Christmas Day
Posted by foodiejr on December 25, 2007
On Christmas day, I learned how to make Bechamel sauce: Basic white sauce
Bechamel Sauce
5 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons flour
4 cups milk
5 pinches of salt
A couple grates of nutmeg
You have to melt the butter in a sauce pan.Once it is melted, add the flour and mix until all is blended. Add milk and stir until smooth.
Add 5 pinches of salt and nutmeg and you are done.
My Nonna and I made white lasagna out of the Bechamel sauce. It is call white lasagna because it doesn’t have any tomato sauce on it.
My mom and I made lasagna with red sauce. We made fresh ricotta cheese. The word ricotta in Italian means cooked again. For those people who don’t know what ricotta cheese is… it is that crumbly white cheese you find in lasagna.. Sort of like cottage cheese but a little drier.
For Christmas I got lots of presents. The two foodie presents I got were my own set of pots and pans and a FOODIEJR sweat shirt.
