Thursday, January 2, 2014

YORKSHIRE PUDDING CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!

I sometimes take breaks from being a full on nerd to my part time culinary nerd self.  Of course I wear a Star Wars apron while I am doing it so I don't step to far away from full nerd.  We watch Alton, Bizarre Foods, we watch Restaurant Impossible, and we watch Gordon...I love Gordon !  there I said it.  My mind stumbled across yorkshire pudding the other day, it just popped in there.  I don't know what we were doing or talking about but there it was...yorkshire pudding.  The big guy tells me that it is one of the most difficult things to make right and that Gordon frequently turns chefs into whining piles of goo when they make it poorly.  Well, my mind set is that if Gordon Ramsay can do it then why can't I? right? I mean he is only a world renowned chef with hit tv series and I ...well I can make waffles from scratch so we are almost equal.  I set to my task, I studied the greats, I looked up dozens of versions of the recipes (Rocky theme song in the background please it will help with the mood of my story), I trained for days whisking and letting things rest.  Okay, truth is I watched one you tube video and looked up one recipe and ...
see for yourself they were perfect!!! IN YOUR FACE GORDON!!!