INGREDIENTS: 2 EGGS for every guest
A sauce made of canned or fresh TOMATO,
JALAPENO for heat, with
CILANTRO and onions and if you can find it, in LATE SPRING in markets, PURSLANE.
MAKE A BIG BOWL OF YOUR RED SAUCE AND HERBS FIRST. I often make this bowl a day ahead, cover it, store in fridge so that every time I have a quesadilla, I have some fresh sauce for it. IN your case, it makes your breakfast work real fast!
All you do to make your BOWL of red sauce is heat up some good OIL in a thick skillet, toss in some onions, garlic, a minced jalapeno, (take out seeds and ribs,) then when it's sauteed for a minute, throw the tomatoes or CAN OF TOMATO SAUCE on top, cook down for a few minutes.
I CREATE this red sauce around a bowl of pre-cooked simmered PURSLANE greens. STUDY THE PURLSLANE FILE. You'll see what I mean. It's like a noodle with leaves, and cooks up soft, isn't really noticeable in sauce. BERDOLAGAS the Mex call it.
Read that file for just a second as MAKING a bowl of PURSLANE in this red 'hot' sauce is the way to really make HUEVOS RANCHEROS an important dish.
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It's morning. STUMBLE out into kitchen, heat a skillet with oil. A
BIG SKILLET if more than two eaters!
THERE is where you fry the eggs. WHILE EGGS are frying, simultaneously,
heat two tortillas for everyone at the table, over the gas flame
while
you fry two eggs for every person at the table. NOW OPTION ONE: throw the
SAUCE on top of the eggs in the skillet! THAT HEATS THE RED SAUCE UP. OR
you can heat the red hot sauce separately, just get it warm again if it
was fridged, Lay the two eggs on a VERY hot FLAME HEATED CORN tortilla
ON THE PLATE, cover them with the herbs in the hot sauce.
Serve with black coffee, more corn tortillas for dipping. POSSIBLE ADDITION: Shake parmesan on top. Cilantro leaves, fresh on top.
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PERFECT BEVERAGE: I buy cheap juices with coupons, so JUICY JUICE can end up costing 99c for 64 oz. I then juice this windfall of citrus we have out here, grapefruits lemons and oranges falling on the ground everywhere. I juice a quart of the real deal and serve the two mixed. The real and the fake. THEN when 64 oz bottle is half full, I mix a quart of REAL JUICE with what's left in the CHEAP, FAKE JUICE BOTTLE and store it in the fridge for next meal. The corn syrup krap drink 'fruitade' becomes vigorous and real with the FRESH SQUEEZED CITRUS. Neither are drinkable without the other. My grapefruit and lemons are sour...even though I only pick the ones on the ground which fell off due to ripeness. Tree owners tell me I can pick the stuff on tree, but I don't. You can't tell ripe from unripe eyeballing CITRUS.