I really love eggs benedict. This is usually what I order for breakfast when we eat out. As someone who cooks, I am not easily pleased when it comes to food so I try to only order what I cannot cook at home myself.
This was one of them.
Last night at Trader Joe's, I found ready to use Hollandaise sauce. I didn't feel like attempting to make this from scratch so I heard church bells when I saw this. So, this morning, I came up with my own version of Eggs Benedict.

I used hash browns instead of biscuits. These were from Trader Joe's too (yes, we love Trader Joe's!) I fried two of them then cooked two over easy/fried organic eggs. You can poach the eggs but you can also fry the egg in low heat to get the same effect minus the mess. Put the eggs on top of the hash browns, one on each. Then spoon over the Hollandaise sauce on top of the eggs. I also added crumbled feta cheese (optional) and rosemary (for some color) and slices of french bread, freshly baked. You can use any bread you want or for an even heavier breakfast, you can have it with french toast or pancakes.

Trader Joe's Hollandaise sauce was tangy. I was not used to hollandaise being citrusy but it's a good contrast for the richness of the hash browns and eggs.

I have three girls and a four year old son. So, this is all new to me. This boy loves snakes, reptiles and dinosaurs like any other boy but planets away from how girls are.
The Lair recently opened at the Los Angeles Zoo and my son is in reptile heaven. I love, love how amazed he was and I found a new appreciation for these creatures that used to scare me. I love looking at them at a whole new light. I can't wait to go back.

The family dog.

He had his photo shoot today and he looked oh so fine. He posed like a pro too! I have a love-hate relationship with him. He gives my vocal chords some exercise when he runs out through a half open door then goes near the street and I have to chase him in my pj's at noon (when it's odd to still be in pj's) and then he pretends not to hear me when I call his name. He also constantly scratches my arm as I am watching an important show on tv, as if he has an emergency that I must attend to which often turns out to be a real emergency because he happened to pee on the carpet again because he couldn't hold it any longer and then I chase him around the house but I really never get to catch him and I don't really know what I'll do when I do catch him. He never really sits when asked and he still barks at my mom and sister after 4 years. He humps our leg when we laugh and get really loud. I don't know, that turns him on or something. When I'm trying to sleep, the sound of his feet on the wooden floor is the most annoying thing to hear, as if a woman in heels can't decide where she should go. It drives me crazy!

But you know what, at the end of the day, he is still the baby in this house. The youngest of all my kids and when he looks at me with his puppy eye (because the other one is usually hidden underneath all that fur) it still melts my heart like a popsicle in the summertime. We love our Story.

My son only goes to school every Monday. So, every Monday, my mister and I go out to have breakfast so that's what we did after dropping our son off at school.

Today, this was breakfast. It was special because it was at my favorite restaurant, Bottega Louie in downtown L.A.