Oh butter.

I'm so glad you brought this up because I have been wanting to talk about butter for ages.
I'm actually surprised that we waited this long to talk about it.

First, bread and butter.
Bread and butter is pretty much the best thing in a world full of best things.
No matter how many delicious things I eat and will continue to eat (insha'allah), I am never ever ever going to get sick of bread and butter. It is straight up delicious. My heart sinks a little whenever I see bread and olive oil on a restaurant table. I eat it, of course, but I don't love it. Actually, sometimes I do, if the oil is particularly nice and I put a little salt on my plate and then dip the bread in the salt after dipping it in the oil. Then I love it. But still, I don't love it as much as bread and butter.

I love how you can put butter in something, and then on something. The other day I made pierogi. I put butter in the dough, butter in the potato and beetroot filling, and then butter and chives on top when I served it up. Somehow, it came out not tasting very buttery, just extremely delicious.

I love how butter is a friend to the sweet dish, and a friend to the savoury dish. You can't say that about many things. Salt, maybe. Rice, I guess. Probably lots of thing. But butter, you do it with such grace.

I could go on and on but I am getting really hungry, and must stop now. But finally, I just want to mention that I think butter and mushrooms also go together beautifully.