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After reading responses to your request, Magnifico, you may wish to revert to your usual roux recipe.

If it works, don't fix it.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:20:16 PM EST
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to quote an award winning chef and friend of mine, you dont do things like that by recipe, you do them till they look right. mix your butter and flour together till you have the right consistency, by sight, then add milk till that looks right.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:35:03 PM EST
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Well, that's cool if you make roux really often. For most of us, having quantities of butter and flour that fit with (in this case) a half litre of milk, is helpful.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:44:49 PM EST
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What the devil are you going to do with 600ml (more or less) of roux?

BTW, the secret is equal amounts, by weight, of fat and flour.  Doesn't matter what fat as long as it is compatible with the rest of the ingredients of the dish.  Most people always use butter or/and milk cuz they are wusses, unadventurous stick-in-the-muds going for the mediocre.  

by ATinNM on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 07:10:45 PM EST
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The half-litre is from the recipe Magnifico is using. Presumably Fearless-Twittingstall from the Guardian knows what he's going to do with that much béchamel. Or mornay, since he's putting cheese in it.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue Dec 29th, 2009 at 04:50:37 AM EST
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Actually, true roux ingredients are not measured in T or tsp, rather half snake skulls. Mixed with ground bone and hair, and herbs gathered at midnight on a full moon.  Allowed to dry after cooking, and sewn into bags placed under enemies pillows.

Likely, however, you meant the cooking roux, not the gris gris stuff.

i go now.  (PS. nice recept, sounds delicious, yes i read it.)

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:35:49 PM EST
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Trust you to give the game away.
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:41:43 PM EST
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A strange psychic force overcame my resistance, and there i was hitting post.  Sorry, afew.

Say, how's that goose liver lasting?  Still delicious?

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:47:34 PM EST
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That one's duck, not goose. Though the size was in goose territory.

There's not much left. No, it has lost savour. It was best when first dug out of the fat and cut into. Either that or I've had so much fat duck my palate's jaded. Dat's a serious possibility.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 04:54:12 PM EST
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All roads roux lead eventually to Dr. John, and here's a voodoo treat.

yaw father's a gumbo cooker
yo mamma's a alligator hooker

and the voo doo rap at the end is killer.

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaïs Nin

by Crazy Horse on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 05:25:04 PM EST
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Hey - that was roux, not roué.

I get those confused too.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Mon Dec 28th, 2009 at 06:28:56 PM EST
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