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If you are going to indulge in Eggs Benny do it right, I say. I have sampled this dish in many restaurants, both diner quality as well as a bit fancier and have never managed to find an Eggs Benedict with real hollandaise sauce. It can still be tasty with the fake stuff but it will always pale in comparison to the real deal. Luckily, hollandaise sauce is easy to make and the rest of the ingredients are a breeze as well. Go ahead and give it a go. You will surely find that you can whip it up more quickly than it would have taken you to drive over to Perkins and be served a half hearted imitation, or even to go through McDonald’s drive through for their “sort of” Eggs Benny concept known as the “Egg McMuffin” (Yes it’s true. The Egg McMuffin was inspired by Eggs Benedict, only cheese was substituted for hollandaise simply because hollandaise would be too messy.) So commit to the calories and the joy of it all and do it right! This is a really great breakfast to master if you want to impress people too. Who can resist fresh homemade Eggs Benedict?

This recipe will yield one serving of Eggs Benedict, composed of one whole English muffin and two eggs. Some people prefer only a half muffin and one egg so this may be two servings if that is the case.

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If you love English muffins but have never had a real freshly “baked” one and instead have always relied on those awkwardly packaged, stiff, store bought kinds then you owe it to yourself to changed that habit. They are easy to make and taste miles better than anything made in a factory. Being a yeast leavened bread it does take time to make, but most of that time is spent ignoring the dough and doing what ever else you feel like doing while the yeast does its thing.

If you are new to bread baking, this is a fantastic place to start! The recipe is incredibly forgiving. If you are already familiar with bread baking this can be a fun deviation from your regular bread baking routine. While making the dough will be familiar to you, this bread is actually fried instead of baked and, well, perhaps this is just a sign that I am a cooking geek, but little things like that are just SO awesome to me!

This recipe yields anywhere from 6 to 12 English muffins, depending on the size muffins you like. When I make this recipe I like to make 8. To me this provides the perfect sized muffins that are just slightly larger than the typical commercial type.

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Brown rice is one of the most perfect foods on this planet. I eat it just about every day. Unfortunately, though, it is under appreciated by a lot of people. White rice has its uses and I do appreciate it for what it is (a yummy and basically nutritionally void junk food… like cake), but if you are going to eat rice in your meal, why not make it brown rice at least MOST of the time? Obviously its healthier by far, but  not only that; it actually fills you up and has texture and flavour. A meal can go from being junk food to incredibly healthy simply by substituting brown rice for white rice. One complaint that I understand people have is that brown rice doesn’t keep as well as white rice. It is true that any whole grain will be more difficult to store than its over processed counterpart. This, however, I do not see as much of an argument for neglecting whole grains. Simply buying less at a time and storing it in an airtight container in the refrigerator will guarantee that you always have fresh rice. Another complaint is that brown rice is more difficult to prepare. Perhaps this is true, but brown rice is not all that difficult to prepare at all. Its just different than white rice. You cannot treat brown rice like minute rice and expect it to turn out well. You need to treat brown rice like brown rice and you will find it to be an ever so easy way to pack a huge punch of yummy healthiness into your rice dishes.

This is not really a recipe but more of a “how to”. I’m simply showing you the technique of how to cook brown rice, but I’ll treat this article like a recipe. Just remember that you can use this method to cook any amount of rice. The measurements that I am using in this post are just examples.