Dairylicious Breakfast Taco
(c) Dorine Houston 2008, all rights reserved
Your family is looking for a healthier, tastier breakfast, and you need to offer something suited to the morning rush. Take inspiration from Mexico and the Southwest!
The night before, prepare the vegetable filling and store in a covered glass bowl. Dice tomatillos or tomatoes and avocado. Shred some romaine lettuce (the darker green color makes it richer in vitamins than iceberg) and chop some cilantro or flat-leaf parsley. Squeeze in some fresh lime juice and toss together. In the morning, toss again with a bit of salt.
In the morning, fill crisp taco shells with slivers of your favorite cheese. Jack always works. Some like cheddar. I like to use muenster. Each person should have at least an ounce of cheese either in a single shell, or preferably, in two shells. Sprinkle to taste with your favorite hot sauce. (I like Cholula.) Put the shells on a platter and microwave on high for a minute, or until the cheese melts.
Set the shells on individual plates and fill with the vegetable mixture. Enjoy immediately.
With it, enjoy a Mexican-flavored latte. Put 3/4 cup milk per person, preferably whole, in a saucepan and add a stick of cinnamon. Simmer for 10 minutes and then refrigerate overnight with the cinnamon stick still in it so the flavor infuses.
In the morning, measure 3 scoops very finely ground coffee for each person, preferably expresso, into a saucepan. Add 1/2 cup water per serving. Bring to a boil, turn off heat and let rest a few minutes. Pour mixture through a paper or Mexican cloth coffee filter. Reheat the milk with cinnamon from the refrigerator. Divide coffee among mugs and add milk. Sweeten or not to taste.
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Comments: 34
However, the fragrance of frying eggs and bacon in the morning is heavenly!
I really hate events where every doggone thing offered to eat and drink is friggin' sweet!!! Gack!
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Middle Eastern breakfasts include sliced tomatoes and cucumbers. My niece, who like most grew up on cold cereal and hates it almost as much as I do, recently came back from a trip to Turkey utterly thrilled with the sliced vegetables for breakfast.
Would you find unappetizing the broiled tomato so often offered on the traditional British breakfast plate?
Normally I have oatmeal cooked in juice and skim milk with wheat germ and raisins for breakfast. I let it cool more on hot days, otherwise it is the same every day except for the flavor of the juice. (currently V-8 Fusion - double good!)
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That being said, I can see where some people are turned off by the idea of a breakfast taco but would probably be willing to eat a breakfast burrito stuffed with eggs, bacon and sauteed spinach.
My suggestion, then, would be to substitute the romaine lettuce with a sauteed spinach, perhaps, and see if this is more palatable to more people. Also an option to have a soft tortilla vs. a crisp shell might go over better.
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Hope you'll check it out and thanks again for the taco breakfast idea.
Erin, veggies are a lot easier to stomach in the morning that (gack!) sugary stuff!