- Bloody Marys with fresh tomato and celery with pepper vodka
- Mimosas with fresh squeezed orange juice
- Damned good coffee
- A dish that Monica dubbed "Eggs Cole" after our little guy
Eggs Cole is a mish-mash of different Eggs Benedict versions. If you had Eggs Florentine but replaced the spinach with arugula and Eggs Blackstone but you replaced the "streaky bacon" with pancetta and 86'd the tomato you would have Eggs Cole. We used San Luis Obispo sourdough wheat for the English muffins, so the lineage to the Eggs Benedict is pretty tenuous, but they you go. It's not as far as our invention, Eggs Merci, is from its progenitor. So, to recap:
Eggs Cole
- San Luis Obispo sourdough wheat
- Pancetta
- Wilted Arugula
- Poached (or over-easy) Eggs
- Hollandaise sauce [we will get Monica's recipe since it is better than ours and seems easier]
Jim and Peta
PS: We've had to look up the variations so much that we're just going to list them below
- Eggs Florentine substitutes spinach for the ham.[8][9][10] Older versions of eggs Florentine add spinach to poached or shirred eggs Mornay – eggs covered in Mornay sauce.[11]
- Eggs Royal includes chicken livers
- Eggs Hemingway (also known as Eggs Royale, Eggs Pacifica, Eggs Montreal) substitutes salmon for the ham. This is a common variation found in Australia and New Zealand.
- Eggs Neptune or Crab Benedict or Eggs Chesapeake substitutes crabmeat for the ham.
- Eggs Hussarde substitutes Holland rusks for the English muffin and adds Marchand de Vin sauce.[13][14][15]
- Eggs Sardou substitutes artichoke bottoms and crossed anchovy fillets for the English muffin and ham, then tops the hollandaise sauce with chopped ham and a truffle slice. The dish was created at Antoine's Restaurant in New Orleans in honor of the French playwright Victorien Sardou.[16][17][18] A more widespread version of the dish starts with a base of creamed spinach, substitutes artichoke bottoms for the English muffin, and drops the ham.[13][19][20]
- Country Benedict, sometimes known as Eggs Beauregard, replaces the English muffin, ham and hollandaise sauce with a biscuit, sausage patties, and country gravy. The poached eggs are replaced with eggs fried to choice.[24][25][26]
- Irish Benedict replaces the ham with corned beef hash[27] or Irish bacon.[28][29][30]
