Homemade Butter

Did you know homemade butter is super easy?  Like, all you really do is put heavy whipping cream in a bowl and blend it until it separates into butter and buttermilk.  Sully and I made some yesterday afternoon.  I haven't actually tried it yet.  I wanted to put it on some fresh banana bread but when I wasn't looking Sully ate the banana that was on the counter for the banana bread.  I'm going to buy some more ripe bananas today.  I'm also going to use my homemade buttermilk in my banana bread.

This may sound a bit goofy but I was looking in the fridge the other day and we were running low on "butter".  Not actual stick butter but the stuff that comes in a tub and I haven't read the ingredients but I'm pretty sure they don't say cream and salt which is what real butter is made of.  Anyway, I was looking at that shelf which also has our eggs and thought, "it would be so cool to have homemade butter and eggs from our own chickens in our fridge instead of this stuff that I'm just not so sure about."  I'm not really that crunchy or granola but I really do like the idea of knowing where my food comes from.  I'd also like to have a garden someday and can our veggies and fruits for the winter months.

Here is a link to one of the sites I referenced when making our butter yesterday.  Here is the other.  Again, it is ridiculously easy!

A side note... once I started thinking about homemade butter I decided I needed a butter dish, to have soft butter all the time.  Did some searching online and instantly swooned over this embossed one at Sur La Table so I bought it with some of my Christmas money (thanks mom and dad).  I also went ahead and bought this beautiful set of white mixing bowls, two linen colored dish towels, a veggie brush, and a beehive cookie cutter.  They are all super nice quality and make me hate cooking just a bit less.