What's Cooking?

[ness]

I've been off work for a couple days, and felt like getting stupid for breakfast. Decided to do Eggs Benedict again, because the last version I did with Knorr's Hollandaise sauce left me wanting the real thing. Hollandaise used to be a pain to make, until somebody figured out how to do it in a blender.

Slowly melt a stick of butter on low heat. Start to poach a couple eggs and brown an English muffin. Three egg yolks, a shot of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and a pinch of cayenne go in the blender. Get them mixed up real good, then go finish up the eggs. Load ham and poached eggs onto English muffin. Head back to the blender, turn it on and slowly drizzle the melted butter in and blend until its creamy. Pour that over your stuff and eat.

Pros:

Tastes great.

Cons:

3 egg yolks plus 2 eggs, ¼ pound of butter, ham and English muffin make for a few more calories than, say, BilletHead's granola.

Two pans and a blender to clean.

But, hey, you only live once.

Enough sauce left over to put on some fish and asparagus tonight.

[Terrierman]

I've been off work for a couple days, and felt like getting stupid for breakfast. Decided to do Eggs Benedict again, because the last version I did with Knorr's Hollandaise sauce left me wanting the real thing. Hollandaise used to be a pain to make, until somebody figured out how to do it in a blender.

Slowly melt a stick of butter on low heat. Start to poach a couple eggs and brown an English muffin. Three egg yolks, a shot of lemon juice, a pinch of salt, and a pinch of cayenne go in the blender. Get them mixed up real good, then go finish up the eggs. Load ham and poached eggs onto English muffin. Head back to the blender, turn it on and slowly drizzle the melted butter in and blend until its creamy. Pour that over your stuff and eat.

Pros:

Tastes great.

Cons:

3 egg yolks plus 2 eggs, ¼ pound of butter, ham and English muffin make for a few more calories than, say, BilletHead's granola.

Two pans and a blender to clean.

But, hey, you only live once.

Enough sauce left over to put on some fish and asparagus tonight.

I'm working on losing some weight before summer. And I hate you.

[David Unnerstall]

Tonight my beautiful wife and I put together an old favorite. Wieners, sauerkraut, and potatoes casserole. We love it, but this is not a picture dish.

Wieners (hot dogs, franks....) are another example of "you get what you pay for." Good wieners from a butcher shop are excellent.

[BilletHead]

Dang Ness,

Are you still off for more days? Are you hard to find and what time is breakfast? I need something to counteract the granola,

BilletHead

[ness]

Dang Ness,

Are you still off for more days? Are you hard to find and what time is breakfast? I need something to counteract the granola,

BilletHead

You know what? You ever find yourself in KC on the weekend, and I'll do that and give you a bottle of my BBQ sauce.

[BilletHead]

oooh and make a trade with a new balsa slider. We never made that waterfowl hunt either. That is still on my mind. It just never got perfect. I want perfect when I take someone.

BilletHead

[rps]

Wieners (hot dogs, franks....) are another example of "you get what you pay for." Good wieners from a butcher shop are excellent.

My wife and I indulge ourselves. We buy our bacon, brats, and wieners from Nueskes. Google them. They make incredible meats.

[ness]

oooh and make a trade with a new balsa slider. We never made that waterfowl hunt either. That is still on my mind. It just never got perfect. I want perfect when I take someone.

BilletHead

Yeah, ness' world got turned upside down in early December. I didn't follow up, or do anything in the way of duck hunting, or really much of anything else the last few months.

[ness]

Wieners (hot dogs, franks....) are another example of "you get what you pay for." Good wieners from a butcher shop are excellent.

I had an errand to run in Overland Park today, and made a pretty big detour to Werner's in Mission, KS to pick up some franks based on your post. A relly cool, old-school meat shop. I'll report back. http://wernerswurst.com

[ness]

Alright, I don't want to make a culinary move without photographing it and forcing it upon OAF.

Here's the fish with asparagus and Hollandaise sauce. Probably should have let the asparagus grow up, but leftover Hollandaise doesn't last forever, right?