OK, Folks, THIS is Steve's invention, but because it's appearing in this Website as well as my "Caregiver Cookbook", this Grumpy Chef is pretty much obligated to come up with a snappy title for this "not-so-fast-food" meal that I've tested SEVEN times Because it's THAT good!). Stephen got up early and walked nearly a mile (plus the return trip) with 4 McDonald's "Egg McMuffins", which are the consummate mega-franchise's signature breakfast sandwich consisting of a toasted English muffin with a slice of warm Canadian bacon topped with a slice of melted American cheese with a griddle-top scrambled egg circle topped with the other half of the toasted muffin.  While it's occasionally obvious that Stephen hasn't benefited from our nation's public schools, he is literate, respectful, and polite...with a cognitive virtual "library of street smarts" that's made for several fascinating evenings of conversation toii accompany my culinary teaching..

Let's proceed to his romantic "Breakfast In Bed" for Steve's "Sweetheart", a "Ms. Sandie H." (They went to the local Fall Carnival last night).  Special "Sous-chef-in-training" Stephen briskly ceased me and the boyz' good-natured teasing, our cooing "Awwwww!" in unison choral with a brief smiling blush.  Then, he quietly explained how fresh-squeezed orange juice, some toasty hash browns, and a few fresh flowers from the edge of this southern suburban street made for an outstanding evening and likely melted this young woman's heart.

This tells me three things:

1. He ordered and purchased the little hash browns round things offered during their breakfast hours.
2. So that he'd refrain from eating the other 2 breakfast sandwiches for Ms. Sandie, he ate them all on his walk back.
3. This young man set a short-range goal, and delivered, and yet had the additional moral conscience and moxie to make it better...replacing his eaten hash browns with fresh ones (very good but not resemmbling any commercial shape...according to Ms. Sandie)  She also added, "The sauce was a shiny bright yellow, savory, smooth, and delicious. The fact it was tasty was a bonus. I was just genuinely touched by his thoughtfulness, but it got me thinkin'...Why doesn't McDonald's offer Hollandaise sauce with its breakfast sandwiches in the first place? Afterwards, I pulled him into bed, and then we  snuggled and made love.**Author's artistic license here".  There is no way am I going to accurately quote her phrase, "then we had a f*#kfest ."
4. There is NO #4.  But before we proceed to the recipe, I suppose presenting a moral to this story would be in order.

MEN, GUYS: Listen up!  For all of you currently in a relationship, married, or dating, women love to be "courted" and appreciate your attempts to make them feel special. The popular TV chef and talk show host Rachel Ray was real nice and said, "You know, gals know that it's easy for guys to call a restaurant and make reservations for dinner. The effort involved in preparing dinner says more and means more".

I agree, and remember, guys appreciate special efforts from the ladies too...unless it transgresses enjoyment of football, "March Madness", the NBA Finals, and the World Series. Unfair stereotype, OK, granted, but it's a frequently accurate assessment of times when men actually neither want sex nor want to even discuss intimacy. That being said, I'm hungry now.

It's finally time for the Eggs McBenedict ala' Stephen recipe.

Ingredients

• 1/2 lb of unsalted butter (2 sticks)
• 6 egg yolks
• 4 teaspoons of lemon juice
• Salt to taste
• White pepper to taste
• A pinch of terragon when completed 

Yields two cups

Instructions

Melt the butter in a saucepan over low heat.  Warm a blender by keeping 1 cup of hot water in it for several minutes. Empty and dry the container.  Then add the egg yolks, lemon juice, and seasonings.  Blend at high speed for a few seconds, then shut the motor off.  The butter should be very hot when adding it tio the egg yolk mixture.

Partially cover the blender container, turn the blender on high, and add the butter in a thin, steady stream.  The sauce will be ruined if you become impatient and add the butter too quickly.  As soon as all of the butter has been incorporated, shut off the blender.  Add the pinch of terragon...no more.  It's a very pungent herb.  Serve this sauce immediately over the Egg McMuffins.  It's great over asparagus or broccoli too.  I tip my hat to sous chef Stephen.  Try it at your home and you will too.