This is one of those posts that has been waiting to be written for just about forever. I have already made this meal twice...and managed to get zero pictures and am just now writing about it! We have breakfast for dinner regularly, but recently found a new favorite...eggs benedict. The only down side to this meal is that it takes a little multitasking, especially when you are making biscuits and sausage gravy alongside (in all fairness we were having guests, better to have too much that too little). You must also learn how to do two things that aren't that difficult, yet hardly anyone I've met knows how to do them: poach an egg and make hollandaise sauce.
As far as egg poaching, it's easy as long as you are not a perfectionist...which poses a serious problem for me in the kitchen. You pour a raw egg into a pot of boiling vinegar water, and wait. The entire time they are cooking you will think you've failed, but then you pull out of the bubbly, egg foam-filled water...a beautiful, delicious, and healthy poached egg. All of this takes place in less than five minutes.
That's where the healthy part ends. To make hollandaise sauce you mix together in a blender, a stick (yes, a whole stick) of hot, melted butter, three egg yolks (there's your cholesterol for the week), salt and pepper, and lemon juice. The result is a light, frothy sauce that tastes like butter with a hint of lemon....it's awesome. To finish, stack a toasted english muffin half, a warm slice of canadian bacon, an egg, top with sauce, and prepare to be amazed! I will also testify that biscuits and gravy make an excellent side dish for this meal:).
If you have never tried breakfast for dinner, you should, it is better than breakfast for breakfast. My husband's reasoning for this phenomenon..."Breakfast might be the most important meal of the day, but dinner is the most enjoyable." I couldn't agree more.
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