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Posted: 4/8/2007 8:52:54 PM | This has been a traditional christmas/winter solstice breakfast in our family now for about 30 years. My sis added mimosa. Thats okay but I think I will change the drink to a "gertz" wine. I can't remember how to spell it. Its the one that has a grapefruit taste to it and comes from Germany.
Also, one of my girlfriends introduced me to the "Maryland" version with the crab cakes this year. I USED to use canadian bacon.  its crab cakes from now on!!! | |
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Posted: 6/3/2007 8:18:48 AM | I've never poached an egg before. I'm not going to hurt myself or burn my house down trying this recipe, am I? Oh wait, its me...I could hurt myself peeling a banana! | |
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Posted: 6/4/2007 11:11:49 PM | | Alright, I tried the recipe tonight and my daughter and I loved it. Thanks for the contribution! | |
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Posted: 6/6/2007 4:05:37 PM | I'm thinking this is...
...eggcellent.
...eggsquisit.
and nearly...
...eggistential.
Eggzactly!
I'm on my way.
(come on...someone HAD to do it!!!)
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| Eggs Benedict
Posted: 6/6/2007 6:47:48 PM |
musts (for me):
yolk still runny poached egg
melted brie or other cheese instead of sauce
asparagus or spinach
and yeah, the Maryland style with crab cake is REALLY good
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Posted: 6/7/2007 5:54:57 AM | Too rich for my blood, I'd take the cheese over the sauce anyday. Hollandaise sauce is basically just thickened butter for the most part. The crabcakes one sounds like a heart attack on a plate but I'd try it maybe for dinner on a special occasion. Rich food in the AM seems to make me sluggish all day. Here's a good, fairly authentic(I've never used water in it before) recipe and video for making it:
http://video.about.com/gourmetfood/Hollandaise-Sauce.htm
Now what I do like is the Bernaise Sauce that is made with hollandaise as the base. Bernaise Sauce is wonderful on bland pork. Main thing to remember is to constantly keep stirring. If you have trouble making it on regular heat switch to a doubler boiler setup, plus it will keep longer on that setup.
What most restaurants serve these days as Eggs Benedict would not even come close to the real hollandaise sauce, btw. Nobody wants to make microbatches of the sauce from scratch every time some one orders it so they use something that has a longer life once made.
Sometimes vinegar is used instead of lemon, wine vinegars are great or even half vinegar/half lemon. Lime would be good in the Bernaise Sauce, give it a new twist. There is a lot of room for experimentation once the basic sauce is made so have fun with it!
Bernaise has that tang of mustard. Bernaise Sauce = Obese Mustard  | |
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Posted: 6/7/2007 7:29:21 PM | | Eggs benedict are a staple for my sunday morning brunch (by the way, best hollandaise is knorrs if you don't make it from scratch plus can be made in the mic in 4 mins...thats way cool!) but i also make homemade rosemary, garlic and parmesan homefries that are baked.... easily done......just cube 5 potatoes and par boil. Add chopped sweet onion, fresh rosemary crushed, add garlic powder, sea salt to your liking and fresh grated parmesean and coat with olive oil....heat oven to 425 and bake for 40-45 mins until golden brown. Always get rave reviews for these potatoes or my twice baked potatoes........Enjoy :) | |
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Posted: 6/8/2007 12:22:22 PM | Random...
I've done vinegar with hollandaise, but it's best to use champagne vinegar. Pricey? very... but sooo worth it for the flavor and the "sexy results" from your guest.
BTW, Squirrly... I was once "justforumsplease" and yes... I do forgive you. :D
EMBTW... I think that thread i did with my Eggs Sardou recipe is still floating around here somewhere. It's good... try it. | |
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Posted: 6/8/2007 8:13:24 PM | | Add a smidge of grainy dijon mustard to the Hollandaise. OMG! | |
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Posted: 6/9/2007 3:55:48 AM | | I've been looking for an excuse to buy some champagne vinegar as its one of those ingredients on my wish list to try. so it there a particular brand you favor? | |
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Posted: 6/9/2007 6:22:55 AM | Ok...you all stop it now!
Someone send me some over right now please...I'm starving and experiencing a tremendous craving for Eggs Benny after reading part of this thread!
*drooling profusely*...slurp, slurp...oops...sorry.
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Posted: 6/9/2007 7:21:27 AM | Hey Random...
Most brands taste pretty much the same( which means good!), but I usually use Clovis brand. They make it from champagnes produced near Reims, so the quality is good, but it will not harm you wallet. It runs from about $8-$10 US at most gourmet stores, or you can always order it form online.
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Posted: 9/14/2007 1:05:12 PM | | This sounds great, Thank you op. | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 11:42:17 AM | There is a local restaurant that does the traditional benedict except substituting a crab cake for the muffin.
Great brunch with a bloody mary. | |
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Posted: 9/27/2007 3:48:21 PM | No one has mentioned the Irish Benny ?? A.K.A. "The Crow's Nest" ???
Corned beef hash(preferably homemade) on and English Muffin and topped with a poached egg and Hollandaise...... YUM | |
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Joined: 6/14/2007
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| Eggs Benedict
Posted: 9/29/2007 5:35:52 AM | Some great variations on a great breakfast - but why hasn't anyone asked that age old eggs benedict question? Ok . I will.
Q: Name two things a guy can't get at home.
A: Eggs Benedict and a BJ | |
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Posted: 9/29/2007 7:40:52 AM | | Sounds like a personal issue...... as long as she doesn't try to poach your um... BACK ON SUBJECT...... Man Eggs Benedict sounds great right now | |
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Posted: 8/31/2009 7:50:12 PM | I had to bring this thread back up 
I come home from California and all I want is trout, especially the kind I always cook for breakfast while camping.
Now, all I can think about is Eggs Benedict
I NEVER like breakfast unless it is the weekend when I am not working and since I always work weekends the last 2 years, I never want breakfast.
That's it!!!! I am on vacation!!!!!!!!! WOW glad I figured that out. LOLOL
Now, I love Eggs Benedict about 100 different ways. What is yours???
Toasted English muffin buttered
perfectly poached egg, whites done, yolk runny
a blend of chorizo, shrimp, green onion, tomato over the egg
a little asiago cheese grated over, just a touch
chopped avocado, finishing salt and fresh ground green pepper
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Posted: 9/1/2009 12:09:52 AM | I still like the simple variation ... Eggs Benjamin:
bagel, toasted (your choice of bagel flavour)
cream cheese (flavoured is fine)
smoked salmon
poached egg (I too like them with runny yolks ... otherwise they're hard boiled eggs with a funny shape)
Hollandaise
If you must embellish (not that that's a bad thing), some white asparagus goes nicely with this. | |
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Posted: 9/1/2009 1:29:39 AM | LOL that was going to be my second post.
While I love that, I prefer to stay with the English muffin and not the bagel for Eggs benedict and no cream cheese. So for me it would be a toasted English muffin buttered, yummy slices of cold smoked salmon, poached egg, Hollandaise. If I were going to add the asparagus, it would be the large purple. OMG this is sounding too good!
Also, I forgot my Hollandaise on the above post, just over everything, with the avocado on top.
Another excellent version is the toasted muffin with 4 pieces, cut in half, of extra thick, crisp bacon, a thick ripe room temperature tomato slice, poached egg and Hollandaise MMMMMM
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Posted: 9/1/2009 10:59:15 AM | I just have to add to this again. I hope others do, because I so love these things and I can do 100 versions, I am guessing. I would love to see others take on it.
I think the crab version Eggs Maryland, is mentioned above, but I do two crab versions, well I have others with crab in them too, and mine are different fromt he above posters.
Toasted English Muffin
Saffron Hollandaise instead of butter
Fresh microgreens
Blue Crab Cake, made with very little bread at all
Poached Egg, yolk runny
Saffron Hollandaise
Artichoke Bottom, chopped and over top
Sprinkle of Smoked Paprika
MMMM I want this NOW
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Posted: 9/1/2009 4:28:52 PM | I suppose I'm NOT the "norm", but I enjoy Eggs Benedict WITHOUT the hollandaise sauce.
Go figure....LOL
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Posted: 9/2/2009 11:22:32 AM | Hi Raz
Hi Beth 
Beth...BLASPHEMY!  Just kidding
Raz, how do you know? Are they on here to see? Do you know this person personally? Has he cooked for you? Dang man, inquiring minds want to DROOL! LOL And in case you couldn't tell, those questions are not sarcastic, they are an earnest attempt in finding out if there is a possibility to see his many recipes. If it is ANY twist on Eggs Benedict, it has to be drool worthy.
Did you see my birthday Eggs Benedict? Oh my, it was so GOOD
English Muffin, toasted
Artichoke Bottom, large, I steamed with evoo, salt, garlic, lemon
Salmon, raw, piled high in thin slices, making a nest in the center
MicroGreens, delicate, sweet, lightly bitter
Potatoes, small diced with bacon and green onion, low cooked in a skillet with a lid so that they steam browned, then a few spooned over the greens
Poached Egg, runny yolk, shiny lightly done whites, snuggled down into the potatoes and greens
Hollandaise Sauce, liberally running over everything making small pools on the plate
Green peppercorns, fresh ground over the top
I thought I had died and gone to heaven. LOL this reminds me of that thread, can't remember what it was, where all of the posters were making some reference as to died, to die for, etc... and Naughti came in and posted all of the quotes and made us all crack up because she said the thread scared her because it was all about dying. LOLOL That was so funny.
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Posted: 9/8/2009 7:52:42 PM | Here is one a friend on PoF sent me. I have to give him all the credit and I cannot wait to try it.
Eggs Derelict
Toasted English Muffin
Smoked Turkey
Poached Egg
Hollandaise with Sherry in it
I can see me closing my eyes, going mmmm Mmmmm MMMMMM'and shooting up in the sky, then floatinmg down like that puppy on that old time cartoon when he got a snack. It sounds great!
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