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I’m endlessly fascinated by the recipe variations people make in their kitchens.
Maybe it’s because when I was a kid, my mom let me and my friend Keith experiment with a blender to make our own milkshakes. We used milk and ice cream, of course. Then we’d throw in chocolate syrup, peanut butter, raw eggs, you name it. It tasted like ca-ca, but to us, it was frozen nectar of the gods.
That’s what happens in some people’s kitchens. They tweak recipes and try new things. Sometimes it’s treasure. Sometimes it’s trash. Most times it’s trash that tastes like treasure to them.
So when my friend and former colleague Mike Taylor, who also invented and sells a great office device called the Cubescope shared some pictures of a recent breakfast he made, I felt the need to pass along his wisdom.
Mike writes:
Facing a big day of yard work Sunday, I needed a breakfast that would stick to the ribs. Introducing:
THE TOWER OF POWER BREAKFAST
Ingredients:
½ package Ore-Ida frozen hash browns
3 eggs
½ onion
2 ½ cups homemade chili con turkey carne
1 ½ cups Original Frito’s Corn Chips
DIRECTIONS
Foundation:
Begin cooking hash browns according to directions on package. (Medium-high heat). Top with finely chopped onion. When skillet-side is browned, flip potatoes. (To facilitate flipping, cut circle of hash browns into quarters with edge of spatula and flip each fourth separately using a large spatula.)
Nudge hash-brown quarters back into place to form unified circle. Using edge of spatula again, gently tamp potatoes starting in the center and moving outward to create a small depression in potato mass.
Crack three eggs and let them settle into potato depression. Cover and reduce heat to medium-low. Cook for 5 minutes.
When egg whites begin to go from clear to solid white, add 1/16 cup of water directly to skillet metal (not onto food) and cover. Allow to steam-cook until yolks are done according to individual preference, usually when watery giggliness is eliminated but the yolks are not yet cooked to a solid state.
Main floor:
Reduce heat to low. Top potato foundation with homemade chili con turkey carne and cover for 4½ minutes.
Penthouse level:
Top with Fritos Original Corn Chips.
Enjoy with your favorite low-calorie sports drink.
Or, what the hell, you’ve come this far … a big glass of eggnog.
Serves: 1
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Posted by Mike Taylor, Denver, Colo. on 03/28 at 06:06 PM
To pre-empt inevitable questioning of Frito’s as a legitimate foodstuff, I should mention that a former colleague of mine and Jeff’s has pointed out that Frito’s are, in fact, the most natural of processed snackfoods. They contain only three ingredients: oil, corn and salt. So as you sprinkle on your “penthouse” layer of Frito’s to complete the Tower of Power, you can do so guilt-free.