Well I did not get to make Biscuits and Gravy for the boys this morning so I made my fast and easy version of Huevos Rancheros. I just scramble eggs and use canned chili. If I have the time I like to put onions and garlic into the scrambled eggs.

Anyone else have their own version of this tasty breakfast?

Fry a couple of diced up potatoes, leftover steak or brisket or smoked ham, some onion and a anaheim green chili til starting to get crunchy brown. Pour three eggs whipped up with some milk or half & half over this mix. Add some cumin and chili powder & Put a lid on the skillet and let the eggs set up on low. When the eggs are almost set up, pour some Old El Paso green chili enchilada sauce on top of the eggs, lay corn tortillas on top, put the lid back on til you put it on the table. The hot dish will steam and soak the enchilada sauce into the tortilla and soak down through the eggs and potatoes.
I am gonna tell you, this is some dang good stuff and real easy to do on a camp fire in a small dutch oven.

Nothing like reading this before breakfast on a Sunday morning. Mmmm, sounds good!

Quick & easy version?

Soft corn tortilla smeared with refried beans with a couple of over-easy eggs on top and then smothered with Herdez salsa verde. Warm flour tortillas on the side.

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Originally posted by armadillo66:
Fry a couple of diced up potatoes, leftover steak or brisket or smoked ham, some onion and a anaheim green chili til starting to get crunchy brown. Pour three eggs whipped up with some milk or half & half over this mix. Add some cumin and chili powder & Put a lid on the skillet and let the eggs set up on low. When the eggs are almost set up, pour some Old El Paso green chili enchilada sauce on top of the eggs, lay corn tortillas on top, put the lid back on til you put it on the table. The hot dish will steam and soak the enchilada sauce into the tortilla and soak down through the eggs and potatoes.
I am gonna tell you, this is some dang good stuff and real easy to do on a camp fire in a small dutch oven.

I'm not worthy!

Real huevos rancheros demand the use of Mexican chorizo.

Spanish chorizo does not make good HR as it is a hard, dry sausage unlike the runny, crumbly, Mexican imitation.

You guys crack me up. What, no ketchup in your "huevos rancheros"?

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Originally posted by Erich:
You guys crack me up. What, no ketchup in your "huevos rancheros"?

I'm with you, Erich. It ain't real Huevos Rancheros unless the waitress asks you, "Red or green?"

Christmas!

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Christmas!

Dang it, now I'm starting to regret not stopping at Little Anita's on my way through your fair city.

The version I grew up with is really a bastardation but here goes.
This came from the old Camelia Grill in New Orleans and was best consumed while loaded. They had a killer chili omlet that they made with cheese and ham chunks. Put in on the plate with a mound of fries and then a big ladle of their homemade chili on top. But then the serious eater had to embelish. The grill also had bowls of finely chopprd onions to put on your hamburgers. You called for the onions and made sure you were generous with the amounts. Still not finished cause you had you put ketsup on the fries and then tabasco sauce over everything. My Lord it was good-but goodness you felt it around 10 the next morning (unless you had the foresight to either eat some ice cream or puke before going to bed )

I KNOW HoustonRick has had one of these.

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The version I grew up with is really a bastardation but here goes.
This came from the old Camelia Grill in New Orleans and was best consumed while loaded. They had a killer chili omlet that they made with cheese and ham chunks. Put in on the plate with a mound of fries and then a big ladle of their homemade chili on top. But then the serious eater had to embelish. The grill also had bowls of finely chopprd onions to put on your hamburgers. You called for the onions and made sure you were generous with the amounts. Still not finished cause you had you put ketsup on the fries and then tabasco sauce over everything. My Lord it was good-but goodness you felt it around 10 the next morning (unless you had the foresight to either eat some ice cream or puke before going to bed )

I KNOW HoustonRick has had one of these.

CAJUNLAWYER, being the svelte individual I now am, your offering is a no-no for me, but damn it man, that is something that will make me put my displaced 70 pounds back on in a week! STOP!!!

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Huevos Rancheros

Yummmmmmmmm!

One of the many things I miss about living in Tucson.