Table Talk
Huevos Rancheros
I love breakfast. I love eggs of all kinds, pancakes and waffles, oatmeal and juice, and especially toast. On weekends, I like to cook sourdough pancakes or Belgian waffles, and some sort of fun egg dish. Sometimes we do Italian eggs, or eggs benedict, cheesy scrambled eggs or eggs on toast. But yesterday, I wanted something different. Rummaging around in my refrigerator, I searched for inspiration: lettuce? no. Dijon. nah. Leftover refried beans? ok, now we were getting somewhere. I found some corn tortillas, some cheddar cheese and salsa, and I was on my way to one of the easiest breakfasts ever: huevos rancheros. I've seen a dozen different recipes for this dish, but I wasn't after anything fancy. I sprayed 4 tortillas with cooking spray and put them in a warm oven (300 degrees). I then warmed the beans, grated the cheese and cooked some fried eggs. To serve, I put 2 warm tortillas on each plate, topped them with beans, a sprinkling of cheese, the fried eggs, a little more cheese on top, and slathered it all with roasted tomato salsa. Maybe it wasn't particularly authentic, but it was delicious and so easy!
