Scrambled Eggs with Cheddar, Avocado and Sauteed Onions

I wanted to make something for my kids this morning for breakfast, other than cold cereal.

I had not been feeling so hot the last few days... Ok, I'm gonna take that one back, it's been since Wednesday of last week that I fixed them a nice hot yummy meal. I woke up Wednesday with a really bad head-ache, which was basically a migraine, then by Thursday, I was toast. To top things off, my hubs was gone, so, that never helps things! My oldest daughter loves to help in the kitchen, and her way of helping is getting some cereal out and getting the milk for all the kids. Don't get me wrong, it's GREAT! And I soooooo appreciated her help! But I knew it was time to make something for them. I am still so very tired, but this is pretty easy to make!

I was also itching to use my fresh farm eggs that I got Saturday at the Farmer's Market. PERFECT opportunity to use them! Well, half of them anyways! ;)

Let me just say one thing. Farm fresh eggs are THE best! And I am not joking on that one! They are soooo much bigger, fresher (well duh!), yellower, they are just way better!



One avocado mashed and ready (I am going to apologize for the pics, they are dark... I was in a hurry to get this up, so I didn't take the time to go through all of them and lighten them up! ;))


My lil man helping to break an egg!


My oldest really concentrating on her egg breaking! ;)


Saute some onions in some coconut oil


Here are my yummy farm fresh eggs!!!


I whisked the eggs, then added the cheese


Pour your eggs and cheese right over the onions


Cook and stir so they will be scrambled! yummy!


Turn off heat, add your mashed avocado


And viola! Yummy!!!



Scrambled Eggs with Cheddar, Avocado and Sauteed Onions

1 avocado
1 small onion, chopped
6 eggs
1/2 - 3/4 cup shredded cheddar cheese

Take your avocado and mash up in a small bowl, set aside.
Place a little bit of coconut oil in a skillet big enough to hold your eggs. Saute the onions until tender. While onion is cooking, break eggs in bowl and whisk. Add your cheese and stir. (You can add some salt and pepper here if you would like).
Add your eggs to the skillet and cook until desired tenderness. Keep stirring to get the scrambled eggs! ;)
Turn off heat and add mashed up avocado. Stir to combine and serve hot!

*You could also dice your avocado and stir it in gently to your cooked eggs.
Add a splash of hot sauce, or red pepper flakes if you want it a bit more spicy. Or you could add a hot cheese instead of a cheddar cheese.

Hay Stacks

Yeah, we eat Hay for dinner out here!!!! If we still lived in Iowa, you might actually believe that, but we don't live there anymore, so... ;)

This must be a Indiana meal, because I've had a TON of peeps from Iowa and Maryland ask me, "what int he world is Hay Stacks?"!!!

It's basically anything you want it to be. You have a base of rice, then meat, then the toppings are endless!

I use jasmine rice, then a sloppy joe type of meat mixture, then had lettuce, all colors of peppers, green and black olives, onions, shredded cheddar cheese, tomato, and crushed up Doritos. But again, you can add or take away anything! You could used salsa, or you could use melted cheese sauce instead of the shredded cheddar cheese. You could use more of a taco meat instead of the sloppy joe meat. I've also thought about making guac to put on top as well, and omit the tomatoes....

I used my sloppy joe recipe for the meat base. (you can find that sloppy joe recipe here http://mandysboxofrecipes.blogspot.com/2010/01/sloppy-joes.html)

While the sloppy joes are cooking, you can start chopping up whatever toppings you would like to add. Most of these things you have one hand, so it doesn't require any special ingredients. And the cool thing about this is if you don't have one of them, it's ok, it's not gonna matter! It's kind of a whatever you have on hand recipe! ;)

I don't think I mentioned this in the sloppy joe recipe, but you don't have to put it in the crock pot, you can keep it in the skillet on the stove for about 30 minutes. And if it don't want to wait that long, then that's fine, just make sure it's heated through! :)

here's my sloppy joe version, I added a bit of bbq sauce to it as well... You want this to be a bit saucy...


Yummy!! :oP


Start with rice, then meat, then add whatever you want! And add however much you want! It can be filling though! ;)


Hay stacks with home made applesauce! Super good and super easy!!!



Here I mixed it all up...

Hay Stacks

Ingredients to make sloppy joes :


2 pounds hamburger
1 onion
1/2 cup ketchup
2 tablespoons brown sugar
2 tablespoons vinegar
2 teaspoons mustard
2 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce

Make as recipe says.... ;)

Rice (as much as you need to feed your family)
Lettuce
Green and Black olives
Chopped onions (we use the purple/red onions - you could use green onion, the stick ones if you want)
tomatoes
Shredded cheddar cheese
Crushed Doritos

Again, add or take away whatever you want!!! Let me know if you added something and how you liked it!! ENJOY!!!!!!!! :D