Mexican Scramble 10/4/09

Arielle asked me yesterday about a recipe for a breakfast scramble. So, I tried hard to think of the last time I made one. It had obviously been too long. So today, I tried out my "Everything in the Fridge Mexican Scramble" ( has anyone else noticed that Mexican food is the easiest to prepare because you just throw everything in there with some salsa or hot sauce?)

Here it is:
I baked some red skin potatoes in the microwave until they were done (5-7 minutes). Then let them cool a bit and diced them. I heated about a 1/4 inch of olive oil in a large skillet, on medium high. I threw the potatoes in with salt, cracked black pepper and cumin, and let them brown (be careful, they splatter when you're doing them this high, but it's the only way to get them really nice a brown and crispy on the outside). I used that time to prepare my other ingredients.





Next, I lowered the heat to medium and added diced green chilies, green onions, stewed tomatoes that I cut with a kitchen shears and some more s&p and chipotle chili powder.

After a few minutes of cooking on medium, I added diced ham and chopped fresh garlic.



I sauteed for a few minutes with the ham and garlic in the middle of the skillet, then mixed everything together.



I then added the eggs (which I seasoned with a bit of s&p and a couple tablespoons of milk). Then, when the eggs were almost set, I added some fresh grated extra sharp cheddar cheese.

Serve with warm tortillas, sour cream (fat free of course!), green onion tops and valentina hot sauce (gabe's favorite) or frank's hot sauce (my favorite). Enjoy!

dresses

lazy sunday

it's cool, it's rainy, i got to sleep in on a sunday... perfect! here's lunch!

tomato and spinach couscous (from a box mix) and cuban black beans... best part is 1 cup of couscous + 1/2 cup of black beans = 5 WW points only! and it's so filling! (cuban black bean recipe is on here somewhere, so i'll spare you the recipe again)

April

I probably won't be posting too much on here for the next little while for 2 reasons:
1. I'm SUPER busy... with school (I"ll be graduating April 25!!yay!) and with my two part time jobs (Holland and research assisting).
2. I've just started on Weight Watchers. I'm not really telling too many people, but I figure, my friends on here are close, so I'm sure I've already told you anyway, or I would have in the near future anyway.
So, hopefully I'll figure out how to make some stuff that is low points when I have a little more time. For now, I'm sticking to salads and other things that I just have to "prepare" rather than cook. Kind of a bummer since I love cooking, but it's good timing because I'm so busy anyway.
See you on the flip side

It's been a while

I've made some great food lately... here's just a preview

roasted whole chicken with sweet potato fries


fish tacos, with tilapia, home made salsa and home made cumin and garlic aioli


pot roast with root vegetables


RIBS!!!!


(I've posted this one before, but it's black bean burgers! YUM!)


southwest chicken panini... mmmm.... home made southwest sauce


more chicken enchiladas


chicken and noodle soup (it wasn't very soupy... haha!)


angel hair pasta with shrimp and broccoli



I've also eaten some amazing food... here's genuine chicago deep dish pizza... man, that was good!