This has been shared before, I know. Still, it’s delicious and easy, so do it!
Just cut some thick slices of onion or pepper. Thick and even is key as otherwise there will be leaks.
I love to eat them on a piece of toast.
Month: March 2016
Eggtastic Tuesday- Breakfast Burrito Wraps
I’ve decided to do a new egg recipe every Tuesday. It is that season after all. Everyone is drowning in eggs.
This recipe used a dozen eggs but can be customized to fit specific needs.
Essentially all you do is cut up and cook your preferred fillings, cook some eggs and roll it all up in a tortilla.
We decided to try a different method to the egg cooking and rolling than normal. Usually the eggs are scrambled. We cooked them more like an omelet. Our skillet was the same size as our tortilla and thus the eggs fit our tortilla nicely. The result could be considered more of a wrap than a burrito but it still had that amazing burrito flavor. Actually it was better than any breakfast burrito we’d ever eaten before. I credit using a blender to fluff up the eggs before cooking.
These burrito/wraps can be made ahead of time and frozen to be used as needed.
Breakfast Burritos
Ingredients:
- 12 eggs
- 1 red bell pepper, chopped
- ½ large onion, chopped
- 2 cloves garlic, minced
- 1-2 cups black beans
- ¼ cup green onions, chopped
- 2 potatoes, cubed and fried
- ¼ cup black olives
- 1 cup pork cracklings
- 2 cups breakfast sausage, cooked
- 6 tortillas
- 1 tsp Paprika
- 1 tsp chili powder
- Salt and Pepper to taste
- 2 Tbs milk
- Salsa
- Sour Cream
Directions:
Have all fillings prepared and waiting. Have 2 skillets heating over medium-low heat. Crack the eggs into a blender with the milk. Add the seasonings. Blend until bubbly. Pour enough egg mixture into the skillet to coat the bottom. The egg will puff up. Add whatever filling you would like to the egg at this time. Cook until coming off the side of the skillet and then flip. If you are competent enough to flip the egg in one skillet, do so. Otherwise flip it into the other skillet and cook through.
Place cooked filling onto the tortilla and roll. If freezing, then wrap into tin foil. Otherwise, Enjoy!
Proof that Permaculture WORKS!
As if you needed proof, I know. Still, I am excited today.
A review of the orchard shows more trees that survived the winter than I had anticipated. The mini kraters and swales have done amazing things. We are set to have a bumper crop of plums this year, so long as we don’t get a late freeze, fierce wind, or some other completely likely weather event.
Why would I say this small 5 acre orchard is proof that permaculture works? It is dry here. Very dry. Made worse by the incredible wind we suffer from. We are high up, cold, besotted with pests. There is no genetic material available from our state to base our plantings on. We have everything going against us, including public opinion.
“You can’t grow _____ in Wyoming!” I hear it every single time I talk to a local about the orchard. When we are open to the public minds are going to be blown!
If I can grow trees here with little to no watering (certainly no irrigation), than permaculture planting techniques are a blazing success.
This winter we harvested so much snow we even created an ideal place for pests to hide.
I do hate those ground animals.
I’ve also been successful at growing garlic and onions for the first time. Ruth Stoute and mulching, a real winner!
I’d highly recommend permaculture planting techniques to everyone and you should too.
Spinach and Caramelized Onion Frittata
It’s egg season. We are currently getting 10 chicken eggs a day. Duck eggs depend on whether we beat the pigs to them or not. We waste a lot of these eggs. A lot are fed back to the dogs or pigs. So, I’m making an effort to learn egg heavy recipes and I’m going to share them with you.
This recipe is a big hit. Delicious and easy, it requires 9 eggs.
I also love this recipe because it reheats extremely well. Husband and I are the only real big egg eaters so we had a lot of this left over. We were able to eat it for breakfast another day and it tasted almost as good as fresh made.
Spinach and Caramelized Onion Frittata
Ingredients:
9 eggs
1 handful spinach, chopped
½ large onion, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
1tsp Paprika
Salt and Pepper to taste
Green onions (optional garnish)
Directions:
In a large cast iron skillet add the onions and cook on low about 5-10 minutes. Add fresh chopped spinach and garlic. Stir until the spinach has wilted.
Meanwhile in a small bowl beat the 9 eggs with the paprika and salt and pepper. Add to the onion and spinach and use your spatula to make sure the mixture is flat. Cook on the stove top until the edges are beginning to stiffen. Then transfer to the onion and broil on low an additional 10-15 minutes.
Prepping onions and spinach
Adding the eggs to the pan. I didn’t realize before this picture just how colored our eggs are.
Cooking the edges
Enjoy!
It’s beautiful!
A cheap way to acquire garden seeds
There are lots of ways to get things growing cheaply. You can save seeds. You can grow produce from scraps. You can join a seed or plant exchange, etc. I wanted to grow pinto beans this year. Perhaps a few other shelled bean varieties as well. The seeds seemed rather expensive though. $6 for an oz of seeds, yikes. So, like other growth endeavors I looked to the supermarket. I’ve previously grown quinoa and lentils from supermarket bulk bins. I’ve grown sunflowers from bird seed. Could beans be grown easily as well?
I bought pinto and black beans and the kids helped start the germination test. Simple paper towel and ziploc bag taped to the window. We started our watermelon seeds like this as well.
Germination has been a success. 100% germination for the pinto beans and 80% for the black. I’ll be buying a bag of pinto beans (10lbs for $14.99) and spreading it about in various places to find the easiest way to grow it. We eat a lot of Mexican food here so I’ll be excited not to have to buy canned pinto beans again!
Dealing with rabbit problems in the orchard
We have a lot of obstacles to growing here in Wyoming. We’re high. We’re dry. We have insane winds. We have extreme fluctuating temperatures. We’ve got a short growing season.
Hmm. Why do we live here again? I’ll get back to you on that.
A lot of these things we just have to deal with. Rabbits, however, can be….dealt with. Ok, mostly I just complain about them, loud and often. I’m not a particularly good shot. Mostly I just don’t care to learn. Husband is a great shot though. Encouraging him to get out there and do some mafioso style hits is the problem. The rabbits don’t bother him like they do me. Probably because the growing stuff thing is all me.
We had a dog who was great at hunting rabbits once. Now he’s dead and our other dogs couldn’t catch a rabbit if we held it in front of their faces.
I know how a lot of permies deal with the rabbit scourge. I tried Sepp Holzer’s bone sauce last year. The rabbits appear to like it quite a bit. Utter failure. I do put tree guards on all of my trees that are large enough to support them, and some that probably aren’t. The rabbits appear to like their food wrapped. Leaving low hanging branches for them to nibble is a great idea. My trees aren’t exactly large enough to do that. Every branch is a low hanging branch at the moment. I encourage predators. Unfortunately the dogs don’t. In fact they do a great job of repelling predators. It’s like a bunny sanctuary at our house.
I suppose beyond wholesale slaughter of Satan’s furred minions I have no idea what to do about this rabbit problem. I guess I’ll try to look at the bright side and think fertilizer. Bunny poop fertilizer. That’s something I’m not lacking.
The above pictures are all of the same tree. Please explain to me how the rabbits did that.
Just a fun pic. It’s SOOOO hard to get good pics of things when the instant I focus in on something my “help” jumps in the way.