A Wholesome Quick Sunday Breakfast

So here we are, Sunday morning. Reading the news, lingering over coffee. I'm hungry.
"I'm hungry, what do you want to eat?" 
"Eggs I guess."

"Hmm." I groan inside. I love eggs. I eat eggs every day. In most ways possible. Everyday. I want bread. Waffles. Pancakes. I'm not eating gluten right now. I'm considering gluten free popovers. I made some very yummy ones, 18 of them. We ate 12 in one shot. I don't advise it. 

Eggs. I scan the fridge. 1/2 an onion,1/2 a zucchini. Oh, we have spicy dried chorizo! Cilantro,mushrooms, tomato, a bit of grated cheese. And corn tortillas.Chewy. Happiness.

Here's what I came up with lickety-split. My husband titled it Tostada Supreme. 
Let's call it;

 Huevos Ranchero Frittata Tostada

                             
1/2 small onion                            
1/2 small zucchini
4 mushrooms
1/2 tomato
1/4 cup chopped dried chorizo sausage
1 Tlsp. butter
chopped cilantro, to taste
3 scallions, chopped
4 lg eggs, beaten with a bit of water
1/4 cup grated cheese (whatever you've got that goes)
4 small corn tortillas (white or yellow)

Cube onion, zucchini, mushrooms, tomato and chorizo in to small pieces. In a heavy skillet, preferably non stick, melt butter over medium heat. Add onion, zucchini and mushrooms. Put a lid on letting the veggies cook down. Remove lid; add tomato and chorizo, finish cooking veggies until well cooked or browned, how you like them. Add eggs. With a rubber spatula scoot the mixture around letting the egg get under the veggies around the sides. Cover and cook until the eggs start to set, about 4 min. check that the eggs are cooking in the center but still runny on top. Sprinkle with the cilantro, scallions, cheese. Cover and turn heat off. 
Sometime while cooking frittata put the 4 tortillas in a toaster oven (or oven) and toast slightly, until they are firm.. not too much or they break. (You can also fry the in oil in a frying pan, a less healthy way of making tostadas).

Serve the huevos frittata over the corn tortillas with your favorite hot sauce!


Additional ingredients could include green or red peppers, left over potato, finely minced greens. whatever you have on hand to make this up quick! This whole thing should take about 15 minutes.

A Greens Flop

I had good intentions this past fall. Really. I scoured piles at the sides of roads for the perfect windows  to build cold frames with. We built them. Aren't they pretty? See the warm, solid walls around that happy baby bok choi? The very same bok choi I let down, ruined, froze anyway. Intentions are one thing. Laziness another. After a full spring and summer of hard gardening work I had no idea how complacent I would be to BUY my greens at the market. Something I have taken for granted all these years suddenly seemed like a treat. Oh, no roots attached? No bugs? Organic and I did not struggle for it? Oooh.

Something happens in the wee minutes of spring though. I long to be in the dirt. To push in the onion starts and pea seeds. I will go out every morning once I've planted them, probably in bare feet ,with a steaming cup of coffee , to check on their progress. I will do this for a long time, because they won't come up until the ground warms, but they like the initial shock of cold. My feet don't.




We will repurpose our cold frames for the summer. Create raised beds out of them, take the windows off (they are very nice windows, I want to preserve them!), fill them with soil and compost and grow  lettuces in them. Next fall I will be ready to put in our greens earlier, put the windows back on and have good intentions. Again.

Now we have a beautiful winter scape of a garden. The cold frames, which I left open too many below freezing evenings, are now humps of snow. Our deer netting came down in the last storm. I love how the snow covers up the mess of gardening things strewed around we we're to lazy to put away. 
There is definitely something akin to feeling like hibernating when fall comes, a laziness I just can't shake. A hunkering down to let everything rest. As long as the energy to spring clean is there after, because we've a lot of work to do.