September 27, 2012

Breakfast Burritos to go!

Breakfast is important but it's also the hardest time to think of food for me.
Often because I can't really eat something right after I woke up and I'm usually
running out the door let alone think of cooking something for breakfast.

Cereal, oatmeal, toast, bagels, eggs, pre-cooked bacon... these are all great--
but I decided to try making breakfast burritos ahead of time and then I simply wrapped
each one, froze them and then microwaved them each morning.

It was a nice and an easy breakfast to simply change it up.



Ingredients:
(it really depends on how many you are making)
I made 5 to start it off.
---5 soft flour totillas (often used for soft tacos)
---3 eggs scrambled (any way you like) 
(I usally use S & P, a little tried chives and a sprinkle of paprika)
---1 potato shredded 
---sausage or simply use ground pork
---shredded cheese 
---bell pepper (1/4 of pepper)

I started by cooking the eggs first with a little butter (or olive oil)
and then took the eggs out and set them aside in a bowl.
I then fried the shredded potatoes.
(a way for easier frying when  it comes to shredded potatoes is to rinse them to get
the extra starch out, then to use a clean kitchen towel or paper towel and dry them well.
Squeezing the extra water/starch off of them...
will help when you fry them and make them more crispier also.


Next, cook up sausage or you can use bacon or you can leave the meat out, cultivate it
and make it your own!  For this batch, I made sausage with a few slivers of diced
red and yellow bell peppers.


Tortilla wrap, sausage with peppers, topped with fried hash browns,
topped with scramble eggs and cheese!


Wrap them individually in clear wrap and then lay them flat in your freezer.
In the morning, after you've gotten yourself ready---- ready to be seen by other humans, 
open your freezer and grab an already made, home-made breakfast burrito.
Microwave it for about a minute and a half... and ta-da!  ready to go!

It beats the same ole bagel or toast every morning and is a great way to change it
up from time to time.