To have great success while cooking, you must start with the best ingredients possible. This is true whether we’re talking about anything from a fresh tomato to pasta, and of course, to butter!
I’ve been using Kerrygold butter for the past year or so — and don’t foresee using another butter in the near future.
So creamy, so rich, and so delicious! (Learn more about this beautiful Irish butter and other Kerrygold products here.) I really want you to taste this butter, so I’m going to give you some! Well, the winner of my Kerrygold Butter Giveaway, that is. (Please see the giveaway details below.)
So let’s create with this butter, shall we?
While spreading plain butter on bread is delicious, compound butters are interesting, impressive and can be even more delicious. (A compound butter is simply a butter that has had other flavors added to it.)
Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter * Spiced Chai Butter * Smoky Tomato Butter
These butters are fantastic on breads, bagels, pasta, fish, chicken, and the list goes on.
Just look around your pantry to see what you might like to blend into your butter and spread on your bread for your next get together.
And now for the Kerrygold Butter Giveaway! (Recipes are below)
(March 26, 2013-Update: This giveaway is now closed — thank you all for your participation, and congratulations, Deborah!)
This isn’t a sponsored post, I love this butter & it’s from me personally, as a gift to you!
• You have a chance to win 2 -pounds of Kerrygold Butter (1 unsalted, and 1 salted).
• There will be 1 winner.
• The winner of the contest will be selected at Random.org.
• The winner will be notified via email, & have 2 days to respond. If I don’t hear from you, a new winner will be chosen.
• The giveaway is open until through the end of the day, Monday, March 25, 2013.
• You must have a mailing address in the U.S. to win.
Please leave me a comment below about these butter recipes or anything foodie. And if you’d like, you can leave a separate comment for each of the steps you do that are listed below. You can just leave one comment or many comments. It’s up to you!
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- 1/3 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1/2 teaspoon tomato paste
- 1/4 teaspoon smoked paprika
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1 teaspoon Meyer lemon zest
- 1 teaspoon Meyer lemon juice
- 1/2 teaspoon finely chopped fresh dill
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
- 1/3 cup unsalted butter softened
- 1/2 teaspoon golden brown sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon each: ground cardamom cinnamon, cloves, and ginger
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Be sure the butter is at room temperature and is very soft.
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Add the softened butter to a small bowl and add the remaining ingredients.
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Use a small spoon to mix until it's completely smooth.
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With the exception of the Spiced Chai recipe, season to taste with salt and pepper.
Not sure exactly how to season to taste? Here's how.
Hi! Thank you for the chance to try this great-looking butter. I already follow you on FB and receive your emails. Thank you for all of the wonderful recipes!
Thank YOU for sharing in my love of food. 🙂
Liked, loved, pinned, and shared! (Though I don’t have a twitter account). Thanks for loving real butter. I will definitely be trying the spiced chai butter on some toast. Yum!
I haven’t tried this butter either. Sound as if it would be wonderful for Shortbread cookies.
I’ve signed up!!!!!
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Love Kerrygold butter! After Camp Blogaway I was surprised to see it available in local stores…just hadn’t noticed it before. I’m excited to try your compound butters…
Your butters are gorgeous! Kerrygold is fabulous butter and you can really taste the difference!
I like your Facebook page, I really, really like it. (So does Sally Field!) 🙂
I follow you on Twitter, because everyone should.
These compound butter recipes look amazing!! I can’t wait to try the smoked tomato butter.
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Love your recipes!
KerryGold is absolutely yummy! Reminds me of the homemade butter my grandmother made with cream from her grass-fed cows. There’s nothing else like it for sure. Love your site and wonderful recipes!
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The Myer lemon dill butter sounds soooo good! I am just picturing it melting a freshly steamed lobster and shrimp…..mmmmm
Colleen, that sounds perfect! Thanks for the idea. 🙂
I pinned the giveaway on one of two of my boards!
We only buy kerrygold butter! Seriously the best value for my money. I love a compound butter for steamed artichokes or on asparagus.
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I do like your Facebook page and follow you on Twitter….and I tweeted!
Thank you for the chance to try this product. I have wanted to try this for some time now,but never get around to buying it. I ALWAYS use real butter when i cook and bake.I bake in a restaurant 3 days a week,and at home almost as much. Real butter is always close at hand.
I’ve never tried Kerrygold Butter, but I love their cheese! What a great giveaway, thanks!
I bought Kerry gold butter, but haven’t tried it yet; am anxious to do so tomorrow, especially if I make Irish soda bread. The Meyer lemon dill butter sounds wonderful.
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Just bought this butter. It is my favorite, too. I really enjoy your blog. Thanks for sharing.
I joined the email – thank you I always need help with cooking. Liked on face book pined on pinterest, oh and printed the compound recipes for this weekends family get together. Thanks for the great ideas.
i don’t normally make compound butters but i would love to win the butter for baking,
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Kerrygold Butter is a fabulous product! As a citrus lover the Meyer Lemon Dill recipe sounds scrumptious!
I am a happy subscriber of your blog!
Thank you, Deb! 🙂
Love your emails and site. I would love to receive your giveaway. I love to cook. Thank you for all your great recipes.
Thank you, love these – how long will they keep?
Frankie, most butters will keep nicely for about a month in the refrigerator, and up to 6 months in the freezer. Thanks for commenting. 🙂
I follow you via e-mail subscription and would like the chance to try out this butter
The Smoky Tomato Butter sounds really good but I would like to make some Browned Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies with the Kerrygold. Thanks for the opportunity to score some!
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Love these recipes, they look perfect for embellishing simple veggies. I’m thinking the smoky tomato on grilled corn, the lemon on asparagus, the chai on a baked sweet potato…
Karen, I LOVE those ideas! 🙂
I say boo to margarine – it’s butter all the way for me!
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The meyer lemon-dill butter sounds fantastic. thanks for the recipe.
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I make a compound butter using lime, coriander, cumin and hot pepper.
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Debbie, that sounds delicious! I’d like to melt that on a crispy tortilla. Yum!
I’ve never tried kerrygold, but I swear all my foodie friends on Facebook rave about it all the time,so I’m quite curious!
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The food writer at out local paper just wrote an article about butter and raved about Kerry Gold. Now I want to try it.
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I absolutely LOVE your website and I do follow you on facebook! I agree with you on the Kerrygold butter as well – I recently found it and tried it and I am hooked! The flavor is amazing and I will not go back to regular butter, ever! 🙂
Thank you so much, Jill! 😀
Kerrygold butter reminds me of home, since my mom gets this good stuff for parties or awesome recipes!
Hi Meredith, I LOVE foods that remind me of home, my mom, etc. 🙂
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I love this butter, not just for baking. It is my go to butter for bread and other treats
I totally agree Katherine — I LOVE spreading the salted Kerrygold on a warm, toasted onion bagel. YUM!
The Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter sounds good.
Thank you, Tari!
I love butter!!
Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter looks amazing! Would love to serve that at my next holiday gathering
I am definately going to make the Smoky Tomato Butter recipe. Looks great!!
The butter recipes sound good, but your article on seasoning to taste was very good and I now understand what they are talking about.
Thank you so much, Derk — I’m so happy to hear that! 🙂
I love butter and radishes
I’ve been reading about a strange recipe called bulletproof coffee, in which you actually add butter. I’d love to try it with this!
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I LOVE Kerrygold butter! The Chai compound butter recipe sounds like it would be yummy on banana bread, or muffins, or my fingers : )
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I now follow you on Pinterest. Your “What I’ve been baking” board looks interesting. My Pinterest user name is Amy Leach.
These are wonderful recipes, but I have to confess… I love the taste of good butter, just as it is. KerryGold would be such a treat to taste.
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i love flavored butters. Thanks for these recipes. A must try!
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i can’t wait to try the Meyer Lemon-Dill Butter recipe, it sounds amazing!
Thanks for the giveaway…mashed potatoes cannot be prepared properly without using Kerrygold Butter !
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Butter always makes everything better.
Thank you all so much for participating in this Kerrygold butter giveaway! The winner is Deobora of East of Eden Cooking (http://www.eastofedencooking.com/) — congratulations!