Sometimes simple, quick breakfasts are necessary, but that doesn’t mean they have to be boring. We often make breakfast burritos using various leftovers — toss in some scrambled eggs and shredded cheese and goodness awaits!
Simple breakfast burrito using leftovers & a few fresh ingredients.
We had tacos a couple of nights ago — basic taco-seasoned ground pork — and we also had some leftover rice pilaf. Warmed both of those in the microwave while scrambling the eggs. We filled low-carb tortillas with our meat & rice, added the scrambled eggs, sliced black olives, a little diced onion & red bell pepper, a dollop of sour cream and some shredded Chihuahua cheese and our simple, tasty, taco-inspired breakfast burritos were all set.
Though this weekend’s filling was pretty basic compared with some others we’ve made, truly anything goes! What are some of your favorite breakfast burrito fillings?
The lovely flowers our daughter found in our yard this week.
We’ve started our annual spring clean-up in our yard — since I was home this last year, we’re ahead of the game a bit since we accomplished more during our autumn clean-up than other years. What a huge difference — it’s making things a lot easier so far.
Our backyard has a few ridiculously large silver maples & ours drop their leaves very late in the year. We’re usually losing leaves from mid-November to early-December and end up missing the last run of our neighborhood’s seasonal yard waste pick-up. (Plus, brrrrr….it’s cold raking leaves that time of year)! This last year we divided and transplanted a lot of our different varieties of hostas & several other plants. We used the late-season leaves as mulch in our larger beds to help our divided plants as they over-wintered in their new locations in our yard. So far it looks like everything survived and the broken down leaves will be great for our compost pile.
I was pleasantly surprised that a lot of our cocoa mulch that we used up toward our patio survived — we love using cocoa mulch. It’s pretty, it smells great and it really seems to work well to keep our weeds under control. Plus it’s nice that it’s a project I can tackle myself since the bags are a lot lighter than traditional bark mulch. We will need to buy more this year to top things off, but we won’t need as much as last year.
We had a few nice days this last week & our daughter has been really excited to check the yard each day to see which plants are emerging. Several of our perennials are starting to show signs of life and the early-season bulbs she helped us plant last fall are starting to sprout. We’ll update our progress as the gardening year unfolds, but for now, here are the first signs of spring we’ve seen in our yard. 🙂
Cornelian Cherry Dogwood – Cornus masA new bulb we planted this last year. The first flowers that bloomed are dainty & lovely.Our daughter found daffodils & crocuses in our yard & also snipped off a section of our Pachysandra ground cover that is blooming. Such a pretty combination for our windowsill.
Simple, pretty stickers dress up dyed eggs in a snap!
We colored some eggs last night using a kit we bought for $5 at Target. It came with different decorative stickers & tapes as well as the 6 different colored tablets for egg-dyeing fun. Kept our 7-year-old entertained for the evening & she did a wonderful job with her designs! She was so proud of herself & I liked how easy it was for her to make what she called “professional-looking” eggs just by adding some seasonal stickers.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate & Happy Spring to those who don’t. Hope you all have a wonderful day!
Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day, how about making some Irish Cream Frosted Cupcakes for a treat?
Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with a tasty frosting spiked with Irish Cream.
A simple butter cake (cheater method using a box cake, but tweaked a bit) with homemade buttercream frosting, spiked with a bit o’ Irish Cream! Subtly delicious and would be just as tasty on a chocolate cupcake as well. I made half of the cupcakes with the basic batter and threw a handful of chocolate chips in the batter for the second half.
Time for a pint of Guinness before hunting for that lucky four-leaf clover!
