Hollandaise Sauce

Ingredients:

  • 3 egg yolks
  • 1 lemon’s worth lemon juice
  • 1 tsp warm water
  • 6-7 oz. melted butter
  • salt and pepper and Tabasco to taste

Directions:

Mix in stainless steel bowl, mix cold until fluffy. Then mixing continuously heat in a double boiler until a change of color and it is warm to touch. Be careful – don’t overcook! Mixing continuously drizzle in 6-7 oz. melted butter that isn’t too hot. Stir and stir until it changes consistency. Finish with salt and pepper and Tabasco.

Comments:

From my longtime friend, Ari Sobel, who graduated from The Culinary Institute & Cornell and who helped me maintain my sense of humor in high school which has a way of sucking the life out of someone.