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  • Recipe Perfect Bechamel Sauce
    Perfect Bechamel Sauce (1 vote)
    All the  bechamel  recipes I found use plain flour. I have found that by far, the best and lightest  bechamel  is made using corn flour. (corn starch, for Americans) Another trick is when adding the cornflour to the butter[...]
  • Recipe *Cream Gravy, (bechamel)
    *Cream Gravy, (bechamel)
    If I had to choose two things every home cook should know how to make it would probably be Homemade Pie Crust  and a basic bechamel (white sauce). Fairly simple and fast to make and as far as I'm concerned its really the foundation of a[...]
  • Recipe Boiled Artichokes with Tarragon Bechamel Dipping Sauce
    Boiled Artichokes with Tarragon Bechamel Dipping Sauce
    Ingredients 6 artichokes 4 tbsp butter about 6 tbsp of flour about 1 1/2 cup milk 2 tbsp tarragon 3 tbsp White wine vinegar salt and white pepper. If you don’t have a pressure cooker this is a great time to buy one.[...]
  • Recipe Lasagne
    Lasagne
    Lasagne  This is one of my favourite dishes. Many recipes do not use  bechamel sauce but I find that this makes the dish ever so tasty! Ingredients for the sauce: 2 onions: 1 brown, 1 white 1 glove of garlic 1 leek[...]
  • Recipe Crab Stuffed Manicotti
    Crab Stuffed Manicotti
    Pasta - I love it! What's not to like about it?! It's warm and comforting, satisfying, soulful and most important of all, real easy to make. And, it is even easier to jazz up many notches to make a special, thoughtful meal that can stand its own[...]
  • Recipe Moussaka for the Holidays
    Moussaka for the Holidays
    I absolutely love moussaka . I used to have it all the time when I lived in NewYork - it was on alomost every diner menu. And it was always done well. The Béchamel topping was always thick and firm, but not dry. But finding moussaka in San[...]
  • Recipe Holiday Cheesecake, and Christmas Memories
    Holiday Cheesecake, and Christmas Memories
    As the year is dwindling down, and Christmas is over, a New Year is awaiting us to start "anew" with a clean slate of resolutions, and promises. Leaving the old year with fond memories, and some sadness...not just what kinds of gifts we got[...]
  • Recipe Recipe:  Bechamel Sauce (Classic White Sauce)
    Recipe: Bechamel Sauce (Classic White Sauce)
    This recipe for Bechamel or Classic White Sauce is one of the most popular basic sauces. It is the base for many other sauces and is quick and easy to make.For tips on sauce making? see my Cooking Tip of the Day? Sauce Making Basics.Enjoy!PRINT[...]
  • Recipe Light Bechamel
    Light Bechamel
    The bechamel is a creamy, white sauce which smells of nutmeg. This is my "light" version, without using butter, but the healthier olive oil. Nobody will note the difference except my husband's cholesterol index :)[...]
  • Recipe Cooking Basics - Béchamel sauce
    Cooking Basics - Béchamel sauce
    Give a man a fish; you have fed him for today. Teach a man to fish; and you have fed him for a lifetime. That adage applies to cooking too! :) There are a few basics techniques that when mastered can be built upon to create more sophisticated and[...]