Since at least 2015, I’ve been doing a fairly consistent intermittent fast — meaning, after dinner, I don’t eat again until lunch. Folks can debate the merits of this as a health strategy as long as the day is long, but for me, I enjoyed the simplicity of it and felt, for the most part, pretty good.
This week, I got a hankering for breakfast. Not sure why, but for some reason, I got a hankering for savory oatmeal. Here’s what I made:
Make a bowl of rolled oats by bringing salted water to a boil, dumping in your oats, and cooking until the water is mostly absorbed and the oats are soft. Meanwhile, in butter, fry an egg sunny side up (or however you like you eggs). Put the oatmeal in a bowl, top liberally with shredded cheddar cheese (or whatever cheese you have on hand), top with your egg and a dash of hot sauce, if you’re feeling… saucy.
That was a real shot of life. So, the next day, I figured I’d try breakfast again, with a double loaded cheesy egg taco:
Heat two tortillas in a cast iron pan. Once they are warm, add a hearty serving of cheese on top of one, and then put the other tortilla on top (a quesadilla). While the cheese is melting in between the tortillas. make a sunny side up egg (or other). Remove the quesadilla from the pan, add the egg on top. Top with hot sauce, fold, and enjoy taco style.
So there are two easy breakfast recipes. If I had bacon on hand, I would have added it to both of those (crumbled with the oats, stripped on the taco). Who knows if I’ll keep eating breakfast, but you certainly can.
Read some stuff and drink your coffee black.
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