Articles by Amelia Plair
Butter Together: Where there’s smoke, I’m cooking
“Hey, mom?”
“What’s up?”
“I think something’s on fire.”
Butter Together: This one is im-pasta-bly easy
I don’t know if I’ve told you about this already, but Zack and I are now the proud owners of a cow.
Butter Together: That’s a wrap
About a year and a half ago, our family made a pact that we wouldn’t go out to eat for a year.
Butter Together: A boatload of banana (bread)
“Oh, I need to get some more sour cream. I used the last of it in the banana bread.” That’s me, planning my grocery run last week.
Butter Together: A dish only a mother could love
Have you ever had one of those evenings where you knew you needed to cook a meal, but all you really wanted to do was absolutely nothing?
Butter Together: Down the potato bread rabbit hole
Well, I’ve gone and done it. I’m down so far in the rabbit hole I don’t know that I’ll ever get back out.
Butter Together: Slow cooker roulette leads to Italian chicken
Friends, I had Plans for this Christmas break.
Butter Together: Raindrops on roses and ginger in cookies
One of the things I love to ask my students is what kinds of things they do with their families for holidays.
Butter Together: A dish for those im-pasta-ble weeknights
I know December is the time of year people share candy and cookie and appetizer recipes. I guess that makes sense, but you know what makes more sense?
Butter Together: A head above the rest
A couple of years ago when Zack and I got our second deep freezer (stop judging me), I was in a twitch to fill it up in a hurry.
Butter Together: The fruit of the poor lemon
“You just think all white women look alike. You probably think I look like… like… Mrs. Plair!”
Butter Together: On puddings and breads and the call of the grannies
I have been thinking a lot lately about food and cooking – even more so than usual, and that’s saying something.
Butter Together: This freezer-cleaner is soup-erb
I don’t mean to brag, but the inside of my freezer looks so good right now.
Butter Together: A berry good way to top a pancake
If you have an empty mason jar, you’re going to need to fill that jar.




