After a few days off for a medical procedure, I returned to the kitchen to catch up with processing my batch of vegetables from the farm share. I had one very large cauliflower and several winter squash. I like to use my new air fryer(center photo) for these. The cauliflower roasted with olive oil and zatar seasoning. The squash I roast and then scoop out the innards, throw out the seeds(which I could roast too) and mash it with a little butter and maple syrup. For several hours I was running the air fryer on the kitchen counter.
This morning my husband told me that the butter had dissolved in its crock. We keep fresh butter in the jar shown on the left which holds it hovering above cool water keeping it just the right temperature to spread. I took a look at the contents and realized that the butter had indeed dissolved. In fact it contained ghee(photo on the right) separated from the milk solids.
We tried to figure out how that could have happened. I thought maybe the crock had been too hot(making it his fault) and he thought maybe it was the butter I had purchased(making it my fault). As you can see covid isolation has not cured us of fault finding. Then I realized that the air fryer had been running most of the day in front of the butter crock. It had been putting out a constant stream of heated air directly onto the butter.
Inadvertently, I had invented an easy way to make ghee. Now to find that Indian recipe I just saw that required it!
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Ah, serendipity!!
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This is the first time I have seen ghee. Remember the tigers who ran around the tree in Little Black Sambo? They melted into ghee in the story.
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I forgot that. Good link.
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Welcome back from your hiatus. I’ve seen ghee for sale at astronomical prices so if I ever want any I’ll make it myself, like you did! 🙂
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Hard to know how long to run the air fryer though!
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Ghee is widely available here because of the large Indian community in Britain. I would not usually cook with it though, due to its rather excessive fat content. I like your butter crock with water-fed temperature control. I have never seen one of those, and I’m now on the lookout for one locally. 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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I found some on Amazon, and watched a You Tube video about how to use the, I have been in France so many times, and yet have never heard of them until today.
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I have written about it again today.
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Love this. “More details on your kitchen arrangements welcome.)
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Good one.
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I immediately thought it was connected to the air fryer, Elizabeth. We actually have one of these but I never use it. You have inspired me to try.
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You were smarter than either of us.
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Elizabeth! Someone gifted me a butternut squash. Send help! I’ve never cooked one before. 😂
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Peel it. Cut it into little 1/2″ cubes after removing the seeds. Roast it with a little olive oil in around a 375 degree oven until it is golden. Eat it!
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I screenshot this! Thank you. ☺️
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You are welcome.
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There is almost always a silver lining!
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For sure.
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This post tickled my funny-bone in a couple of different ways – thanks!
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We need humor at the moment.
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Lol! 😀
Blessings,
Jennifer
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We Indians are crazy fans of ghee! Some rice, mashed potatoes, a chilli and ghee can just set our hunger pangs and moods right!!
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Too fun.
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