Butter Me Up

Hi.

There is butter on my face and in my belly. Allow me to explain the former before you skedaddle off to some more dignified blog.

Maren of Butter Your Body skin care sent me a sample of her Green With Life face mask. All the Butter Your Body products are vegan, natural, organic and handmade. I could tell—it smelled like salad!

But in a good way. With some skin products, I have a sense of inhaling frankenfumes, which can’t be doing much good, so I was glad to use a product that had me 100% confident in its integrity and benefits. Thanks for the sample, Maren!

Rest assured that I limited my sampling of the above product to topical use. I decided against testing my theory that the mask was indeed granulated salad.

Instead, inspired by Gena’s recent praise of the sweet potato-avocado taste combination, I decided to try it for myself. I wanted a baked sweet potato for dinner, but not just any old butter for topping…

…and I didn’t want just a simple chopped or mashed avocado.

No, I wanted a fat party in my mouth. Into the mini blender went 1/4 avocado, 1/2 tbsp coconut butter and 1/2 tbsp coconut oil… 

…onto the grill went a sliced yellow squash…into the oven went some broccoli florets…

…and into my belly went all of this:

At which point out came an “I should probably put this on the blog.”

So I did.