Demi-Glace / Foyot

This recipe is from way back when we watched the Buffy Season finale, "Prophecy Girl".  I won't repeat the recipes for steak or fries.  The Bearnaise recipe is also already posted, the difference with the Foyot Sauce is that I added about a tablespoon and a half of demi-glace.

This recipe uses Anthony Bourdain's recipe as a base, though I was nowhere near as exact as he is about it...:)

Ingredients:

Bones (I had beef/steak bones)
Tomato Paste
Flour

Peeled, roughly chopped onions
Peeled, roughly chopped carrots
Peeled, roughly chopped celery
2 bay leaves
peppercorns
fresh thyme

Bourbon
Peeled, chopped red onion


First preheat the oven to 350 degrees F.  On a baking sheet toss the bones with about a tablespoon or so of tomato paste (depending on how many bones) and same amount of flour (just dust the bones). Roast the bones to a brown color.

On a separate baking sheet, add peeled onions, carrots and celery.  The Bourdain recipe says to add about half as many onions as you have bones. I certainly didn't do that.  I probably had equal as many onions, only a couple carrots and a quarter celery.  Be careful about adding salt and pepper.  I may have added a little but remember this will reduce.

When everything has roasted and is carmelized/browned.  Dump into a large pot, top with water, add 2 bay leaves, a bunch of fresh thyme and some peppercorns.  Simmer for several hours. When done, you'll have made stock.

This is where I deviated from the Bourdain recipe.  In another stockpot, I added some Bourbon and chopped red onion, then added all the stock and reduced.  It takes a while and you only get a little demi-glace in the end, but I only use a little each time.  Again, for the Foyot Sauce, I only added about a tablespoon and a half.  The rest can then be frozen.

Prophecy Girl

Mark here...Laurel and I are here sitting down for another night of blogging and dinner.  Tonight I made us some steaks with bearnaise again.  This time to spice it up a bit I made a homemade demi-glace and added it to the bearnaise.  Laurel made us a kale salad to go along, which was a nice side to balance out all the fat!

We're on to the last episode of Season One of Buffy, "Prophecy Girl".  We had a few false starts trying to watch this episode, I think because the beginning is so slow.  Basically the episode starts with Xander confessing his love for Buffy, which doesn't turn out as he had hoped.  The big prophecy of the title is then revealed, via Giles, that Buffy will face the Master and die.  This is accidentally overheard by Buffy and she gives a  big "I don't want to die speech" that only an entertainment writer could love.

In any case, we find out prophecy's are tricky things.  Buffy herself allows the Master to go free and he kills her by leaving her to drown.  But Xander and Angel arrive in time to give her CPR.  It's a nice twist that sets up future things to come.  One of the shows main rules is that to each generation one slayer is born and the next one is called when that one dies.  Buffy effectively "dies' in this episode but is revived.  When she comes back she is revitalized and proceeds to take down the Master, who is killed at the end.

One other thing to note, Jenny Calendar is around and still annoying and out of place...like a resident of Melrose Place who's randomly in Sunnydale.  Every line from her sounds extremely awkward.

Laurel here..I agree.  The only thing to add is that this episode was awesomely 90s.  It's funny to see the producers/art department doing the best with what they had, and they really stretch it out here.   I'm proud of them for making a good looking (for the time) season finale with obviously limited resources.  Also I'm not sure how prom fits into all of this but Buffy ends up "dying" in her prom dress (a super boring white empire waist dress) which totally adds to the teenagerness of the whole situation.