My Home Made Mayonnaise
Last night, I dreamed that I was making mayonnaise in my blender. In the past, I have been trying to make mayonnaise by hand and using a blender only to end up with a watery substance. But because of my dream (where I successfully made mayonnaise using a blender), I told myself that I should try again. 😊 This time though, instead of ending up with a watery substance I got real thick mayonnaise (just like in my dream)! 🙌 I think that what made the difference was following the recipe to the letter. In the past, I haven't been doing so because the recipes I found online called for a lot of oil and uggh, who wants to eat oil right? But I realized that mayonnaise is a product of emulsion which is a chemical process, therefore, the amount of oil in the recipe had to be followed. The ingredients I used for my homemade mayonnaise were oil , eggs , salt , mustard powder, vinegar , basil, and garlic. However, the mustard powder, basil, and garlic are optional. This is the result