Eggs Benny

I don't know if it is because "I never liked it" or "I never had lots of opportunity to eat it", but I have recently fallen in love with egg benedict. When I would go to restaurants for breakfast or brunch, I wouldn't take a second glance at it on the menu. That all changed when my friend Kevi took me to brunch at her parents new restaurant "The Playpen" and I tried the eggs benedict, which was absolutely delicious! (There dinner menu is also superb, everyone should check it out!) Since eating their eggs benedict I thought I'd try making it for myself. I have never tried to make my own hollandaise sauce, only watched my sister make it, and I'd certainly never poached an egg before. Frying one is just so much simpler! I was feeling ambitious this morning so I set out to make it. I used this recipe for the hollandaise sauce. I like mine a little more lemony (probably because that's how my sister makes has made it for me), so I added more lemon than the recipe called for. I started out with the correct amount and then added more to my preferred taste as I cooked it. I had been reading a few recipes for hollandaise sauce before I started making it and some called for cayenne pepper, so I tossed in a bit of that as well. The hollandaise sauce could have been a little thicker probably, but it was delicious tasting so I didn't really mind. My housemates and I probably watched at least four videos on youtube on how to poach an egg before I did it because I really wasn't sure what to do. Some suggest adding vinegar to the water, some say stir the water in a circular motion before adding the egg, others say just add salt. I did all three because I really didn't want to mess up. I was also unsure of how long to cook it for because one thing we watched said "three minutes" and another said "ten minutes". I probably did it somewhere in  between, but was judging it based on how the egg white looked on the outside. I read somewhere to "cook it until there is no raw egg left on the outside", which is pretty obvious, but I kept putting the egg back in the water because I thought I'd see a little part of the egg uncooked. Unfortunately I ended up overcooking the egg just a little bit so the yolk wasn't runny as I had hoped it would have been, but it was still good. I toasted up an english muffin, put some garlic spinach on it (which I had fried up at some point while cooking everything else), put the egg and then drizzled the hollandaise on top. It was kind of a lot of work, maybe just because it was my first time making it, but it was super delicious. One morning when I have some spare time again I'll definitely make it!