I really wish I had some witty commentary to introduce a simple how-to post, but I’ve got nothin’. It happens. It’s been an incredibly long week! I spent Saturday night in the woods camping (yes, I went camping. Weird, right?), then spend the next few days tending to my epileptic dog. Then it was time to head to Thomasville on a work trip (more on that later!). So yeah, it’s Friday and my brain is fried.

But I will say – brown butter is awesome. And this is how you do it.

Grab a stick of butter out of the fridge and chop it up into fifths and place in a small pot or pan. While you can brown butter over higher heat, I prefer to do it over medium to keep myself from burning it.

Let the butter slowly melt, gently stirring with a whisk continuously.

A month or so ago, I had a pretty serious meltdown one morning when my beloved Keurig wouldn’t brew. It was a total catastrophe (as it always is whenever you can’t get coffee and you need it ASAP). In the midst of my panic, I remembered someone saying something to me about mineral build ups in Keurigs and having to clean them fairly regularly, so I did what any child of the technology age would do: I consulted Google and learned how to de-scale my Keurig. I’m always one for sharing knowledge, so here’s how I did it!

I started out with an empty Keurig, 8oz. of undiluted white vinegar and a large coffee mug. You want to make sure you’re close to a sink, as you’ll probably have to dump liquid out.

Pour the 8 oz. of white vinegar into the water reservoir and shut the lid. Place coffee cup under the spout.

Perform a brew, without a K-Cup. When it’s finished, pour the “brewed” white vinegar from the coffee cup back into the water reservoir and let it sit for half an hour. Perform another K-Cup-less brew. Pour whatever is brewed into the coffee cup into the sink. Perform another final brew with filtered water and no K-Cup to remove any white vinegar residue.

Crazy easy, I know.