On Mon, 9 Mar 1998 10:45:41 -0500 Nancy Weir <[log in to unmask]> writes: >On Sat, 7 Mar 1998 20:37:19 -0500 Crystal Siegel wrote: > >> Personal preference. and mainly because I haven't found >any substitutes that give me that butter flavor. Do you >know something I don't? > >If you switched you would probably miss it a lot for a year >and then not miss it so much. Well, at least that has been >my experience. I use Margarine in everything now. I >confess I sneak nibbles of shortbread at Christmas though. > I still miss REAL butter, but live with margarine for the time being. I've tried a bunch of different ones, but keep coming back to the Nucoa brand - sticks and tub. It's fries the best of the ones I've tried and bakes pretty well. Sometimes it is a bit strong, so I tend to use less than I would of butter. Also, it doesn't bind things quite the same as butter. So for sauces and stuff, I use less otherwise things tend to just be oily on top. One thing I've done is to substitue olive oil for a lot of things I used to use butter for - especially sauteeing. For me, it's an easier adjustment to "change" a dish than to try to find a substitute that will make it "just the same". In other words, now I'm expecting a different taste and am not as dissapointed when the butter flavor is not there. I do admit that I hardly ate any corn on the cob last summer because that's just not the same when it's not dripping with butter! Kathy _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]