Day 5 5/20/11

Thank God it's Friday and finally this week is over. The hollandaise massacre! Today I broke my hollandaise sauce 3 times and I did not understand why. was it me or my technique, the moisture in the room, the equipment I was using or what? I blame or me. This is a sauce that has taken me awhile to learn how to make and now that I know how, then why? I only can guess that even the best chefs will make mistakes once and awhile so I really should give myself a break. The sauce hollandaise isn't the easiest sauce to make, because it is a emulsion (an emulsion is a uniform mixture of two unmixable liquids) and its going to put up a fight and today I threw in the towel. But, I'LL BE BACK!!!!!!!