This contest is now closed, Linda is our winner. Thanks for entering! I hope one of my readers wins the big trip!
It is no secret that I love butter. A few years ago I stopped using margarine and started using butter exclusively. I am thankful that the commissary prices are reasonable because I buy eight pounds of butter a month! I use it in most of my recipes! From pasta to pancakes it is one of my cooking staples.
I was thrilled when Challenge Butter contacted me and asked if I wanted to give some butter to my readers! For those of you who are still using margarine, please enter this giveaway so you have a chance to taste the difference.
Sauces are tastier, soups are creamy, and frosting is yummier when you use real butter in your recipes. If you have some wiggle room in your grocery budget I highly recommend switching to butter.
Challenge Butter is also sponsoring a few great giveaways on their website. You can enter to win A Taste of the West vacation, a 7-day/6-night trip for 4 people to the incredible Mountain Sky Guest Ranch (mtnsky.com) in Montana’s Paradise Valley, just North of Yellowstone National Park.
In addition to world-class fine dining, the guest ranch features cozy accommodations, horseback riding, hiking, fishing, rock climbing, clay shooting and much more! Revive, rejuvenate and reconnect with a variety of activities for everyone.
Airfare, food, accommodations and certain activities are all-included in this $17,000 luxury getaway.
A runner-up will win a $850 kitchen package from Spice Islands and OXO.
Visit the website to enter to win and read all the fine print.
To win 3 coupons for Free Challenge Butter please leave a comment on this post. I will pick a winner Friday, November 27, 2009.
This potato soup recipe is a great way to use up those Thanksgiving/ Christmas leftovers, and one of my many recipes in which butter makes it better. It makes a great meal or side dish.
- 5 pounds of potatoes, peeled and quartered (if you are using red potatoes you can keep the skin on if you like potato skin in your soup).
- 1 onion diced
- 1 Stick of butter
- Chopped ham
- Salt, Pepper, Garlic to taste
- Milk
Boil potatoes and onion for about twenty minutes.
Drain (but save the water)
Put the potatoes and onion back on the stove top and add about 2 cups of the potato water back into the pot
Add 1 stick of butter
Mash the potatoes to the desired consistency. The more you mash the smoother the soup will be.
Add chopped ham and salt, pepper, and garlic to taste.
Then add milk, until you reach the desired consistency.
Cook on the stove for about 10 minutes and then serve.
Garnish with cheese.
Don’t throw away the extra potato water, use it instead of water to bake your next loaf of bread. Your loaf will be amazing!
This is not the bread pictured with the soup, this is our potato bread for French toast.
The bread pictured with the soup is whole wheat rosemary asiago bread.
You can modify this recipe to use your leftover mashed potatoes from Thanksgiving. Adjust the amount of potatoes based on how much mashed potatoes you have leftover. Add them when you are mashing the cooked potatoes.
Someone told me one time that margarine is only a few molecules away from plastic and I have been happily using butter ever since! I don’t know how true it is, but that idea was enough for my health conscious part to win out over my frugal part. Thanks for the giveaway!
I am a new follower, as of a couple of hours ago. I found you on Facebook through a friend. I’m looking foward to reading your site. I’d love some buter coupons.
I think we go through about 5 lbs a month, and I only have two kids (so far!). So, thanks for the opportunity to win some!!
We love Challenge butter… it’s actually the only brand of real butter I’ve purchased, and we liked it so much that we haven’t tried anything else. The budget’s been tight lately though, so I’ve been sticking to olive oil in recipes. It would be great to have a “butter treat!”
We also switched from ‘spreads’ a year or two ago…now only butter! I’d love a coupon.
thank you! great giveaway.
Butter is the only way to go. I haven’t bought margarine (or “oleo” as my Gram’ma used to call it) for years. Get yourselves a butter bell and you’ll never have to worry about the butter being to hard to spread on anything.
I had to laugh when I read what you’d made for dinner here. My mom is the freaking Queen of Soups and this is one of her old standbys. It was a running joke between my dad and I; when one asked what was for dinner the other always answered “Potato soup!” LOL My poor mom. Its a wonder she stuck with us for all these years.
It has been ages since I’ve had any though and now I think I’ll buy some extra potatoes so I can remedy that.
=) N
I have also heard about how close margarine is to plastic. Yuck. I’ve been using only real butter for years now and it is definitely much more delicious!
I love Challenge butter! There is a definite difference in taste.
Oh my goodness I love to cook with butter!!
I agree – butter is much better than margarine! Hope I win!
Monica
Love your site…fellow Air Force wife!! I love butter!!
What a great challenge. I made the switch to butter about a year ago. I know it’s a bit more expensive, but it’s more natural, and it also makes everything taste better