What better way to start the cooking section off than with breakfast, the most important meal of the day! Which in our house is usually cereal, selected for the cartoon character on the front and potential prize inside. However, in an attempt to be more healthy, I have chosen to fix my kids a morning meal full of fat and cholesterol. Take that, high fructose corn syrup!
You could make a healthier version of this using turkey sausage, egg beaters and low carb tortillas. But then you’re really just showing off.
So, in the spirit of The Pioneer Woman herself, I give you BREAKFAST BURRITOS. A step-by-step recipe, with pictures! (How the heck does she do this? She either has a photographer or waaaaay too much time on her hands and is freakishly ambidextrous!)
Gather together all your ingredients. We’re keepin’ it simple here.
Rachel would be proud!
Eggs, sausage, cheese, tortillas and salsa (optional, I suppose.)
Start with the sausage and a medium-high hot skillet.
It’ll come out in its tube-like form
and remind me just a bit of the Graboids in Tremors.
Smoosh it all around so it cooks more quickly and evenly.
Pretty soon it’ll be all crumbly and look a lot like cooked ground beef.
Only it will smell more bacony. Yum!
Drain off all the excess fat.
I also rinse it with super hot water.
That keeps it all hot, but really cuts down on the grease.
I also take a minute and rinse the skillet with hot water too.
Makin’ it as grease free as possible. ‘Cause I’m all healthful like that.
Set the skillet back on the burner, same medium-high temp.
Toss half the cooked and rinsed sausage back in.
(I put the other half in a tupperware container and save it for another meal.)
Then start adding eggs. I used a full dozen, but they were mediums.
You can use more or less, depending on your egg to sausage ratio preference.
Stir it all together and keep it moving. You want ‘em scrambled, not burnt!
Once the eggs are all cooked, turn the burner off, but leave the skillet on it.
While that’s keeping warm, take the tortillas out of the package.
Put ‘em on a microwave safe plate and nuke ‘em for 30 seconds.
Check to see if they’re slightly warm. If not, nuke ‘em for another 30.
Now it’s the fun part – assembly time!
Put a warm tortilla on a plate. Spoon on the desired amount of egg-sausagey goodness.
Sprinkle on the shredded cheese of your choice.
Here’s where you add the salsa, sour cream or whatever else you fancy.R
Roll it all up, traditional burrito-style and enjoy!
My teenage boys pronounced it better than McDonalds.
The official seal of approval.
I’d like to apologize for the picture quality. I had my camera on the wrong setting and didn’t realize it til near the end. I don’t have one of those fancy cameras with the ten foot telescopic lenses. Just a little Kodak point and shoot. Which I love. But definitely isn’t professional grade. I’ll just have to work on my mad shootin’ skillz.
