Butter gone viral

Have you seen Twitter lately?

Of all the things that are going viral, one of them is butter. Yes butter!

Well not quite just butter, more specifically Irish butter and even more specifically, Kerrygold Butter. 

It all started with a tweet by @afrosabi (see below) and as things go on Twitter it spread quickly (excuse the pun!)

I'm not surprised by this at all as I have been extolling the virtues of Irish butter for years here on my blog. But it is not just Kerrygold that is great, most all Irish butters are really good as generally (like Kerrygold is) it is made from grassfed milk. This means that the cows eat grass outside for most of the year except for maybe a small amount of time if there is bad weather. It leads to the most gorgeous tasty yellow butter that has a high fat content up at about 80%.

Kerrygold is a very well know brand of butter here in Ireland but there are others including Avonmore Butter, Connaught Gold, Glenstal Creamery Butter and Ór Real Irish Butter (interesting fact the word Ór means gold in the Irish language). To be honest though the supermarket brand butters are really good here in Ireland and tend to have the same fat content as Kerrygold. I've tasted the Supervalu and Dunnes Stores own brand and they are delicious.  Irish butter is also avaiable in Lidl and Aldi. I've tasted the Aldi store brand (Kilkeely) and it's great and I regularly buy the Lidl store brand which is Dairy Manor.

So if you've not tasted Irish butter why not try it - I think you will notice a big difference to the butter that you normally eat (let me know!). 

I know that Kerrygold is the one that is widely available throughout the world but it can be expensive. So if you've now got an Irish butter addiction, here's a tip to save money - freeze your butter. Yes butter can freeze, so if you see butter on sale at a good price, buy a few and put them in the freezer to keep longer. But in fairness, butter lasts a good while, so you may not even need to freeze it.

My mantra is that everything is better with butter.  Let me know if you agree!

Just a perfect day!

Yesterday was great. Just one of those perfect days.

For some reason I bounced out of the bed at 6.30am which is very unlike me as I normally sleep til about 8am on the weekend. Anyway I got up and enjoyed the solitude in the house and had a chilled out cup of coffee with Bones asleep on the couch beside me and Ciaran still asleep upstairs.

And then Ciaran got up and got ready to go to Galway. He was picked up by his friend at 8.30am and I set off walking with the slow, old dog that is Bones. We walked to Nick's coffee where I discovered that it opens at 7am on a Sunday morning!!  I got there about 9am and it was literally the only place open in Ranelagh. There was a bit of a buzz in Nick's with a steady flow of people at the hatch in their window getting their coffee fix on. I enjoyed my coffee inside the shop, standing at the back counter with Bones (Yes, they are dog friendly!) and browsed instagram while I was there.

When I got home, I set about making Keto bread. I haven't made it in awhile and I was pleasantly reminded how easy it is to make - and how tasty it is (of course, I have to give a big nod to Irish butter - a slice of this bread toasted with a lump of Kerrygold is the best)!

I noticed that I lost an earring on the way back from Nick's but I didn't even let that ruin my perfect day! They were sent to me from USA by Amy. She is going to send me a new pair to replace - they were from Banana Republic which we don't have here in Ireland.

And then when Ciaran came home from Galway we went to the movies to see "A man called Otto" starring Tom Hanks. It's been about 2 months since I was last in the the cinema so it felt good to watch a fim on the big screen at the Ranelagh Omniplex. And what a film. So great, but utterly heartbreaking in parts. So so good.

All in all a perfect Sunday before I went back to work today. Very relaxed, very chill.....as the song goes, easy like a Sunday morning!