Amy Adams likes butter -- she recently confessed to having reintroduced it to her diet. She swears cooking eggs in butter makes them “really, really good.” Duh. If being a celebrity means not knowing that butter makes everything better, then I’m happy to be a nobody. Sure, there’s a little issue with weight. Both Adams and Meryl Streep are making no secret of how they put on the poundage during filming of Julie & Julia. Streep jokingly blamed the gain on director Nora Ephron, who encouraged a lot of eating on the set. If you’re going to do a movie about a woman determined to make every single recipe in a Julia Child cookbook, porking out is natural collateral damage. This is the kind of celebrity news I can use. I don’t care how Valerie Bertinelli managed to get herself back into a bikini. I want to see celebrities eating and drinking and being normal-sized. Hey Amy, this just in. Butter is also really good on pancakes. Especially decadent, golden-browned lemon popup pancakes.

Buttery Lemon Popup Pancake 1/2 stick butter 1/2 cup milk 1/2 cup flour 2 eggs Half a lemon 2-3 tbl powdered sugar

Preheat oven to 425˚. Melt butter in a cast-iron skillet over med-low heat. Combine flour, milk, and eggs in a bowl and blend to lumpy batter. Pour batter into the melted butter in the iron skillet and then bake at 425˚ for 20 minutes or until the pancake is puffy and golden brown. Remove from the oven and squeeze the fresh lemon juice over the top. Sprinkle the 2-3 tablespoons of powdered sugar on top and return to the oven for 3-4 minutes. Serve hot with fresh fruit, drizzling any remaining melted brown butter still in the pan over the plate. Serves 2-4.