The breakfast burrito is the the perfect palate for leftovers. I often find that I can creatively use things that I wouldn’t normally do because it is fun. Frequently it is the case that when we have significant quantity of leftovers that I am looking for ways to re-imagine them. But breakfast is a place to use that tiny bit.

I will give some examples. My wife is a big fan of what we call church tacos. When we talk Taco Tuesday, this is what we are talking about. They are what you might recognize as the classic, Taco Bell style ground beef taco. I am abhorred by the fast food version but we use our own beef and corn tortilla, lettuce, tomato, cheese, sour cream and salsa. The reason we call them church tacos is because the local catholic church sells tacos like this out of their food cart at celebrations.

This is a lot of background to explain that we usually have two or three tacos worth of meat leftover. It is not enough to do much with but I like to mix with scrambled eggs to put in my breakfast burrito. Another thing that I like to do is make a hash with that leftover end of roast beef and potatoes, onions and peppers. It is not just meat, but those small quantities of green (red/yellow/orange) peppers as well. If you have leftover fajita fixings scramble well with eggs as well.

During New Year’s Eve, we mad a ton of snacks for a very few people. One of the things that was brought over was a pile of jalapeno poppers. So, when you have 20 of them for four people along with a charcuterie and dip and other things, you end up with a lot leftovers. What to do with them? Put them in breakfast burritos.

I simply cut a whole one in half lengthwise and added it to my eggs and potatoes and instant breakfast burrito. I find that this is a good place to add the one leftover hotdog or sausage. I have also used those take-home box French fries as well. We also often have a small amount of beans as well. I love beans in my breakfast, burritos included.

One more tip. After the burrito is wrapped, I think that it benefits from putting on the griddle whole. This gives a chance for the cheese to melt and it also reduces some of the excessive moisture that the tortilla contains and also tends to keep the whole thing together while you are eating it.

I have not taken the time to master the flour tortilla. This is something that I probably won’t ever do because we just don’t eat many of them. And when you want to make a breakfast burrito, it is not something that you want to add another couple of hours making tortillas. However, I will say that the homemade tortillas doubles the quality result.

There are some different strategies that I use with leftover corn tortillas and salsa, but that is a topic for a different day. If you don’t like tortillas then all of these things can be made without the tortilla and then I call them a scramble. Sometimes I do it that way, particularly when the vegetable quantities are higher that I want to use or when I replace white potatoes with sweet potatoes.

End Your Programming Routine: What I am trying to get across today is that you can have small amounts of things that you can mix together and get some magical results. This not only keeps you inventory tidy but keeps things that would normally be passed over because there is just not enough to do anything with from hanging around until they get pitched. I have my preferential palate, but I am sure that there are other combinations of things that would be just as good, I just haven’t tried them yet.