Butter Inspiration

Man, oh man do I love Pinterest! I could stay on it all day! One of my favorite things to pin are recipes, but they tend to be hit or miss in reality. No big deal to me because I enjoy taking a recipe and making it my own (ask my mom or hubby - I rarely follow the recipe anyway). So when a friend pinned Make Your Own Flavored Butters from YourHomebasedMom, my imagination ran wild! (By the way, I checked out this website and found the creator, Leigh Ann, on Pinterest. I swear, we could be best friends...)

A little bit about me: I'm a born and raised Oklahoma girl with a Florida dad and Texas/Mississippi mom. I grew up Southern. And what do southerners love more than sweet tea? Jesus. After that, butter. Before I got married and moved to Phoenix, I remember a sweet little tea room, Alicia's, that had the BEST little muffins with orange marmalade butter. To this day the thought of that butter makes me salivate. Sadly, the tea room closed its doors several years ago and I never got the recipe for those fabulous little muffins.

Thanks to these recipes, I'm craving muffins and flavored butter. Sweet, savory... all of them. Maybe a smoked gouda muffin with her roasted red pepper butter? Or what about a vanilla lavender muffin with a creamy lemon butter? And don't get me started on corn bread muffins with honey butter! What other flavor combinations are out of the ordinary but would make an out of this world breakfast? Oooh, the possibilities are endless. I'll start playing around with the idea and post the recipes that are a big hit with the family.