{"id":4308,"date":"2012-09-20T23:00:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T05:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=4308"},"modified":"2015-10-25T18:11:46","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T00:11:46","slug":"blt-with-homemade-mahonnaise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/?p=4308","title":{"rendered":"BLT with Homemade “Mah\u00f3nnaise”"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Facebook\"<\/a>\"twitter\"<\/a>\"rss\"<\/a>

Hello there,\u00a0today is\u00a0officially the last day of summer.\u00a0\u00a0I’m a bit \u00a0sad\u00a0because we’ve only had one BLT sandwich\u00a0this season (see the amazingly decadent picture below).\u00a0\u00a0I’ll wait until you wipe that drool off your face.\u00a0 To make our\u00a0one and only BLT of the season extra special, I decided to make some mayo.\u00a0 Because of the cooler weather, the chickens have been happily laying eggs.\u00a0 So much so that I had 3 dozen eggs from friends in the fridge.\u00a0 Not that making mayo was going to make a huge dent in the supply, I merely wanted to show you how cool I was to have friends who raise chickens.\u00a0 Thanks to Brett, Chris, and Steve.\u00a0 Yes, it is simple things like this that\u00a0make me happy.<\/p>\n

Heaven<\/em><\/p>\n

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This special sauce\u00a0is said to have been\u00a0invented by the chef to Duke Richelieu at a banquet to celebrate the capture of Port Mah\u00f3n\u00a0in Spain in the mid 1700’s.\u00a0 Traditional sauce back then was made with cream and eggs.\u00a0 The chef was without cream so he used olive oil instead.\u00a0 He\u00a0called it \u201cMah\u00f3nnaise\u201d after the victory against the British rule.\u00a0 The French then introduced the sauce back home and that’s where the sauce started to gain its popularity.\u00a0 The Spanish also claim to have invented this “Maonesa” sauce.\u00a0 It is possible that the Duke’s chef may have picked up the new sauce from the Spanish.\u00a0 Whatever the truth may be, I’m very\u00a0glad the sauce was invented.<\/p>\n

I followed the hand-beaten mayo recipe<\/a> by Julia Child.\u00a0 I actually had to make a second batch because the texture of the first batch was too thin.\u00a0 The texture of the second\u00a0batch came out just right because I ommited one tablespoon\u00a0of the boiling water of the two called for \u00a0in the recipe.\u00a0 I was also a bit more patient and added the oil a little bit at a time until I got the right consistency.\u00a0 When you can swirl the whisk and the markings do not disappear right away, it is\u00a0ready.<\/p>\n

We enjoyed our giant BLT sandwhich made with Marr’s<\/a> bacon, and Shooting Star’s<\/a> lettuce and heirloom tomatoes.\u00a0 Dressed with\u00a0the freshly made lemony-yellow sauce\u00a0and everything packed\u00a0in between\u00a0some crusty bread, the taste was like a really fast rewind of the entire season.\u00a0 For dessert, a small bowl of yellow raspberries from Bures<\/a>.\u00a0 What\u00a0a\u00a0glorious last\u00a0taste of summer!<\/p>\n

Sweeter than Red Raspberries<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hello there,\u00a0today is\u00a0officially the last day of summer.\u00a0\u00a0I’m a bit \u00a0sad\u00a0because we’ve only had one BLT sandwich\u00a0this season (see the amazingly decadent picture below).\u00a0\u00a0I’ll wait until you wipe that drool off your face.\u00a0 To make our\u00a0one and only BLT of the season extra special, I decided to make some mayo.\u00a0 Because of the cooler weather, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4310,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[155,157,471,469,470,125,137,26],"class_list":["post-4308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home-cooking","tag-bacon","tag-blt","tag-mahonnaise","tag-mayo","tag-mayonnaise","tag-raspberries","tag-sandwich","tag-tomatoes","has-featured-image"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4308"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5851,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4308\/revisions\/5851"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/driftlessappetite.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}