unapologetic fitness, foodie: Bacon, Kale, Sweet Potato Eggs Benedict!

The other day I ranted about my love affair with the radio.

Today I am going to tell you about two even bigger love affairs I have.

Brunch and Eggs. Benedict.

First let me explain my love for Brunch. I don't think there has ever been a more beautiful combination of two words. Breakfast and Lunch. They go together like a beautiful, majestic ball of happiness.

And now for my love affair with Eggs Benedict.

I have been in love with Eggs Benedict for about a year now (happy anniversary eggs benny). I'm telling you, it's a problem. I don't know what I love more - the hollandaise sauce or the poached egg. I think it may be the poached egg. I could put it on anything - I love the softness of the egg and the gooeyness of the yoke. I could put a poached egg on anything - sandwich, pizza, ANYTHING! Hmm.. poached egg on a pizza. I'll have to try that.

Stay tuned.

Well, eggs benedict is not Paleo... sign.

So I decided to make it Paleo and eliminating the bread and using sweet potatoes instead!

Genius idea! Good thinking Morgan.

For my eggs benedict I combined Sweet Potatoes, Sautéed Kale, Bacon and a Poached Egg topped with Homemade Hollandaise sauce.

Recipe:

1 small Sweet Potato

1 large handful Kale

3 slices bacon

1 egg

2 TBSP Extra Virgin Olive Oil

For Hollandaise Sauce:

2 egg yolks

1 TBSP lemon

1/4 cup butter (I used clarified butter "ghee")

Pinch of red pepper

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to HI broil.

2. While oven is preheating, slice sweet potato. The thinner the slices the quicker they will cook! Lightly grease sweet potato slices with 1 TBSP olive oil.

3. Cook Sweet Potatoes on HI until tender. I flipped mine halfway through.

4. Cook bacon. (I used Trader Joe's fully cooked bacon so all I had to do was pop it in the microwave for about 1 minute and it was cooked!)

5. Place handful of Kale in saucepan on medium heat. Combine with 1 TBSP olive oil and sauté until tender. I added a pinch of garlic powder and onion powder.

6. Poach your egg!

The easiest way to poach an egg:

- In small saucepan place the rim of a mason jar lid in the center.

- Fill saucepan with water to the tip of the lid.

- On high heat bring water in saucepan to a boil.

- Crack egg in center of lid.

- Remove heat, cover, let cook for 2 minutes.

*If egg white is not cooked thoroughly add heat and cover until cooked.

7. Stack the goodness! I put the Sweet Potatoes, the sautéed Kale, bacon, poached egg and then the hollandaise sauce.

Look how gorgeous this is. Seriously cannot get over how pretty it is! Side note: I just recently started using a super nice Canon camera that my uncle let me borrow for my blog. I am loving it and the pictures are amazing!

After brunch Cabela and I ventured outside because it is such a beautiful day!

On our back patio we have a doggie door! Cabela has never been through a doggie door before - it took about 10 minutes of coaxing him to walk through it but once he got it, it was hilarious!