jennyema
Chef Extraordinaire
bechamel sauce.....sounds so fancy, I'd have to look it up. Is it simply a 'white sauce' (what my mother always called it)?....made by melting butter, adding flour, then milk or cream, whisking, cooking on low until thick.....?
I add whatever cheese I have on hand to this, to make a cheese sauce.
Yes. A béchamel sauce to which cheese has been added is called Mornay Sauce.
Make sure you add the cheese with the base sauce off the heat. If it's too hot your sauce will be grainy. It just needs to be hot enough to melt the cheese.