Breakfast with Eggs Poached in Heirloom Tomatoes
The more I read about breakfast cereal, the more I question its value as a breakfast food. Processed grains with sugar floating in milk. I have the habit but like...
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Scrambled Eggs in Tomato Sauce
I used to make this a lot when I first had chickens and for no reason it's fallen out of favor. 1-2-3 and it's done. The tomato sauce is 14...
A Good Spread with Mexican Oregano
This weekend I made an omelet filled with this simple goat cheese filling. Roasted pine nuts, Mexican oregano and goat cheese. Ta-da! It was great.
Masa Fantasies: Oaxacan-inspired Corn Love
Hoja santa (or sometimes Yierba Santa) (Piper auritum) is a delicious leaf used throughout much of Mexico for flavor and as a wrapping. I've had very little luck growing it...
Chilaquiles with Sangre de Toro Beans
I was a guest at an excellent traditional Thanksgiving dinner so the rest of the weekend I got to play around in my own kitchen making whatever came into my...
Amaranth for Breakfast.
Ancient grain diva Maria Speck has an interesting article in the December Cooking Light using grains and her recipe for Amaranth Pudding with Amaretto Cream caught my eye. I made...
Poached Eggs on Black Beans
Simple perfection. It lacks nothing, not even bacon or hot sauce. Two poached eggs (from my henhouse this morning) over Midnight beans. As they break, they create a sauce that...
Scrambled Eggs with Some Refried Beans
Sometimes I think this blog should be called Cooking with Beans and Eggs. Having six chickens, I tend to eat a lot of eggs and owning Rancho Gordo, beans are...
Lazy Breakfast at Rancho Gordo
I posted this photo on our Facebook page and it got a huge response so I think I'll add it here as well. This was making breakfast on Sunday morning...
More Eggs and Beans
I've recently moved and the new place has a hen house. I've missed having fresh eggs but now that's all behind me. I'm hoping I can stick to the six...
Eggs over Beans and Nopales for Breakfast
Leftover beans tossed with some freshly made nopales meet fried eggs straight from the henhouse. I think I like breakfast best, sometimes.
Quelites (or Lamb's Quarters)
Here in Napa we have a Sunday flea market. I've passed it many times but this last weekend I decided to actually go and it's a wild market. It's about...