BUTTER!!

I almost forgot to blog about this!! I made my own butter last
night!! Bought some heavy cream (thankfully I had foresight and
bought a whole quart, good since now I want to make more butter).
I'm reading up on butter-making now and realize I didn't do it quite
right, but... it came out awesome!!

What I did was put heavy cream in the blender, and blend the
fizzlesticks out of it. Then it got too thick to blend thoroughly in
the bottom, so I had to dump off some of the whipped cream. I added
some salt at that point but had to stir down into the blades, and
keep doing the stir/blend routine for about 10-15 minutes, because it
kept going up the sides away from the blades. Finally some milky
substance started oozing from this lumpy yellowish glob and I
realized I'd made... BUTTER!! So I dumped off the milky stuff -
after tasting it of course; it was pretty good! - and then stirred
the butter more until I got more milky stuff out of it. Finally I
got to scrape it out of the bottom of the blender, all around the
blades, until I got it all into a container. It oozed more milky
stuff. Now I know why they call it buttermilk. It's milk that comes
from butter.

Anywho, it's very creamy, just mildy salty, and tastes like cream. I
wonder why butter would taste like cream...

haha.

~nv