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There's More Than One Way to Cook an Egg

  There’s More Than One Way to Cook an Egg So why can’t I find a place where they can poach an egg?! Eggs Benedict with a glass of champagne on Sunday morning makes me very happy. We have a favorite restaurant for brunch, The Country Gourmet in Sunnyvale. It’s geographically convenient, it’s busy but calm, parking is a snap and the patio dining is sunny and pleasant. The food is generally very good and the staff is lovely. The staff on weekend mornings is mainly comprised of teenagers. When they are taking your order and you ask if your eggs can be cooked in a certain way, you may as well be asking what opera is playing in Santa Fe. I’ve mentioned that CG checks all the boxes and their eggs Benedict checks a lot of the boxes too. No hard English muffin with edges engineered to cut your mouth to shreds but a rich toasted biscuit The Canadian bacon is sauteed, and the Hollandaise sauce is smooth and lemony – almost as good as the sauce I make. But………..the eggs!!! A p...

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