Food

[lokheed]

I just want to go on record as saying it's probably a good thing Kris isn't here yet to experience my cooking. Apparently the Thanksgiving turkey was a fluke. I mean seriously, how can you possibly screw up baked macaroni and cheese?

6:31pm Update:
I refuse to be beaten by a damned Béchamel. I know what I did wrong, and dammit I am going to have my baked mac and cheese tonight if it kills me. I'm off to the store for more sharp cheddar and milk.

Grr.

Comments

[damashita.livejournal.com]

Watching Good Eats last night, eh?

i am curious as to how you messed that one up. :D heheh!

[lokheed.livejournal.com]

I screwed up the Béchamel in two ways: I didn't have the milk ready to pour into the flour/butter mixture, so that although I had kept it nice and creamy during the first five minutes I had to set down the whisk to go measure the milk. Because I didn't have a large enough measuring cup, it took two measurings and pourings to get it, and during the minute or so it took for me to do that, the flour/butter mixture lost its creaminess. By the time I stirred in the milk instead of getting a nice, creamy butter sauce what I had was three cups of milk with peppery bits of butter/flour floating in it. I should have stopped right then and started over with the sauce, but I was too boneheaded to realize just how badly off course I was.

My second error was in not dicing the onion finely enough.

Grr.

[damashita.livejournal.com]

Hey, at least you know what went wrong. Next time you'll pre-measure the milk into a bowl or jug so it'll be ready to go... and the onion... well, get one of those Pampered Chef choppers, they are great! :)

[lokheed.livejournal.com]

I actually have a little food processor, just a little one cup reservoir with the rotating blade at the bottom and two speeds. It just didn't occur to me to use it the first time around. The second time I diced up the onion enough to get it going and let the food processor do the rest of the work. I ended up with half a cup of teensy-weensy onion bits that blended very well into the sauce.

I gotta remember to pull that thing out more often.

[(Anonymous)]

"I gotta remember to pull that thing out more often."

That's what *she* said!

Thank you folks! I'll be here all week! Try the veal!(It's a joke! I would never seriously urge anyone to eat veal, it's a disgusting, disgusting thing they do to the poor little calves.)

~Kris~

(I'm almost embarrassed to sign my name, I'm in a mood, so what the hey!)