasty I can't believe it. No wonder I can't fucking make gravy, if I'm stuck with cheap imitations in my roux.

Comments

[zrealm.livejournal.com]

Try suet for your roux - cheap imitation butters are never ever in a million years going to work :)

[blendedchaitea.livejournal.com]

You could use oil? That would be kosher, and Alton Brown uses it in his roux.

[breakinglight11.livejournal.com]

You can make a roux with oil? I didn't know that. Does he do that in any particular episode?

[blendedchaitea.livejournal.com]

Mhm, the gumbo episode.

[emp42ress.livejournal.com]

If you're cooking mammal or poultry with the skin on, there should be plenty of fat in the juices to just use that for your roux. That's the only way I've ever made gravy.