Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict

If you told me (and please don’t tell me this, this is for purposes of demonstration only) that I could only have one thing and one thing only for breakfast from now on, I wouldn’t even have to think twice.  Because for me, at the very top of the breakfast happiness list is Eggs Benedict.  I love Eggs Benedict madly.  And because Eggs Benedict is not something you can eat on any sort of regular basis and still fit into your Levi’s, when I do have them I like to make it An Event.

Sometimes this means just going out to our favorite breakfast place and ordering up a plate of Eggs Benedict…but sometimes it means making them at home, and sometimes with a little spin on them.

For example…how about a little smoked salmon?  Now, traditional Eggs Benedict is made with Canadian bacon, and you know how I feel about bacon.  So for me, it’s got to be REALLY good for me to part with the bacon part of Eggs Benedict.

This is REALLY good.

And not only that, this version does away with another part of the traditional eggs benedict…the hollandaise sauce.  The hollandaise sauce is what gets you in trouble with your Levis, so while I’m definitely still eating the bacon-and-hollandaise version now and then, it’s fabulous to have a lighter version in your back pocket that is still oh, so good.  don’tget me wrong…there’s still plenty of decadence left in the lemon chive butter sauce…but as far as I’m concerned, this is Eggs Benedict Health Food.  It comes from my friends at Stonewall Kitchen…I do adore their cookbook.  Almost as much as Eggs Benedict, baby.

So the next time you are in an Eggs Benedict kind of mood, give this one a try.  (For me, that will be sometime in the next five minutes or so.)