Breakfast Ideas

[Jessica]

Breakfast Burritos

1 dozen eggs
1/2 cup milk
1 lb bacon (12 slices)
6 cheese slices
12 flour tortillas

First cook bacon or sausage or any other ingredients.  Combine eggs and milk, beat.
Pour into hot skillet and scramble.
Allow to cool while preparing an assembly line station for making the burritos.
Let your ingredients cool  before making the tacos because too much heat will steam them and make them wet.  
Warm up the tortillas by heating them in the microwave covered by a damp towel for about 1 minute, until they are soft and pliable.
Lay out a tortilla, add a small slice of cheese, a small scoop of egg, and a small scoop of whatever else you are adding, a slice of bacon, etc… Don’t try to over stuff the tortillas or they will rip or leak and you won’t have your handy portable breakfast.
Fold in the sides then roll the tortilla up so all the filling is enclosed. Place seam side down to cool. Continue with remaining tortillas and filling.
Once burritos are cool roll them up in parchment or wax paper or plastic wrap. Freeze.
To reheat:  If wrapped in paper, place in the microwave and microwave in 30 second bursts for about 2 minutes or until hot through.  If wrapped in plastic, remove plastic wrap and wrap in a paper towel to microwave.

[Jessica]

Breakfast Sandwiches
makes 12 sandwiches, prep 10 min, cook time 20 minutes
12 english muffins or mini bagels
1 pound bacon or 12 sausage patties
12 eggs
3 cups shredded cheese or 12 slices of cheese

Toast english muffins or bagels, set aside.

Cut bacon in half and cook or cook sausage patties.  Set aside.

Grease a muffin tin and either crack an egg into each muffin space and lightly beat or beat eggs together in a bowl and pour into each space.

Bake eggs at 400°F for 10 minutes or until almost done.

When eggs are almost set cover each egg with 1/4 cup shredded cheese.

Return to the oven until cheese is melted.

Remove egg/cheese muffins and allow to cool.

Assemble sandwiches and allow to cool completely.

Wrap in plastic wrap, then store in a freezer bag in the freezer.

To reheat, unwrap and microwave for 1 minute to 1 minute 30 seconds, checking every 30 seconds.

These are also good in the refrigerator if you will eat them within a week.  Just warm up for 30 seconds in the microwave.

[Tina]

I love breakfast sandwiches on biscuits the most.

[Jessica]

I like biscuits or croissants the most but I don't think the english muffins will be too bad. I think they are better for us too.

[Penny]

We eat alot of english muffins here, but i buy the whole wheat ones, good with a cooked egg, and some cooked ham.

[Triss]

Moving this over here so I can find all of these yummy ideas in one place

Oatmeal Pancakes
 
1 1/4 cups milk
1 cup rolled oats
1 tbsp. oil
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup whole wheat flour
1 tbsp. brown sugar
1 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
 
Combine the milk and rolled oats in a bowl and let stand at least five minutes.
 
Add the oil and beaten eggs, mixing well.  Stir in the flour, sugar, baking powder and salt.  Mix just until the dry ingredients and moistened.
 
Bake on a hot, lightly oiled griddle, using 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake.  Turn them when the top is bubbly and the edges are slightly dry.
 
Makes 10 to 12 pancakes.

[Jessica]

Thanks Triss!

[bestofour]

My pancakes were runny.  When I poured the batter into the pan the liquid ran and left the oats in a clump in the middle.  When I tried to even things out the liquid ran more.

what did I do wrong?  I soaked the oats and flour in buttermilk overnight but I didn't count that in the milk measurements.   The overnight mixture wasn't runny at all.  All the liquid had soaked in.

[Jessica]

Sheri, they have never been runny for me but I have never soaked my oats overnight.  I think Tina has so she might have some advice.

[barleychown]

I use the full amount of buttermilk as the milk in the recipe, soak overnite then add the rest of the ingredients and proceed. Sorry we were not more clear on that! 

[bestofour]

There you go then.  The overnight mixture was all stuck together but I only put in enough to cover the stuff.    I wondered about it before I did it so I should have asked.  Next time.

[Tina]

So sorry, Sheri. After soaking my last batch (in the full amount of milk called for), I did have to add a little more liquid to reach the pouring stage I wanted. But the mixture I posted is pretty thick to begin with and scoops up without much in the way of drips.
I saw organic pancake batter in a spray can the other day, like a whipped cream can? It cracked me up.

[bestofour]

Try it and let us know.