At the beginning of this month, I announced that I would be hosting Food ‘n Flix with Butter the movie. I have a wonderful time with all my groups but this one is particularly special to me. I adore all the participants and I really like the fact that there is an element outside of the kitchen…it’s a lot more interactive.
Butter is a 2011 comedy film starring Yara Shahidi, Jennifer Garner, Ty Burrell, Olivia Wilde, Alicia Silverstone, and Hugh Jackman. The movie tells the tale of an adopted girl who discovers her talent for butter carving and finds herself pitted against an ambitious local woman in their town’s annual contest in Iowa. No, butter is not as innocent as you would think, there is a lot of dirty plays and sabotaging plots. This is the cut-throat story of greed, blackmail, sex, and butter!
I knew there would be mixed feelings about this choice of film. It is very offbeat and pokes fun at a certain stereotype. It makes a lot of social and political commentary in the weirdest setting ever: in a butter carving competition. But still overall everyone kept an open mind and had some fun with it.
Whatever they may have thought of the movie, it still inspired some delicious buttery recipes. I want to try them all!
We have 3 butter entries…
Amy from Amy’s Cooking Adventures churned some Homemade Butter
Camilla from Culinary Adventures with Camilla was all shook up with her Homemade Nasturtium Compound Butter
Debra from Eliot’s Eats brown buttered and flavored a Sage Compound Butter
Only 1 savory dish from ….
Joanne from What’s on the List baked Easy Entertaining Butter Baked Herb Scallops
And everyone else had a sweet tooth…
Kimberly from Coffee and Casseroles made a Butter Tart
Terri from Our Good Life baked a Lemon Gooey Butter Cake
Heather from girlichef no churned some Butter Pecan Ice Cream
Wendy from A Day in the Life on the Farm made Gooey Butter Shortbread
Sarah from Well Dined prepared Country Apple Dumplings
And I came up with Brown Butter Shortbread with Butter Buttercream
Thanks to all who participated! Please take the time to visit the blogs to get the recipes.
Want to have fun with us by watching a film and cooking? Join us next month at Food ‘n Flix with our host Deb from Kahakai Kitchen with a great movie with awesome food: Eat Drink Man Woman.
A round up of recipes with butter…I am loving it! My favourite has to be the butter buttercream shortbreads. I must see this movie!
I love butter the movie, especiall the scene Olivia Wilde carving the butter
I love seeing what everyone made! Since I grew up in Iowa, I think I need to see this movie—better late than never, right???
I am running extremely late this month but wanted to thank you for hosting, Evelyne. I am going to get around to everyone’s posts today (I hope)!
Great round up! Thank you for hosting!
Bonjour! What a great round up Evelyne where you were a great host! Thank you for continuing to inspire me! I will be sure to visit all of this month’s participants!
I wish I could have done this but life was just too chaotic before our trip. I still haven’t seen the film but tned to love anything offbeat 😀 Great round up Eve!
This has become my favorite monthly event! I had a lot of fun and loved the movie! I hadn’t heard of it until your pick came out. Super fun!
Oh my gosh – great job everybody!
I feel the same way about our Food ‘n Flix group…look forward to getting together every month. Thanks so much for hosting us this month, such a fun group of butter-centric inspiration!
Your brown butter shortbread is my favourite!