Go-to breakfast wrap!

Alright, well I kind of decided it was ABOUT time that I started blogging about food because yes, that was the original intention. So onto food. The thing that I most love about reading other people's blogs are the personal anectdotes that they tell on them. So here goes...

As a kid, I was never too much of a breakfast fan. In seventh grade (I believe) I think I skipped breakfast entirely. Most of the time, breakfast consisted of pop tarts or little bites... I've now realized that this a complete mistake and really? Little bites and pop tarts? As much as I like that kind of stuff, sometimes that's just too much sugar for me that early in the morning and completely dismisses the point of breakfast. Isn't breakfast supposed to be about giving your start of the day a boost with long lasting energy?

I was also quite a picky kid and wasn't even quite sure I liked eggs until I hit high school. Yeah... I know, weird but now I love them. I guess that was nature's giant neon sign screaming: You need more protein! I'm not a huge meat person and actually on eat chicken. I guess you could call this a "white meat vegetarian" or a "polotarian" and what not but I'll just be honest, I DO eat chicken. Chicken is meat. Meat does not equal vegetarian!

But that's besides the point. There's this lovely little farmers' market in downtown Sarasota, Florida that my family and I always visit when we're visiting the extended family. We walk around, look at the art, enjoy the live music, and usually end up getting breakfast. I think one of my favorite parts about it is the fresh pasta stand. Nothing beats the smell of fresh pasta. We usually end up getting a breakfast wrap from this one stand. The ones I usually get consist of scrambled eggs, cheese, potato, and onion. When I first had it, my mom said to me, "Wow these are great! Perhaps we could recreate them because you need more protein in your diet". Haha, okay, thanks, Mom. And of course, two years later, I finally decided to. I kind of went ahead and made up the recipe as I went when I was too lazy to go through with an entire Spanish Omelete. Yes, I was being lazy but let me just say that the laziness ended up working out for me in the end.

And just as a side note, it makes your house smell delicious. It just smells like... breakfast. The smell of the potatoes and onions together is really nice :)

Ingredients:

6 small potatoes - you can use as many as you want but this usually makes a good amount
3/4 an onion - once again, you can use more to accomdate the potatoes
Any kind of shredded cheese, I use cheddar
Flour tortilla wraps
3 eggs
2 Tbsp Olive Oil
Milk

1. Wash potatoes and then peel. Most of the time I don't peel the skin off though, but that means you just have to wash them well! Cut up into slices, and then cut the slices into cubes. The slices do not have to be super thin but can be whatever width you want them to be. It's really up to you!

2. Heat the olive oil on in a skillet or saute pan and then cut up the onion in small pieces. I like to leave them in little slivers.

3. Once the olive oil is heated, add the potatoes and let them brown before adding the onions. You'll know when the onions are done heating because they'll start to get translucent. Make sure that you stir the onion potato mix and evenly heat everything. Feel free to add whatever else you'd like, like peppers or zucchini, this is just what I like to use.

4. Crack the three eggs into a bowl and whisk until blended. You may add a pinch of salt for flavor. Add some milk, as if you were making scrambled eggs -- just enough for the eggs to turn a pale yelllow color instead of the bright color of the egg yolks. Now here's the part that is up to you. What I ended up doing was adding the egg mix into the skillet with the potato and onion and ended up treating it like scramble. That's one option. The other option is to scramble it separately and then just add them into the tortilla wrap. That's up to you but I do suggest option 1 and treating it as a scramble.

5. Once the scrambled eggs/onion/potato mix is done (the eggs are fully done), lay out a flour tortilla and add the egg mixture in the middle of the tortilla wrap. Fold the bottom half in, and then the sides in and on top of the bottom tail end, creating a wrap that is open at the top. Voila! There's my go to breakfast recipe :). Horray for breakfast wraps!

- J