T has been watching some of the Ramsey shows. Hell's Kitchen and if he has some other shows them as well. I haven't seen them, so I'm not sure how accurate this is, but apparently Ramsey always makes them make Beef Wellington. Its always wrong, and he always yells about it. Its supposed to be really hard, and T got it in his head we should try. He googled a recipe and sent it my way. I bought ingredients and we went at it.
While making it we hit a few hitches. The major being that neither of us knew what it was supposed to look like or what was involved. We had a surprise guest, Aly's sister showed up, which only added to the pressure of cooking with an audience. We could basically feel Ramsey there.
We learned a lot about cooking on this project. Like that you can mush pastry cracks back together with milk/water before you cook them and they pretty much mesh back together. We also improvised an hour d'oeuvre. Steamed broccoli, then we layered swiss cheese and diced ham on top of it, then threw it in the oven till it melted. It was basically like nachos and awesome. We made that up on the fly. We also made a dessert, parfaits. We bought yogurt, and added strawberries, granola, and some sugar to them. Also great, and a nice healthy light dessert. You will probably see both of those sides in a future meal.
In the end, the food came out undercooked once we sliced it.Which per T, is exactly what happens on the show. We went ahead and cut the rest, and put it back in for "a bit". It turned out alright after that. The sauce was really good, but there was so little of it that I don't think most people bothered.
Now we know for next time.
-Jeff
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