Friday, February 10, 2012

Breakfast...for my man...

Last night the husband went to the hospital to visit one of his employees.
Conveniently, it took him by his parents' house on his way home.
And he ate dinner there.
After I had already made dinner for him at our house.
So the final bit of our previous quarter of a steer went back in the refrigerator with a baked potato (green bean leftovers went in a separate container...)
But I was bound and determined to get him to eat it one way or another...
So for breakfast he's having...

Tortilla Espanola en Tortilla Mexicana

See...When I was in high school I went to Spain.
And what did they eat...
Seemingly at every meal...
Tortilla Espanola...Scrambled egg with potatoes with lots of olive oil...
They'd eat it cold, sliced up, on French bread slathered in mayo for school lunches...
They'd eat it hot at dinner at 10 pm...
They'd eat it as a snack when they got home from disco at 3 am...
With salad...bread...as a side...as the main dish...
But never at breakfast...
Maybe it was just the family I stayed with, but it seemed to be the PBJ of their society...
So here's my modified version to use up what was leftover...

Heat up the cast iron with some olive oil...
Thinly slice cold baked potatoes
Chop up the steak and place the steak and potatoes on the skillet.
Let them get nice and crispy.



Get one freshly layed but deformed egg.

Look at the color...



I love the color of home grown eggs...But I digress
Scramble it up...
Push the steak and eggs to the back of the skillet and cook the egg
(authentically, the egg would be poured over the potatoes)
Push the egg to the back of the skillet.
Place the Tortilla Mexicana (what, in America, is called a tortilla) on the skillet and warm it up a second.
Flip it onto a plate.
Put some cheese on the tortilla...
top with meat, potatoes, and egg, and more cheese.
The cheese acts as glue so it doesn't all wind up on the lap of the husband as he drives to work.


Wrap it up and hope he enjoys it...


1 comment:

Thanks for visiting with us girls...put your feet up and stay for a while.