/ck/ - Food & Cooking

There's a cooking competition at my work right now for a pretty large pot. The competition is to make some variation of eggs benedict, consisting of a bread, meat, a poached egg, and some kind of hollandaise. My idea was to have a steak with bearnaise over a rye or sourdough bread. Any advice would be appreciated but my main questions are what cut of meat I should use and what bread pairing would be good. I intend to make everything my self and I have a week to prepare, so no breads that need 20 year old starters please.

super fucking basic and cliche, but a nice 24oz tenderloin (or sirloin, or hell, even round steak Im not super picky), 2 large garlic mashed potatoes (with a small pinch of blue cheese thrown in when the buttermilk is added during the mashing), gravy, and some steamed vegetables kind of al dente with a nice creamy cheese sauce.

When I order this at a restaurant I usually get a few shrimp skewers and another 8oz steak (medium rare of course) on the side, so I guess I'd do the same thing for my last meal. And hell, its my last meal so I'd also request that I get a bag of movie theatre popcorn as well along with the largest, freshest coca-cola they have. It would have to be popcorn made at the theatre and transported to my holding cell, something about it just tastes different from popcorn you make yourself or buy elsewhere