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Easy Hollandaise sauce

Hollandaise sauce
One of our favorite family breakfasts is Eggs Benedict. We top English muffins, ham and poached eggs with this yummy sauce.

(Side note: When we make this, we use about 40 eggs and a quadruple batch of this sauce – that’s 8 sticks of butter…..)

1 egg
1 Tbsp lemon juice
not-quite 1 Tbsp spicy brown mustard
2 sticks butter, melted and hot

Break one egg into blender; turn on high. Add lemon juice, then mustard. Slowly pour in hot melted butter and voila! Homemade Hollandaise sauce! Delicious on asparagus, with artichokes, on eggs Benedict….in fact, there is not anything we’ve tried it on that we do not like…..

If you have left-overs, just refrigerate them, then warm up by placing container in a hot water bath and stir occasionally. If you microwave it, it will separate.

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Easy Fiesta Dip

Fiesta Dip
Easy to make. It’s good chilled – but we rarely wait that long.

8 oz cream cheese, softened
2 C sour cream
1 can corn, drained
1 can black beans, drained and rinsed
1 1/2 C salsa (we like homemade the best!)
1 1/2 Tbl taco seasoning
2 C shredded cheddar cheese
Cilantro, 1 bunch chopped (OK, you can make this optional)
Tortilla chips

In a large bowl, mix all ingredients. Cover; chill before serving.
Serves 10-12.

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Homemade caramels

Carrying on a tradition from my family growing up, we make these to-die for caramels every year. It’s worth the time to make these – I promise!

We make a double batch, in a ginormous pot, then pour it into a well-buttered 10×15 glass pan. (And btw, the kids will pry out this first batch of caramels and eat them without even wrapping them. Sorry, neighbors.)

Yumminess!

Yumminess!

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This type of “cake” used to be called “coffee cake” but since we don’t drink coffee in this house, we started calling them “breakfast cake” years ago. This version is our very favorite. I have substituted the apples with strawberries, a strawberry/banana mix, peaches, and more. The texture is slightly different when you use more […]

This type of “cake” used to be called “coffee cake” but since we don’t drink coffee in this house, we started calling them “breakfast cake” years ago. This version is our very favorite. I have substituted the apples with strawberries, a strawberry/banana mix, peaches, and more. The texture is slightly different when you use more […]