Mother Sauces: Secondary Sauces Part 2b: Mornay Sauce & Sauce Suprême

Become a sauce master: Here’s Part 2 of chef Johnny Gnall’s tutorial on the secondary sauces, featuring Mornay Sauce and Sauce Suprême. Start at the beginning of the article with: Part 1: The Five Mother Sauces Part 2a: Secondary Sauces, Creole & Suprême     BÉCHAMEL SAUCE BECOMES MORNAY SAUCE It’s easy to make a…
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Mother Sauces Part 2a: The Secondary Sauces, Creole & Béarnaise

[1] Turn plain tomato sauce into Creole sauce (photo © Andrew Bossi | Wikipedia). [2] Shrimp with Creole sauce. Here’s the recipe (photo © Eating Well).   Earlier this week we introduced the five mother sauces, noting that each was the base for many other secondary sauces. Today, chef Johnny Gnall explains how the secondary…
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TIP OF THE DAY: Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream

We became overly fond of Ben & Jerry’s new Banana Greek Frozen Yogurt with Peanut Buttery Swirls. But after we finished the two pints sent to us by Ben & Jerry’s, we couldn’t find the flavor locally. Necessity being the mother of invention, we experimented with making our own PB swirl ice cream. To please…
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