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[yagathai]

Tonight: Crab cakes (recipe calls for tarragon and rice? I'm dubious, but I'm giving them a shot), simple fried potatoes and some steamed asparagus in a homemade hollandaise.

Previous attempts to make hollandaise have been... unkind to me in the past, but this time I have Alton Brown on my side. Let's see if his sexy nerd powers can help me get over this hump.

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[babyraven.livejournal.com]

Wait... humping Alton Brown whatwhat?

[terraprime.livejournal.com]

I think I used Brown's recipe for Hollaindais, too, and it turned out quite well.

Unfortunately, once I made it, I decided that it's entirely too unhealthy, and have never made it again.

[xraytheenforcer.livejournal.com]

I have a 50% success rate with hollandaise. The first attempt went well, which makes no sense because I was inebriated at the time and we made no efforts to control temperature. Still, the emulsion did not break. I can only surmise that Bacchus himself cast his beneficence over the proceedings.

The second attempt, I was stone cold sober and precise and the result was a fucking disaster. I've never tried again.

[regina-of-york.livejournal.com]

Blessed by Bacchus!

I think I'm going to make this my phrase of the day, just to mess with people.

AB is my hero

[petitbout.livejournal.com]

sexy and nerd are not mutually exclusive, no?