Eggs Benedict

Eggs Benedict & Hollandaise:

I apologize for not posting in a while, its been a crazy last few weeks with school, and traveling. Now I am back home, and have posts coming your way. Yesterday I was really craving some eggs, and noticed that we had everything in the house for some eggs Benedict, and this recipe is really quick, and fairly easy. 

What you'll need: 

• 8 pieces of bacon (or canadian bacon)
• 4 eggs
• 2 English Muffins
• Buter

Hollandaise Ingredients:

• 10 Tbsp butter
• 3 egg yolks
• 1 Tbsp lemon juice
• Dash of cayenne pepper

First I started with just cutting my bacon in half, and frying it up to the crispness that I like. Now while the bacon is cooking bring a large saucepan 2/3 of the way full with water to a simmer.  Then Poach the eggs, here is a easy method for poaching eggs. Crack an egg into a small bowl, and then drop each egg one at a time (remembering the first one you dropped) into the simmering water. Then turn off the heat and cover for about 4-7 minuets depending on the size of egg. 

Now put you English muffins in the toaster while you make the hollandaise. Melt your butter in a small sauce pan or in the microwave just make sure that it is pretty hot. Drop your 3 egg yolks into the blender with the lemon juice and blend for 30-45 second until yellow and light in color. Then turn the blender down to low and slowly drizzle in the hot butter. Add cayenne, then taste add more lemon juice or cayenne if needed.

Take the english muffins out of the toaster, butter each half, place 4 half pieces of bacon on the bottom then the egg, then the hollandaise. Garnish with parsley, and serve! 

Hope you enjoyed this post, Much more to come!

-Jack

Ina Garten's Raspberry Crumble Bars

Raspberry Crumble Bars

Recently for Christmas I received Ina Garten's cook books(Thanks Grandma). I really look up to Ina as a culinary figure, I think that she is very experienced, and cooks great food.

I was looking through her cook book a few weeks ago, and decided to make this for my grandparents when they were in town. These bars really appealed to me, and they were absolutely delicious, everyone needs to give them a try.

Here is what you need:

• 1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
• 3/4 Cup sugar
• 1 Teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/3 cups all-purpose flour
• 10 - 12 ounces raspberry jelly
• 2/3 cup plain granola *without dried fruit*
• 1/4cup sliced almonds

Preheat the oven to 350 degrees, then cream together your sugar, butter, and vanilla. After that sift together your flour and salt. Then combine the dry ingredients with the sugar butter mixture.  Once that is fully combined into a dough ball take 3/4 of the dough and line a 9x9 pan. *You do not need to put any butter you spray in the pan before the dough.* I also did not have a 9x9 but I used a round pie pan and that worked fine.

After you have the dough lined in the bottom of the 9x9 pan, take the raspberry jelly and spread a layer all over your dough leaving 1/2 boarder to let the dough spread out while its cooking. After this take the rest of your dough and add the granola, and make a crumb topping.

After this sprinkle the topping on the raspberry jelly, and then sprinkle the almonds on top of that. Put in the oven for 40-45 min. The top should be browned, and the jelly should be bubbly.

Hope you enjoyed this post!
-Jack