This weekend I did several adventurous culinary things. After a long night of partying I woke up and made Eggs Benedict using Alton Brown's Hollandaise recipe. Not easy. When I finished it looked beautiful! Nice and creamy and rich, but by the time I was ready to serve it had congealed and looked like yellow brains. AGH!! All that work for something that was, although still delicious, looked like crap! Oh well... I need to figure out how restaurants manage to make large quantities of hollandaise and manage to keep it from becoming zombie fodder.
So, I have no pictures of anything that I did this weekend. Sorry... I was hungover. Shut up. But to go with my eggs benedict, I made a fruit smoothie. During the summer months I was making them every damn day. Fresh fruit was cheap and readily available and everything was good. I went to the grocery store on Sunday morning and a box of blueberries was $7!! Oh HEEEEELLLLLLL NO! So I decided to go the frozen route and was pleasantly surprised. While not as good as fresh fruit, it was really pretty good. Here's what I did:
1/2 lb frozen blueberries
1/2 lb frozen raspberries
1/2 pineapple
1 banana
1-2 cups orange juice
2-3 Tablespoons yogurt
2-3 Tablespoons good local honey (buy local whenever possible)
A pinch of salt
Directions: Put everything in the blender. Blend. Drink. Enjoy.
So that evening I made another batch of creme brulee, but I decided to do something a little different to it. I added half a cup of espresso to it (and added an extra egg since I was upping the liquid). It turned out fantastic!
Tonight if the rain holds off I'm going to grill some chicken. If it rains, I'll bake it. We'll see.
-CJ
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