Super Simple Blender Hollandaise Sauce for Perfect Eggs Benedict Recipe
Ingredients
- All you have to do is bring three egg yolks to room temperature. I
- place them in the blender while I prepare the fixin's for Eggs
- Benedict: English Muffins (I toast them very lightly), Canadian Bacon
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