Breakfast Tostadas

breakfast tostadas
 

I am currently in a breakfast funk. It’s hard to come up with healthy choices when you are used to just throwing some milk and Cheerios in a bowl.   Anyone else out there grow up with cold cereal for the first meal of the day?  I would bet there are a lot of us.  Nothing against Mom–she did the best she could for her kiddos.  I can even remember a time when she was trying to get creative with some healthier options, but we just didn’t cooperate very well, except with the frozen banana with peanut butter and wheat germ.  That is STILL a winner!  Maybe that should be a future post!  Stay tuned.

Anyway, as I was scouring my Pinterest folders for some ideas for my post this week, I found this gem and thought it would be a great recipe to share, plus maybe I will love breakfast again.  Plus, their picture looked so colorful and amazing.  By the way, this dish is so easy to prepare and you can do it with the messiest of counters. I had just gotten back from work and the store, plus as I was putting food away I noticed how nasty the fridge looked.  Took all the stuff off the shelves and out of the drawers and that was also on my counters, and I was able to make my tostada amidst the chaos.  Score!  And after my tostada, I cleaned/reorganized the fridge.

 

Ingredients:

1  16-oz. can of refried beans
6 tostada shells
6 eggs
1/4 cup crumbled Queso Fresco
1 avocado, sliced
cilantro
hot sauce

 
1.  Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F.  Place tostada shells in a single layer on baking sheet.  Bake 6-7 minutes or until crisp.
 
2.  Place re-fried beans in a small saucepan.  Heat over medium heat until warmed through. For those using freeze-dried beans, follow the directions on the package/can.  Mine was super easy and I made only as much as I needed.
 
3.  Cook eggs according to preference–I like slightly under cooked.
 

4.  Assemble the tostadas–put equal amounts of re-fried beans on each tostada and spread evenly.  Top each with queso, a few avocado slices.  Place an egg on each one and season with salt and pepper.  You can also use cilantro and some hot sauce or salsa, if you like.  I used hot sauce because, unfortunately, I did not have any fresh salsa ready.  Serve warm.

 

Source:  Taste and Tell via Pinterest.

Originally posted on September 10, 2015. 
Breakfast Tostadas
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Ingredients
  1. 1 16-oz. can of re-fried beans
  2. 6 tostada shells
  3. 6 eggs
  4. 1/4 cup crumbled queso fresco
  5. 1 avocado, sliced
  6. cilantro
  7. hot sauce
Instructions
  1. Preheat the oven to 325 degrees F. Place tostada shells in a single layer on baking sheet and bake 6-7 minutes or until crisp.
  2. Place re-fried beans in a small saucepan. Heat over medium heat until warmed through. For those using freeze-dried beans, follow the directions on the package/can. Mine was super easy and I made only as much as I needed.
  3. Cook eggs according to preference–I like fried and slightly under cooked.
  4. Assemble the tostadas–put equal amounts of re-fried beans on each tostada and spread evenly. Top each with queso, a few avocado slices. Place an egg on each one and season with salt and pepper. You can also use cilantro and some hot sauce or salsa, if you like. I used hot sauce because, unfortunately, I did not have any fresh salsa ready. Serve warm.
Adapted from Taste and Tell
Adapted from Taste and Tell
Mormon Mavens https://www.mormonmavens.com/
 

Pancakes with Apple Brown Sugar Topping

 

Who doesn’t like pancakes?  And what if you add apples, brown sugar, and butter?  Exactly.  I needed a quick breakfast because I had just finished a phone meeting with my new Power of Moms content editor–training her on how I publish the articles for the site–and I was hungry.  Checked the fridge and saw two leftover pancakes and some cut up apples I had left over from a pie I had made. Hmmm, I thought, those could be good together.  So I grabbed those, along with some butter and brown sugar.

Pancakes with Apple Brown Sugar Topping
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Ingredients
  1. Pancakes (use a recipe of your choice)
  2. Cut up Fuji and Granny Smith apples
  3. Brown Sugar
  4. Butter
Instructions
  1. Melt a tablespoon of butter in a small skillet over medium-high heat.
  2. Add brown sugar and apples and stir to combine.
  3. If using leftover pancakes for a single serving, add the pancakes and heat them up along with the topping.
Notes
  1. There are many plain pancake recipes out there. This should work well with any of them. Check out some of our recipes here on the blog.
Mormon Mavens https://www.mormonmavens.com/