Mayonaise

I am not a fan of mayonnaise, well not store bought anyway. Making your own is, easy, better for you and well, opens the door for mayo adventures! Get the basic down, then you can make ...well endless flavors! In this recipe I used duck eggs, you can follow this recipe and use chicken eggs as well. The duck eggs make a wonderfully thick creamy mayo. And depending on the oil you use, it will only cost about $ 3.00 to make 2 cups! This is so flavorful, you don't need much, you have control over what goes into it and it will keep refrigerated about 2 weeks.

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2 eggs (duck or chicken) Slate Creek Farm has great duck eggs!
2 c oil (I use a 50/50 combo of Extra virgin olive oil and Grapeseed oil)
1 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tbap lemon juice
kosher or sea salt and fresh ground pepper (most times I use Black pepper, but white pepper is great!)



In a bowl of a food processor or blender (and if you are brave a bowl and whisk!!)
Crack the eggs into the bowl, add a pinch of salt and a good crank of pepper, lemon juice and the mustard.

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Give it a whirl for 30-45 seconds or work that arm muscle and whisk away!! (all the kneading I do making breads, the hand whisk is the last thing I want to do ha!)

 

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With the machine running slowly and in a steady stream add the oil. Pour for 30 seconds, stop pouring for 10 seconds (leave the machine running). Repeat this until about half of the oil is gone.

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Sorry for bad photo here, who know it would be so hard to pour with one hand and try to take a photo with the other!! haha but you get the idea!

Once half the oil is in, you can just continue to pour in a steady stream, until desired thickness is reached. (the duck eggs only needed about 1 1/2 c of oil) Stop the machine, scrape down, taste and adjust seasoning as needed.

Now is when you would add in any extras: chopped fresh basil (maybe basil and sundried tomatoes!), chives, scallions, my new fav, green (spring) garlic!!, rosemary, thyme, tarragon, lemon balm.....or use several herb!

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TADA!!!