Best Breakfast Food

[956 Worldwide 35,589]

The answer remains breakfast tacos as the best food.

Refried beans from a pot of charro beans I made this week. Bacon, egg, and cheese filling. Homemade chipotle-serrano salsa.

Do not listen to the schismatics that put whole strips of bacon.  You cook the bacon first, to mostly crispy but still flexible.  Chop it roughly and stir it and any cheese into the egg mixture towards the end of cooking. 

Edited February 24 by 956 Worldwide

[ChickenSandwich 9,947]

 

Edited February 24 by ChickenSandwich

[IDIOTsavant 8,686]

11 hours ago, 956 Worldwide said:

The answer remains breakfast tacos as the best food.

Refried beans from a pot of charro beans I made this week. Bacon, egg, and cheese filling. Homemade chipotle-serrano salsa.

Do not listen to the schismatics that put whole strips of bacon.  You cook the bacon first, to mostly crispy but still flexible.  Chop it roughly and stir it and any cheese into the egg mixture towards the end of cooking. 

All of this was correct until you added the eggs. Bean, cheese, and bacon is the perfect breakfast taco.

[elfenix 34,743]

#teamwholebacon

[Gen. Applewhite 227]

Whole bacon. No cheese. Add some crispy taters. 

[elfenix 34,743]

2 hours ago, Gen. Applewhite said:

Whole bacon. No cheese. Add some crispy taters. 

[Smax 3,800]

13 hours ago, IDIOTsavant said:

All of this was correct until you added the eggs. Bean, cheese, and bacon is the perfect breakfast taco.

naaa egg chorizo potato and cheese

[956 Worldwide 35,589]

I celebrate all forms of the breakfast taco. Barbacoa may be the platonic ideal.  
 

But yesterday was bacon and egg and while you can ADD a strip of bacon, the base has to be mixed pieces of bacon with the scrambled egg.  My man ArnieTex breaks is down.

This is Arnie.  If this man tells you how a taco is to be made, he is correct. 
 

[ChickenSandwich 9,947]

Arnie is wrong and he should feel bad. 
 

When using the cheapest or crappy bacon, yes, you dice it up into the eggs. Hide it if you will. 
 

When you have good thick cut bacon you don’t need tricks. That’s something whores do for money. 
 

[SurlyORama 165]

Team chopped up bacon here.

[Deej 77,803]

I've really gotten into having noodles for breakfast. Some homemade ramen hits the spot in the mornings. 

[Texzilla588 772]

Arnie is wrong and he should feel bad. 
 
When using the cheapest or crappy bacon, yes, you dice it up into the eggs. Hide it if you will. 
 
When you have good thick cut bacon you don’t need tricks. That’s something whores do for money. 
 

Those with great sharp teeth can enjoy a strip or two of thick cut bacon. There is a third way for bacon: one inch lengths or so. That way I don’t drag a length of bacon to drag all the way out along with half the taco innards into my shirt and all over my car.

Also team no egg. Beans, bacon, cheese, crispy fried taters.

[Deej 77,803]

Team no cheese.

[ztejas 44,223]

3 minutes ago, Deej said:

Team no cheese.

No cheese has been growing on me. The place has to make a good taco, though. If the tortilla or eggs are subpar then cheese generally improves it. 

Potato and egg or a Carne guisada and egg with some good salsa...

And Arnie is right. The chopped bacon is almost always better.

[Deej 77,803]

I just find the cheese overwhelms the other ingredients a lot of the time. 

[Mo Horn 8,937]

The only time I get cheese on breakfast tacos is on bean and cheese ones

[Brisketexan 106,874]

For the bacon version, I prefer thick cut bacon, cut into chunks, mixed in with the eggs.  But at home, my wife likes her bacon truly crispy, so I do the whole slice thing.  And I do the full BEC suite of ingredients.

For chorizo, cook the chorizo, keeping most of the grease, add the eggs to cook, then top with cheese and a good red salsa.  That was the taco I grew up on -- I'd get up for school, and mom would ask "what kind?", which meant what kind of taco did I want.  If we had chorizo, it was always that one.

Sausage egg and cheese -- same plan as for chorizo.  Crumble sausage, cook, add eggs to hot pan with grease.

Potato egg and cheese - lots of variability on the potato.  I don't like it when they're too soggy/almost mashed.  Give me crispy potatoes -- cubed are fine. I've used leftover french fries that I crisp up in the pan.  Tots work too.  The best variation I had was by an old army cook with a dive joint out by the airport.  He'd cook a huge amount of shredded hashbrown potatoes on the flattop in butter till they were crisped, would slide those onto a big flour tortilla topped with two scrambled eggs, and a coupla slices of melty American cheese.  Add a dash of salt and salsa, and it was glorious.  A big-ass meal for $1.25 back in the day.

Bean and cheese - always a good combo.  Adding bacon never hurts.

The best gringo breakfast taco is the Otto at Taco Deli: bacon, beans, cheese, avocado?  Yes please.

And the forgotten prize is machacado.  Cook shredded machacado and onions in oil (you can add diced peppers if you want), when the onion is cooked through, add your eggs, make your taco.  It's glorious.  Sometimes I add cheese, sometimes I don't, I always use a good fresh salsa.

These are the breakfast tacos.  They are what Jesus (pronounced in spanish) gave us.  We should be thankful for our blessings.

[Brew 3,049]

You know what is really great for breakfast? Breakfast tacos of course. You know what you should put on your breakfast tacos? The right answer is whatever the hell you want for breakfast on your taco or whatever is being served. 

I’ll take 2 (well, maybe 3) of whatever is available. I don’t care what variety they are because they are all good. I do prefer eggs just for the breakfasty aspect of it, but again give me what you have.

[Brisketexan 106,874]

1 hour ago, Brew said:

You know what is really great for breakfast? Breakfast tacos of course. You know what you should put on your breakfast tacos? The right answer is whatever the hell you want for breakfast on your taco or whatever is being served. 

I’ll take 2 (well, maybe 3) of whatever is available. I don’t care what variety they are because they are all good. I do prefer eggs just for the breakfasty aspect of it, but again give me what you have.

Hell, that's a variation of my old man's rant about breakfast tacos.  "There's no such thing as a breakfast taco.  They're all just tacos.  Some of em you eat at breakfast more often than you eat em at other times, but they're all just tacos."

But I actually DO have a rule about tacos.  It's a real taco if 1) you put some mexican-ass shit on there (carnitas, picadillo, chorizo and egg, what have you), OR 2) you put some poor-ass struggle food/leftovers on them.  Example of what is and is not category 2): a leftover chicken tender and some bbq sauce on a tortilla?  Taco.  A purposefully designed concoction with a chicken tender, microgreens, a cranberry glaze, and aioli?  Gringo taco.

[elfenix 34,743]

58 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

  A purposefully designed concoction with a chicken tender, microgreens, a cranberry glaze, and aioli?  Gringo taco.

Attn: velvet taco

[956 Worldwide 35,589]

5 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

For the bacon version, I prefer thick cut bacon, cut into chunks, mixed in with the eggs.  But at home, my wife likes her bacon truly crispy, so I do the whole slice thing.  And I do the full BEC suite of ingredients.

For chorizo, cook the chorizo, keeping most of the grease, add the eggs to cook, then top with cheese and a good red salsa.  That was the taco I grew up on -- I'd get up for school, and mom would ask "what kind?", which meant what kind of taco did I want.  If we had chorizo, it was always that one.

Sausage egg and cheese -- same plan as for chorizo.  Crumble sausage, cook, add eggs to hot pan with grease.

Potato egg and cheese - lots of variability on the potato.  I don't like it when they're too soggy/almost mashed.  Give me crispy potatoes -- cubed are fine. I've used leftover french fries that I crisp up in the pan.  Tots work too.  The best variation I had was by an old army cook with a dive joint out by the airport.  He'd cook a huge amount of shredded hashbrown potatoes on the flattop in butter till they were crisped, would slide those onto a big flour tortilla topped with two scrambled eggs, and a coupla slices of melty American cheese.  Add a dash of salt and salsa, and it was glorious.  A big-ass meal for $1.25 back in the day.

Bean and cheese - always a good combo.  Adding bacon never hurts.

The best gringo breakfast taco is the Otto at Taco Deli: bacon, beans, cheese, avocado?  Yes please.

And the forgotten prize is machacado.  Cook shredded machacado and onions in oil (you can add diced peppers if you want), when the onion is cooked through, add your eggs, make your taco.  It's glorious.  Sometimes I add cheese, sometimes I don't, I always use a good fresh salsa.

These are the breakfast tacos.  They are what Jesus (pronounced in spanish) gave us.  We should be thankful for our blessings.

Back when I was in junior high in the valley swim practice was at 6 AM.  The bus would dump you at the junior high in the middle of 1st period after practice and we’d go sit in the cafeteria until the bell rang for the next class. 

The lunch ladies, who had finished serving school breakfast, always showed us mercy and we got tacos.  Bacon and egg, chorizo and egg, potato and egg, bean and egg were in the rotation. No charge, we were hungry and so we got a taco.

I will likely spend the rest of my life trying to find something that tastes that good. 

Edited February 28 by 956 Worldwide

[Anastasis 23,716]

Made a big ass pot of lentils, onions, and rice and we have just a "bit" of leftovers. Savory, so thought it might fry up nice as a pancake. 

Fried mujadra pancake with runny eggs. Put a little green salsa on top of the lentil cake before the egg went on. 

 

[Armybrat 41,385]

On 2/25/2024 at 11:28 AM, ChickenSandwich said:

Arnie is wrong and he should feel bad. 
 

When using the cheapest or crappy bacon, yes, you dice it up into the eggs. Hide it if you will. 
 

When you have good thick cut bacon you don’t need tricks. That’s something whores do for money. 
 

Crispy thick cut Applewood smoked bacon slices work for me.

[Anastasis 23,716]

4 hours ago, Armybrat said:

Crispy thick cut Applewood smoked bacon slices work for me.

Yeah. But how many cardiologists do you have?

[Armybrat 41,385]

7 hours ago, Anastasis said:

Yeah. But how many cardiologists do you have?

Four.

And they all drive nice cars.

[SurlyGator 959]

1 hour ago, Armybrat said:

Four.

And they all drive nice cars.

Worth it for thick cut Applewood smoked bacon.

[Anastasis 23,716]

Leftover spanakopita fried up on the griddle and topped with egg and Melinda’s green sauce. 
 

 

 

[South Austin 53,220]

You’re on fire lately, Ana.

[Frank The Tank 1,503]

 

[Brisketexan 106,874]

We were near Canyon Lake for the weekend, stopped at El Gallo in NB for breakfast. Holy shit. Big fluffy homemade tortillas. Chilaquiles, al pastor, and migas. 1/2 a taco is a damned meal - truly, we could have split that taco and been happy. And the chilaquiles and migas were only $3.60 each. The Al pastor was $5. Salsa was outstanding. Highly recommend. Folks in NB knew what was up, had a great crowd and busy drive thru.

[deadshank 24,654]

I’m in spiritual winter as my SE Houston go to, being the original Frank’s Grill, is now GOOB.  

 

[PilotsError 2,336]

The best breakfast food was the Shoneys buffet. Eggs, hash brown, sausage piled up with that awesome liquid cheese drizzled over everything. 

Couldn't beat it.

[Texzilla588 772]

I don’t have the same fond memories of the Shoneys buffet.

[T’Boo Ted Marshall 2,779]

I do. Loved stopping in there on road trips.

[Underdog 29,161]

Hit up the Stoney’s up north off I35 near 290 back in the day, a very solid breakfast buffet.  El Torito off 290 had a helluva brunch buffet always took out of town family there. 

[conVINCEd 21,477]

Grandy’s breakfast buffet slapped back in the day.  If you had a bunch of teenagers at a basketball tournament and they were going to be playing 3 games that day, it was an excellent way to pump some calories into them.  On a side note. I came across a Grandy’s that is still open last month while I was driving through a part of town I don’t go through very often when I had to renew my drivers license.  Curiosity got the best of me, and there are 20 or so of them still around across 5 states.

[Pdawg88 1,157]

46 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

Grandy’s breakfast buffet slapped back in the day.  If you had a bunch of teenagers at a basketball tournament and they were going to be playing 3 games that day, it was an excellent way to pump some calories into them.  On a side note. I came across a Grandy’s that is still open last month while I was driving through a part of town I don’t go through very often when I had to renew my drivers license.  Curiosity got the best of me, and there are 20 or so of them still around across 5 states.

Yeah I think there are still 3 of them here in the OKC area. 

[Mother mopar 3,383]

Grandy’s breakfast buffet slapped back in the day.  If you had a bunch of teenagers at a basketball tournament and they were going to be playing 3 games that day, it was an excellent way to pump some calories into them.  On a side note. I came across a Grandy’s that is still open last month while I was driving through a part of town I don’t go through very often when I had to renew my drivers license.  Curiosity got the best of me, and there are 20 or so of them still around across 5 states.

There's one in Brunswick,GA, not too far from the paper mill. Mill boys were packing the plates when I was down there for a job last year.

[Macanudo 13,314]

2 hours ago, conVINCEd said:

Grandy’s breakfast buffet slapped back in the day.  If you had a bunch of teenagers at a basketball tournament and they were going to be playing 3 games that day, it was an excellent way to pump some calories into them.  On a side note. I came across a Grandy’s that is still open last month while I was driving through a part of town I don’t go through very often when I had to renew my drivers license.  Curiosity got the best of me, and there are 20 or so of them still around across 5 states.

The Grandy's where I grew up hated us.   We'd roll up and eat everything.  

[conVINCEd 21,477]

1 hour ago, Macanudo said:

The Grandy's where I grew up hated us.   We'd roll up and eat everything.  

Yeah, as teenagers we would do some serious damage. One of the last ones standing was along my commute 7 or 8 years ago.  I would grab it to go on my way home every now and then.  Something nostalgic about the school cafeteria style CFS.

[gsoda3 3,362]

i had a small bowl of ribeye pho one day last week for breakfast.  might have a new leader in the clubhouse.

[Underdog 29,161]

Will be doing breakfast for dinner sometime this week. 

[Anastasis 23,716]

A few to share. Both based on leftovers. 

spinach omelette with crawfish and crab cream sauce. 

shiitake brown rice pancake situation with a soft yolk. 

 

Edited July 24 by Anastasis

[Paco 1,960]

Will be doing breakfast for dinner sometime this week. 

Ok cool.

[UncleBuck 6,455]

My mood can change. Right now my favorite breakfast is a two taco plate with a bacon egg and cheese taco, then a papas ranchera with bean a bacon taco. Might swap the latter out with a carne asada taco with onion, cilantro, a diced up chile toreado. and a little lime. 

(also, prefer my bacon in pieces, mixed in with the egg. Like 'Zilla said up there a ways, I don't like when I don't get all of the way through a full slice of bacon and pull a length of it out).

[South Austin 53,220]

On 5/6/2024 at 11:06 AM, Underdog said:

Will be doing breakfast for dinner sometime this week. 

End thread.

[Texas St. Armadillos 1,388]

Breakfast Taco:  Potato and Egg with an initial smear of refried beans.  No cheese.  No meat (will make an exception for barbacoa).  Accompanied by some hotter than hell abuela sauce (green or red).

[locodos 5,590]

Bacon, eggs, and Rumpledthumps (I use collard greens instead of cabbage)

 

[Deej 77,803]

Chicken fried steak

 

[SurlyGator 959]

I'd eat that.  Donde?  Looks Waffle House-y.