Brunch Egg Dish Florentine

"easy and so good for you - great for kids (maybe without the mushrooms)"
 
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Ready In:
35mins
Ingredients:
10
Serves:
8
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ingredients

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directions

  • Mix spinach with onion, nutmeg, salt and pepper (and add 1 cup of white sauce, if desired).
  • Saute chopped mushrooms in butter in a skillet until golden. Mix with the spinach mixture.
  • Partly fill 8 individual ovenproof 6-10 ounce ramekins with the mixture.
  • Make a well in the center of each ramekin. In each well, carefully place a raw egg.
  • Bake in an oven preheated to 350 until the yolk is set and egg white is done. DO NOT OVERCOOK.
  • Over all 8 ramekins, pour a heated sauce made by blending the remaining white sauce with 1 cup of Hollandaise, 2 TBS per ramekin.
  • Put under the broiler for 2 minutes.
  • NOTE: This also may be baked in an 8 x 8 x 2 inch baking dish instead of the individual ramekins.
  • WHITE SAUCE:

  • Heat 2 cups milk in a saucepan but DO NOT BOIL. Melt 4 TBS of butter in a medium-sized skillet. Remove from the heat and stir in 4 TBS flour to make a smooth paste. Add this paste, gradually, to the hot milk, stirring constantly until the sauce is smooth and thickened. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Makes 1 cup.
  • HOLLANDAISE SAUCE:

  • Beat 4 egg yolks and juice of 2 lemons in a metal bowl over a pan with hot water on medium heat.
  • Add 8 ounces of salted butter [Kerry Irish Gold], 2 ounces at a time. Beat hard with a whisk or fork. As you add the fifth and sixth pieces of butter, hold the pan up. away from the hot water, so that the sauce will not get too hot and separate. Stir well. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Put back over the hot water, covered, OFF THE HEAT, until ready to serve. Reheat over medium heat for 10 minutes before serving. Males about 1-1/4 cups.
  • This will keep covered in the refrigerator for 3-4 days - and, tightly covered, in the freezer for several months.

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  1. This was really good, however if I was going to make it for company, I'd have the spinach mixture and sauces done a day or two beforehand so all you have to do is combine them and bake. Making this turned out to be quite time consuming for me. With that said, the tastes are great and the presentation can be amazing. Thanks for posting!
     
  2. DH and I really enjoyed this easy and tasty recipe. I did make a few very minor changes first cut it in half as there's only 2 of us, then heated the milk in the microwave for ease of prep and finally cooked 2 slices of bacon crisp, crumbled them and placed on the bottom before adding the rest. Sprinkled cayenne pepper on top for a bit of bite and used your white sauce for the topping. Served in ramakins with toasted homemade sourdough bread and hot coffee. Lovely start to the day and not bad in calories either.
     
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56, an Army brat who has lived in 20 different locations [born in germany, went to kindergarten in japan] including new york city, palo alto CA, maine, georgia, chicago, after growing up in small-town kansas... have some fabulous recipes from well-traveled army people... recently started adding just a splash of bourbon or brandy to real maple syrup - and it really gives french toast or pancakes a special, more sophisticated flavor... a friend jokes that bourbon is my new "secret ingredient" that i'll be adding to everything - it's not true but i'm telling you - you should try it! it's really very good [for adults, anyway] sugarpea's apple pancake recipe is a deadringer for Walker Brothers Pancake House in north shore Chicago - i've searchd for this for 34 years - and it's easy as well as To Die For!!! the Dutch Baby pancake is a huge seller there too - with the same gooey comfort-food but elegant batter... also if you search for lettuce wrap - the 2 recipes for PF Chang's come up... this is also SO GOOD, truly a memorable entree... for cookbooks: With a Jug of Wine, More Recipes With a Jug of Wine were written by the San Francisco Chronicle food writer decades ago - and most everything in them is superb - and i learned a lot as a new cook, young wife, from reading through them in the late 1970s... i got a [very French] sense of food as a way of life
 
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