[Sca-cooks] parmesan mornay
Nick Sasso
grizly at mindspring.com
Mon Jan 28 06:48:05 PST 2008
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A parmesan what? At least I have a rough idea of what an "Alfredo"
sauce is or should taste like. Like much of the public I wouldn't
know if a parmesan mornay included eels or just what.
Is the spinach there mainly for color? Or would you really taste it?
Maybe onions or chives.
Stefan > > > > >>
Sorry 'bout that. Bear fielded the main question. Bechamel is the 'mother
sauce' of roux-thickened milk, from which come several daughter sauces like
mornay (cheese), sauce creme (heavy cream), and soubise (onions). Veloute
(meat stock) is a cousin or near relative anyway that uses the roux to
thicken stock, then adds cream or milk.
The spinach in the amount of nearly 3 ounces of fresh baby leaves on the
pizza is there for flavor building as well as color, giving it an earthy
sort of tone rather than a full fledged spinach bite. Balancing act all in
all. The bacon is a smoky counter note to highten the whole favor profile.
Hope that answers what you were asking, Stefan.
niccolo
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