I bloody did it!
I nailed the hollandaise (read previous post before this one).
I didn't think I was going to.
But I did. Tonight. For dinner.
It was a team effort.
Without the butter clarifying expertise of Geeko (bro-in-law) we would never have made it.
Without Chanel's suggestion of buying a better mixing bowl and to reduce the bain marie heat to less than a simmer (so I didn't bloody scramble those egg yolks again), we would never have made it.
And make it we did!
In fact, we made more than a hollandaise, we made a bearnaise sauce for our dry-aged steak. Apparently, a bearnaise is just hollandaise with the addition of fresh tarragon and parsley (Btw, I'm falling in love with magnificent anise flavoured tarragon)!
We did the bearnaise in my first cooking class at L'Atelier des Chefs a couple of weeks ago, it was a day class on sauces.
Soooooooooooooo...take a good look at the pics above, the first pic is the one taken in our cooking class, and the second one there is of my dinner tonight, Steak with Bearnaise Sauce, roasted new potatoes and rocket salad.
And how did it taste??? One word.
Perfecto!
Bring on the Eggs Benedict baby!!! (For non-foodies, Eggs Benedict is poached eggs on English Muffins smothered in hollandaise sauce!)
Well that's all very nice Supergal, but I still can't drag my eyes off that Valentino handbag of The Princess's - presumably you have one tucked away in your luggage for me, of course.
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Of course! (quickly rushes to book flight to Milan to purchase cheap Valentino handbag for Lilymagnolia - hang on...is there any such thing as a cheap Valentino??)
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