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Eggs Benedictus!

Ingredients

8 large eggs
1 gal water
1 ½ Tb. seasoned rice vinegar
8 slices Applewood smoked bacon, cooked, reserve fat
2 Tb olive oil
8 slices French Bread, sliced on the diagonal
1 1/2 pds. fresh baby spinach
salt and pepper to taste

 Lisa’s Hollandaise

Ingredients

1 shallot , minced
1 pat sweet butter
½ cup white wine
1 lemon, squeezed
½ cup heavy cream
1 stick sweet butter
salt and pepper to taste

Directions

In a sauce pan, sweat the shallots in the pat of butter, about 1 minute. Add the white wine and lemon and reduce by half. Add the cream and reduce by ¼. Whisk in the remaining butter and season to taste. In a cast iron skillet cook the bacon. Reserve the fat and add 2Tb olive oil and lightly brown the French Bread. Add the spinach and a touch of water with salt and pepper and wilt. Boil the water with the vinegar and reduce to a simmer. Make the sauce. Start assembling the dish.

Place 2 pieces of bread on a plate. Place a  piece of bacon  on top of each, then in 8th’s place spinach on top of each bacon slice. Carefully place an egg on top of that and then pour a light amount of sauce on top of that. EAT!!!

Serves 4