Wake up, but the alarm didn’t go off, ah man! Now I’m late and for many of us that feeling stays all day long. Not fun.
While we don’t always have control over if the alarm goes off, phones can have a mind of their own, we can do a few other things to make even a morning with a late start go a bit smoother.
Smooth mornings actually start the night before with a little bit of planning and prep. I learned some of this from my mom, who raised my sister and I as a single mom and taught us how we could help her along the way. You don’t have to be a single mom to teach your children how to help you. This is not pushing your responsibility off on them or being lazy. This is giving them age appropriate tasks to help them learn to human on their own, over time, not all at once when they move out.
Below is a list of items to do the night before, look at this list as you’re putting dinner away and start planning for tomorrow. The image can be downloaded to your device for easy viewing or you can download the pdf file below that and print it out to hang on the fridge.
BREAKFAST BURRITOS
Ingredients
2 lbs of hash browns, cubed, frozen dehydrated… shredded doesn’t matter
1 lb of breakfast meat of choice
12 eggs
28oz can of green enchilada sauce
10oz can of tomatoes with green chiles
8oz of shredded cheese of choice, more if desired for topping
12 burrito size tortillas
Directions
Thaw or re-hydrate hash browns. Cook the meat. When the meat is finished cook the eggs in that fat. Add the hash browns. When the hash browns are nearly done, add the meat back in. Add the enchilada sauce and tomatoes*. Keep stirring and getting everything warmed up.
*Keep some aside for topping plated burritos if desired. I this is a Colorado thing and might be unfamiliar to some. Warm up this chili before topping burritos with it.
Mix in the cheese.
Fill the tortillas and roll.
If serving immediately, plate them and cover with more chili and cheese if desired.
If freezing for later, wrap each one in foil, place in a large freezer baggy and freeze.
To reheat wrapped frozen burritos, you can place them in the fridge to thaw the night before, but no worries if you forget to do that you can still thaw them in microwave, see those instructions below.
For thawed burritos I like to put them in the oven on 325F for about 20 minutes while I finish getting ready and gathering everything, everyone up. You can microwave them if you choose to, just remember to remove the foil first. Then re-wrap them when they are done.
Place hot burritos in a cooler and bring along a cloth napkin for everyone to hold their warm burrito in when it’s time to eat.
To reheat frozen burritos, remove the burrito from the wrapper and place on a plate. Heat in the microwave for about a minute and a half. Turn the burrito. Heat another 45 seconds. If they burritos isn’t ready to eat, turn and heat in 20 second increments until done. Doing more than one burrito might take longer. Re-wrap the burrito in foil to keep warm until ready to eat.
Picky eaters or food allergies, just keep all the ingredients separate and let people build their own. Our daughter won’t eat chorizo and prefers hers in a bowl not a tortilla.
These burritos began with my mom, who made them a little different than above. They weren’t made often and never “to-go”. She put bacon AND sausage in them and the chili was only on top.
Growing up it was just my mom, sister and I, often with my mom’s parents joining us, but that’s all the family I had. As you can see this recipe will make a lot, so mom made it for special breakfasts when we would all be around for the day, such as Thanksgiving, Christmas or Easter morning.
After Jack of All Trades and I got married, had a couple of children and started hosting celebrations at our home, we needed easy things to serve to guests and one of the first things I remember serving are these burritos. All the ingredients mixed up in a bowl, with tortillas, chili and more cheese set up buffet-style on the walk through kitchen counter. They were a hit.
We’ve made these burritos for burrito sales at church, road trip prep, just because they sound good and they are eaten every weekday morning by hubby. He meal preps them every other Sunday, has enough for 2 weeks with a couple of spares if needed. This is a versatile recipe. I hope you enjoy it as much as my family does!
Happy making!