Can you tell what is taking up space in my brain? No, not the potato - knife skills. When we come back from Christmas break it is our knife skills final and our Cuisine I final - mother sauces and small sauces.
You may be wondering why I am obsessed with this at this juncture... good question. I'll obsess later.
Okay, I got up from my seat, made some coffee and so I'm ready to obsess again. Did you think I meant a lot later?
So... yesterday was "modern" sauces; in other words sauces without butter. Coulis, pestos, and chutneys, but we started with the last Mother Sauce - Hollandaise and it's small sauce Bearnaise - I broke my Bernaise. B-R-O-K-E it. We were taught had to "rescue" a broken sauce and it worked, but it felt tantamount to forgetting my knives... well maybe not quite that bad. I think I let the egg yolks get a little too cool while adding the warm clarified butter. We also made Buerre Blanc and Buerre Rouge.
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