Steak Benedict - baguette

Method

• 1.
• Place precooked baguette into the oven for 10-12 minutes at 350.
• 2.
• While this is cooking, season steak with salt and pepper, and begin cooking it in 4 tablespoons of butter on medium heat.
• While you are cooking it, tilt your pan to the side and drizzle butter over the steak.
• You should cook it for about 5-6 minutes per side to get it to a medium result.
• 3.
• Poach 2 eggs and lightly salt and pepper them.
• Make the yokes slightly runny.
• 4.
• In a small pot, melt the other stick of butter.
• 5.
• Simultaneously, place 3 egg yokes into the blender.
• Add salt, pepper, and squeeze the lemon juice into the blender.
• Remove any stray seeds.
• 6.
• Begin to blend the mixture.
• While you are blending, add the melted butter a small stream at a time.
• Stop every few seconds to simply blend until your hollandaise sauce thickens.
• 7.
• When you finish, cut a large piece of baguette off of the loaf.
• Hollow it out, but save the inside part of the bread.
• 8.
• Take the baguette shell, and place it on a plate.
• 9.
• Take the steak, and cut it into small strips.
• Place several of those strips inside the baguette shell.
• Place the poached egg on top of the baguette shell.
• The spoon hollandaise mixture on top of the egg.
• 10.
• Place the remainder of the bread on the side of your tower.
• Put a dollop of hollandaise on it as well, and serve.