"bechamel" news and stories

Tomato soup test tubes. Photo: YumSugar.

Each Thursday, we round up a selection of scrumptious links from our friends over at YumSugar. Here's what they've got cooking this week:

Between vampire TV shows and movies and Halloween, now is the perfect time for a vampy shindig.

The basics of making the versatile and classic creamy béchamel.

Catfish becomes a Fast & Easy dinner with a quick cornmeal crust.

Floral arrangements can go veggie without a lot of carving talent.

Hmmm ... would you want to push that iconic wedge of lime into a Corona can?

Whiskey Sours get mixed in honor of San Francisco's Whiskey Week.

Do you read while you eat?

Call it white sauce, cheese sauce, Bechamel: the routine is the same. Fat, flour, spices, liquid, and the melting cheese. It's the first thing you should learn when you start out in the kitchen.

And more importantly, it's the basis for most every fifties casserole or delicious pasta dish. It's the basis for macaroni and cheese, tuna noodle casserole, hamburger pie. It's easy... I'll walk you through it.