Showing posts with label mayonnaise. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mayonnaise. Show all posts

Thursday, January 18, 2018

News From the Kitchen

Our warm up has been slow to arrive:  10° here this morning,  but up to 38° this afternoon.
I am ordering a heated pet warmer this morning....maybe that will bring on a heat wave.  Poor DH has been having to clean and refill the myriad cats water twice daily.  This should save him some time and steps.

Kitchen

I have always wondered about making mayonnaise but read a lot of  things about it being very tricky and  many reported disasters or talked about having to re-do it.  What really got me interested is our Son who has been very serious about eating only 'real' foods and zero processed food has tried it with sorry results.

I found an extremely simple and fast recipe by Martha Stewart  that, for a change, didn't call for any exotic ingredients.

https://www.marthastewart.com/340597/basic-mayonnaise

I tried my larger processor but the blade didn't touch the small  amount of egg yolks so I switched to my mini one and used  the two tiny holes in the top to add the oil.  It worked beautifully and  I was delighted with the end result.  We don't normally even  like mayo, but this has a tartness to it and DH and I both liked it a lot.  We had some on a sandwich yesterday.



I  suspect the larger processor  would work if I just started drizzling the oil raising the  level of the ingredients.

 It only keeps a week in the fridge so I will probably be forced into making a  cake!

It can be the base of many salad dressings and other toppings so maybe no cake.