Making Roast Turkey (or Chicken) Gravy - VIDEO

Besides the family stuffing, gravy seems to provoke the most debate, and have a certain family propriety to it.  Your gravy will conjure up memories of childhood Thanksgivings or other holidays, and strange gravy will fall flat on your memory banks.

Thick or thin? Giblets or smooth? Salty or bland?  Each family seems to have a tradition.  But gravy, while a simple concept, is not so simple in execution.  Remember those lumpy, starchy gravies of youth (maybe even of today)?  Gravy is more than a mixture of stock and thickener.  It is the unifying element on the plate, the sauce in which all the important meal elements swim.  Isn't it worth a little effort?

Making Butter At Home. Good Stuff - VIDEO

Making butter at home is both simple and delicious with the right ingredients, tools, and technique.

Butter is simply the liberated fat from cream, which is generally stored in the emulsion that is cream.  The trick is to use agitation to combine the tiny fat globules into a growing mass until all the fat is liberated from the solution.  Chemistry.