00:01oh god this is great this is great this is terrible hi guys I'm chef Mimi I'm
00:10here today in the Upper East Side to cook eggs benedict for you all but before we
00:14get started subscribe below typically I cook at Vinatoria which is in Harlem
00:18today I need to know whose kitchen is this hi I'm Shoshana this is my kitchen
00:25only eggs have ever been cooked in it the back burner is temperamental so I've
00:32never used it and I've attempted to use it looks like it's going to explode and be
00:37safe my first reaction about opening the door was his apartment is dining but in
00:44the same sense I also knew in the back of my mind that it's alright because
00:46everything's workable all right well you got water and alcohol good it's small but
00:51I knew we would be okay first I'm gonna make the biscuit dough I see first thing
00:54here that we have a mason jar which oh so perfectly has measurements on it a
00:59fourth of a cup of every flour so I like to consider myself what I call a
01:03backyard baker I like to do a little bit of this and a little bit of that having
01:06a mason jar to measure was not very precise but it also just gave me kind of
01:10in the general direction of like cool this is about what I need baking powder
01:14it's one teaspoon so I'm just gonna know in the palm of my hand baking soda the
01:19reason we have both it's gonna help biscuits really kind of rise up salts for
01:23half a teaspoon we add our sugar now butter we're gonna use about two and a
01:28half tablespoons you always want to make sure that your butter is very cold you
01:31don't want it to melt your hands are perfectly fine to be your mixer I had an
01:35ex-girlfriend who loved breakfast so because of that I've made biscuits
01:39probably over the course of three years like 50 to 70 times we're well on our way
01:45to making really great biscuits this morning when I grip it it's already
01:48starting to come together and I haven't even added any wet ingredients heavy cream
01:52and I've got one egg whisk this together mix a little in at a time now I'm just
01:57kneading the dough together it's already at a consistency that I'm not gonna use
02:02any more of the liquid for fear that it's gonna make my batter too runny
02:04you're gonna set it in the fridge and let it rest so you're probably
02:08wondering why I'm sitting on the floor well this is the best possible
02:12workspace that we have I can't say that I've ever worked on the floor in my 15
02:16year career but there is a first time for everything it well her floor is pretty
02:19clean and I'm gonna casually dry our floor off here got some paper bags that I've
02:24just cut up quickly we're all taped down I found this bottle of tequila and since
02:29we don't have a rolling pin I'm gonna wrap it in some plastic just to keep it
02:32clean I don't like my tequila dirty if you're feeling nervous you should
02:35probably just go ahead and take a shot of this tequila before you even start I
02:39don't have to roll too much I'm just kind of looking for a half an inch we're
02:42gonna need something to make the shape so we can actually have the biscuits
02:45itself so we've got a mug we have this cup I've got a little mason jar here and
02:51this is a perfect size because if you think about it our egg will fit perfectly
02:54on top with your extra dough you can ball it up and do the same thing again kind
02:59of an ugly biscuit and there we go it's actually a great work surface down here so
03:03next I'm gonna take the biscuits I'm gonna place them on our toaster oven can't
03:07say I've ever used one of these before but okay yep don't know what I'm doing no
03:14yes so I've got it to like 375 it feels like it's ready now so I'm gonna go
03:19ahead and throw them in and we're gonna check them in like 10 minutes see what
03:23we get my biscuits are all done I've got two sponges here which is gonna be
03:29perfect actually to take them out to dry sponges not wet careful when you do
03:34this I'm looking at the biscuits and I'm really happy with them they smell
03:37delicious they're perfect next we're gonna make the hollandaise sauce I'm gonna
03:42need egg yolks and we're gonna need butter and then the other things I'm
03:46gonna look for are an acid lemon juice is perfect and also some peppercorn a
03:50little bit of butter I'm gonna microwave it it probably 30 seconds all right and
03:57that was about 8 tablespoons of butter so now I'm gonna take my eggs and I'm
04:01gonna separate them I think for me I like using my hands best one more in here
04:07I've got my four egg yolks my lemon juice does anyone have a whisk here no a
04:13trusty fork here that we're gonna use you know when it's ready to add the fat to
04:18the egg yolks when I do this now I can tell I can't hold in figure eight it just
04:23means I have ways to go with whisking while I start to do this I'm gonna go
04:26ahead and put some water in my pot and the point of this water is to not boil it
04:29you want to simmer it while we do that I'm gonna just keep whisking away which might
04:34take a little longer since we don't have a whisk this is definitely an arm workout
04:44I am breaking a little bit of a sweat right now so since this is taking a long
04:47time and my wrist is getting tired I'm gonna grab another fork I can see my a
04:56which is what I'm looking for so that's how you know you're ready and then my pot
05:00of water over here is up now to a boil so I'm gonna go ahead and just turn it
05:03down just a little bit and the objective really of putting this over you don't
05:08want to fry the egg yolks it's about lightly cooking them thoroughly all the
05:12way through so I can also see now it's a really nice thick runny sauce we're
05:16gonna go ahead then slowly start to add our fat to it a little bit of my butter
05:20and whisk really heavily because this is the part where you really want these two
05:24ingredients to come together and if you do a lot and then don't whisk quickly well
05:28they're not gonna come together a little bit of fresh cracked pepper in
05:31there and then also salt see what we got
05:40tastes really good as soon as the Hollandaise started to thicken up and I
05:43could see my figure eight it was like the moment of relief in my mind like all
05:46right we're now on cruise control we're gonna go ahead and start cooking our
05:49Canadian bacon mmm smells like breakfast in here and if you can hear that sound
05:54that's the sound of awesome and I'm gonna give them one more flip and then we're
05:58gonna go ahead and be done just set those aside and we're gonna start doing
06:01our poached eggs also I'm gonna add a little bit of vinegar to the water which
06:05helps the eggs come together maybe like three tablespoons to trick like every
06:09restaurant I've ever worked in they always use I'm gonna probably poach two
06:12eggs at a time just to speed things up a little bit don't touch them until
06:17they've been in there and you can start to really see the egg white form
06:20otherwise the yolk will break see how they have a little bit of resistance so I
06:23know they're cooked and runny still I'm actually gonna take what I did call my
06:27ugly biscuits that I think are pretty I'm gonna use my ugly biscuits for this
06:31and then I'm gonna gently take my poached eggs again so we're just gonna do a
06:36little bit of freshly cracked pepper on top and that's it I can't believe I
06:40pulled that off the most frustrating part about this process was whisking the
06:44Hollandaise sauce with no whisk little more muscle than I thought but I feel good
06:50about that that's a really good eggs benedict if I do say so myself being a
06:54backyard baker in the end it helped me out I thank you so much for watching
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