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Day 66: Hollandaise Sauce

"As early as 1651, François Pierre La Varenne describes a sauce similar to Hollandaise sauce in his groundbreaking cookbook Le Cuisinier François: "avec du bon beurre frais, un peu de vinaigre, sel et muscade, et un jaune d’œuf pour lier la sauce" - wikipidia

According to my extensive knowledge of the french language what he is saying is, "with the good french brew, of the vinegar, and mustard, my little Jane devoured all the sauce."

Well what a review from little Jane! If you can get any kid to devour a sauce of vinegar and mustard I say props to the guy! After tasting this sauce I'm with Jane. This is the sauce on one of my favorite breakfasts - eggs benedict. I'm still perfecting the vegan'ised recipe but here is the sauce....Thank you Francois and little Jane!

Hollandaise Sauce

basic white sauce

1-2 tsp mustard

1-2 tsp white vinegar

1 pinch paprika

Blend everything together. This sauce should be a light yellow in color and have a mild tang to it. Try this over vegan sausage or steamed asparagus.
basic white sauce mustard paprika
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Day 64: White Sauce/Alfredo

The other day I needed a white sauce for a new casserole I was concocting - recipe to follow - and Matthew got all excited when I started cooking the beans. Matthew always gets excited when I start cooking beans. He came into our kitchen, which is finished being remodeled by the way!!!, and with a smile on his face and a sparkle in his eye said, "ohh, are we having soup?"
"No" I replied
"oh, a bean salad"
"Nope"
"oh no, are you concocting?"
"yep"
His smile left the kitchen faster than he did. At dinner as he sat eyeing everything looking for his much anticipated beans they were no where to be found...so he thought. He ate his dinner and it was only after he had raved about the "fish" and white sauce that I told him where the beans were. Now he insists it be put on the list.
You may think that a sauce based on beans would be, well, beany but it's not. If fact you can't taste the beans at all and the consistency is so beautifully creamy you'd swear it was fat and flour based. So give this a whirl in place of your white sauce. It offers protein instead of fat and works up faster than any white sauce I've ever made, no whisking....and no lumps!

Basic White Sauce
1 c cooked small white lima beans
1 clove garlic
1 tb evoo
salt to taste

Place everything in your food processor and puree till creamy. Serve hot. This basic white sauce can be transformed into many different kinds of sauces eg: hollandaise, Alfredo, gravy etc....recipes to follow

Alfredo Sauce

Basic white sauce from above
vegetable broth
garlic powder
white vinegar

To make this an Alfredo sauce just add vegetable broth till it is the consistency you are looking for, then add garlic and vinegar to taste.
evoo garlic powder small white lima beans
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