Things I Want To Eat! Vegetable Eggs Benedict!

Vegetable Eggs Benedict.

Lets start with Holondaise (I have realized I have no idea how to spell this word) sauce.

Grab (For 2 people)
 4 eggs
1 stick of butter
the juice of two lemons (or one i cannot remember don't dump it in when its time add gradually and taste)

Separate the egg yolks set aside, then cut the butter into pieces for easy handling

Now this is important get a big glass of hot water.

Start a double boiler system preferably metal. So one pot boiling water and some sort of smaller metal thing to dip in the water for heat.

Now this is weird and I'm not sure if my method is how its supposed to be done, if you melt too much butter first your sauce will separate, of you don't put enough butter in the yolks will cook too fast and clump. So start with like a table spoon of butter into your double boiler let it melt. Then get ready with a whisk. Add the egg yolk and whisk till smooth should be pretty fast like 15 seconds , if it looks like they are cooking to fast remove bowl from hot water and stir away from heat, then add the rest of the butter one piece at a time until all gone. Now stir that for about 2 minutes so its mixed before adding the lemon. If at any time the mixture starts to get lumpy or too thick add a few table spoons of hot water. Its ok if you add too much water eventually it will cook out.

Add the lemon a tablespoon at a time so you get a good taste, of it gets too lemony add another yolk if its too yolky and more butter if its too buttery and one of the other two until you get a good taste. Last add salt ad pepper to taste. People like to use white pepper to keep the color. I feel like white pepper tastes weird so I just use black pepper.

If it turned out too lumpy you can use a hand blender to smooth out, also if you like a more frothy sauce this will do that also.

Honestly buying a loaf of french bread and having a friend over and practicing a couple times is not  a bad idea and so delicious.

Now the sauce can sit, just stir it really good for a couple minutes and then add a tbs or two of really hot water every so often to keep it together and warm. It will continue to thicken as you go. (You can use the water from your double boiler)

Now for the rest. Vegetable Eggs Benedict is easy. I don't put it on English muffins because I like it to be a little different.

Eggs

Poached eggs (again this is a practice thing, good luck)

Veggies You Will Need

Tomatoes
Alfalfa Sprouts
Avocado
Spinach

Bread You Will Need

French Bread
Garlic
Fresh Parsley
Butter

Now here is the tricky part, the vegetables are best cold, but it will make your breakfast cold. So in my experience you need to slice the tomatoes thick, (Like a good thick sandwich slice) and fry them in a super hot pan for just a second or two each side to get them warm. 

Cook the spinach until wilted (But not mush) in garlic butter

Drop eggs into big pot of boiling water. (Wash this pot as soon as possible as poaching eggs can kind of destroy a pot)

While this is happening, put butter garlic and a little fresh parsley and melt together, then brush onto bread slices and toast. Toast just enough to be brown but not super hard, you can also toast them in a pan if you want.

Layer the bread then the avocado, then spinach, then the poached egg, tomato and sprouts. Then pour sauce on top and eat.

If you want to make it gluten free

 instead of bread take mashed potatoes and fry in a pan in little cakes in the garlic butter (Honestly this tastes better than bread anyway)

To make it super amazing use salmon fillet (Also changes it to a dinner if you want)

How to cook the salmon fillet.

Same as everything else, take some parsley, dill, salt, pepper and a little rosemary and spread over the the top of the Salmon fillet. Then get a lemon and slice half of it and place slices all  over fillet. Then use the other half and squeeze juice all over the fillet. The take 1 tbs of butter per serving and place on top of the fillets. The set oven to broil, and broil until fish is tender and flaky. Place fish on bread first then add all of the other stuff.

Goes great with asparagus, and a pilaf rice.