Poor Man's Breakfast

[antsinmypants]

Have you ever tried making Tortilla de Patata?

It's a Spanish dish usually served as lunch, dinner or "tapas" (small snack sized meals) - you dice potatoes and then fry them, same with onion and garlic (I have to make mine without the last two due to how my gut reacts to them) and once you have sufficiently drained the veggies, you use 3 eggs per cup (or so - add a little more if the ratio is off) and cook on each side.
To flip it efficiently, make sure that it has cooked well on the side it is on, and carefully slide it with a spatula from the pan onto a plate and 'flip' it back into the pan for more cooking.

You shouldn't have to add more than a Tbs of oil into the pan for an entire tortilla to cook.

It makes a large omlette that you can eat with ketchup, and is often served in the part of Spain we lived with sliced tomatoes that have been salted well.

I love it, and my DH has come to like it also... it comes in real handy when you haven't much in the pantry and have eggs and potatoes ;)

[rjkesmom]

Now, I'm okay with regular lunchmeat bologna, but not ring bologna. I have no idea why, but the sight of someone eating it just makes me want to gag!
I am the same way. I can't stand the red ring bologna - even the smell. You could run me out of the house with it!!! :fear

[AnnaC]

does it frighten him?


lol

Yeah, he's scared of all that processed junk, bologna, hot dogs, etc. :)

[icebear]

aww.... maybe he's just as well to be scared.

i love that stuff... sausages, kielbasa, pepperoni, bratwurst, hot dogs, i don't like blood sausage tho... or that stuff made with tripe

[Janh7]

That sounds so yummy! Mmmmmm. :thumb

[Live4Jesus]

my dad used to make this for himself all the time when I was growing up. My mom refused to serve it because she hated the taste and smell of fried bologna. I'm not much of a fan either. I use left over beef, pork or chicken.

[mustardseed]

Better than donuts, and a whole lot cheaper, is a recipe my grandmother invented during the Depression with two bottomless-pit hungry teenage boys. My kids love it, but I only make it on Christmas. Now they drag their spouses over for it.

Special breakfast: Make some pancake batter. Homemade with flour and baking powder even makes this cheaper. Put it in a largish bowl.

Mix sugar and cinnamon in a pie pan. Set aside and heat about 1/2 inch of vegetable oil in a large frying pan.

Cut bread slices (the least expensive white bread works best) in two triangular pieces. Put them in the batter and coat them one by one, putting into the pan to fry. Turn when golden brown, cook to golden brown on the other side.

Remove from pan and coat on both sides with cinnamon/sugar mixture. Serve hot. You can pile these up in a warm oven and serve, but they're really best just served right away.

[Live4Jesus]

that sounds great!

[Newborn]

I guess y'all haven't seen the "Mystery Meat" thread in Anything Goes.

[gentlefriend]

Here is a great cheap breakfast recipee
Dad's Crepes

Egg
flour
milk

beat together. make sure the batter is more on the liquid side.

Take 1/3 cup of batter, put in buttered skittle. Move batter around so it is thin.
Cook till batter sets, flip.

Take out & put on plate
Put butter and sugar on the crepe and roll.

Kids will love it. Every now and then I crave it for breakfast still.