Make your own breakfast in the morning is easy to say, but if you cut the time window down as much as I do, it's pretty hard to find something. It has to be something that you can keep supplied in the house (you need this every day, so what happens when you're out?), something you have time to make, and most importantly, something that you actually enjoy eating.
Here's one that I've found I can come back to repeatedly and not get sick of it.
- Get a carton of what I call "egg stuff", but is marketed as Egg Beaters. Basically it's scrambled egg whites. Important to get the scrambled yellow stuff, not the running white stuff. The latter is only good for baking substitute, the former you can actually eat. The other good thing about EggBeaters is that it comes in a variety of flavors, including southwestern, veggie, and my current favorite, ham and cheese.
- Get some "lavash" flat bread.
- In the morning, pour about half a cup of egg beater stuff into a bowl.
- Microwave until it's not soup anymore. For me, in my microwave, that's about 2 minutes 30 seconds, depending on how much I put in there (never measure, just eyeball).
- Scoop it out with a rubber spatula, deposit on flatbread. Chop it up a bit and spread it around. (If the flatbread is too big you can possibly even cut it in half.)
- If desired, add stuff. Sometimes I'll throw in an extra piece of cheese, or maybe some pepperoni or something. Whatever floats your boat.
- Roll. Remember to fold up one of the open ends so it doesn't drip out on you.
- Put dishes in sink, rinse. You don't want to be leaving egg in there to get dried on forever.
- Wrap your burrito in a paper towel and off you go.
I have this for breakfast close to every day, or at least every day when we have the supplies in the house, and I've got the 2 minutes. It's quick, it's healthy (well, healthier...), and it's as tasty as I want to make it. I tend to eat it while driving.
The flatbread wrap works best, from experience . Traditional sandwich bread gets all soggy easily, not to mention letting hunks of egg drip out the bottom and onto your shirt. Syrian pockets fall apart and experience the same drippy problem. English muffins are too small. Bagels are perfect sized, but again, there's that whole drippy factor. Can you tell that I've had egg dripped on me on the way to work? It's not fun. If you want to eat this thing in the car while you're driving to work, you have to consider such things.
Enjoy. Anybody got any other recipes that fit the quick/easy/tasty bill?
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