Make the Blackberry Sage Refrigerator Jam up to a week in advance. Did you read it over? Still seem like too much trouble? Take a jar of blackberry jam and melt it down in the microwave (in a heat safe bowl of course). Add the sage while it’s boiling. Let cool. It will infuse the jam. Or just use plain blackberry jam.

Mix the goat cheese and honey together. You can do this up to a couple of days in advance. You will want the cheese at room temperature when you assemble the Benedict, but if you forget, just warm it for a few seconds in the microwave to make it spreadable.

Make the biscuits day of, but hours ahead of time works great. Keep them out or store them in an open plastic bag.

Poach the eggs up to a day in advance. As you pull the eggs out of the hot water, place them in an ice bath. Store them in the fridge in the ice bath. You could even precook the sausage as per the package instructions.

When you’re ready to assemble, fill a sauté pan or large pot with a couple of inches of water. Turn on low heat. Set the eggs in the water.

Split the biscuits in half. Toast.

Slice the sausage links in half. Rewarm in a skillet.

Check on the eggs. Is the water just barely warm, that’s perfect.

Make the Hollandaise.

Check the eggs. You don’t want them to keep cooking, so if it’s moving from warm into hot, remove from the heat but leave in the water bath.

Spread goat cheese on each side of the biscuit.

Then top with jam.

Next place sausage link halves on each biscuit.

Top with an egg when the Hollandaise is ready to serve.

Spoon a little Hollandaise, or let guests serve themselves. I served it with a pea, asparagus and arugula salad with a buttermilk mint dressing that was very similar to my Smoky, Spicy Homemade Buttermilk Dressing, but I nixed the smoked paprika and used mint instead of cilantro. I love the sweet and savory of each element in this dish. The flavors layer really well build on each other. Oh, and I was totally right. The biscuit was way better than the English muffin because it was less tart (which the goat cheese spread takes care of ) and it was flaky and offered a little more texture. But hey, it's not bossy when you're the boss. And it was perfect with the J Winery Sparkling Rose and the 2003 rrv.