Mom's Real Food Recipe Carnival

In this month's Find Your Balance newsletter, Michelle suggests to her readers to pay tribute to moms and grandmas and post one of their real food recipes here. Well, although this recipe is no where near healthy, it is a tribute to my mother, who passed away almost 2 years ago, and it comes along with a kind of funny story.

The first Thanksgiving after my mother passed away posed a question among my sisters and I...who is going to make the hollandaise? We all remembered our mother's sauce like it was yesterday, but no one knew the recipe. All we knew was that it bursted with the zing of fresh lemons and that Thanksgiving wouldn't be the same without it.

So I was delegated the task. And, as many of you know, this sauce is a little daunting when you have never made it before (even for me with professional cooking experience).

So, I decided to make it on the day of Thanksgiving while we were all together at my sister Debbie's house.

Things were going fine, I was at the oh so crucial double boiler stage, trying not to put scrambled eggs on the menu, when it happened. My brother in-law who was leaning over me watching like a hawk, tipped a glass of white wine (a very nice sauvignon Blanc) right into the sauce! He screamed "oh no, what did I do!" So we sat down, took a deep breath and oh so timidly dipped a spoon in for a taste.............and it was absolutely delicious. So as it turned out, there was only one way mom's sauce could be improved upon...........by adding a half cup of your favorite white wine.

Patricia's Super Lemony Hollandaise

3 Egg Yolks
1 1/2 Sticks of Butter
The juice of 4 lemons
and now...1/2 cup of your favorite Savignon Blanc

1. Bring 4 cups of water to a boil in medium sauce pan
2. In a medium sized mixing bowl (one that will rest nicely on top of your boiling water pot), whisk in the 3 eggs lightly.
3. Reduce the water to a simmer and place the mixing bowl over the pot.
Continue lightly whisking eggs and slowly add in a cube of butter one at a time until blended.
*** Remove from heat for a moment if the eggs are getting to hot. You don't want scrambled eggs!
4. Once all the butter is blended, add the fresh lemon juice and get your brother in-law to knock in the white wine. Remove from heat and serve room temperature over fresh steamed broccoli and cauliflower!