A Healthy Breakfast

Fill your plate with a combination of these breakfast entrees and sides ranked by how healthy a serving is.

Perfect

• Fresh fruit is a safe option for any breakfast plate. Fresh fruit is packed with fiber, vitamins and minerals.
• Pack a ton of vegetables into your breakfast with a protein and fiber rich egg omellete .
• Water is literally the healthiest thing you can put into your body, have a lot of it, and have it often. You'll feel so much better for it.
• A hearty salad with lots of colorful vegetable is a light way to start your morning, dress lightly with lemon and a little olive oil.
• Milk is both good for you, with a ton of vitamins and minerals and filling as well. 2% or skim is best.

Good

• Hard boiled eggs are both filling and nutritious. Eating only the egg white is even better!
• Fresh squeezed fruit juice is not as good as raw fruit, but is still nutritious.

Decent

• Scrambled eggs can be healthy and better tasting by using a minimal amount of oil or butter.
• Bagels are great especially if they are whole wheat and without excess cream cheese.
• Sweet plantains can add some variety to your plate without breaking the bank.

Bad

• Bacon is so salty greasy and delicious, and it is for those reasons that we must eat it in moderation!
• Pop Tarts are just sugar, with a very very small amount of fruit sugar paste spread inside.
• Juice with added sugar or corn syrup should be avoided.
• Hashed Browns are crispy and yummy, but just like the bacon can be greasy and should not be consumed daily.

Easy Egg Recipes

We have gathered together a variety of tasty ways to get you egg-cited about eating this protein packed incredible edible super-food.

If you want to get a little more fancy try bringing these deviled eggs to a picnic.

A classic side item for breakfast is fluffy scrambled eggs served with a yummy side of bacon .

For a fast nutritious breakfast you can make this easy yet hearty egg omellete .

If you're looking for a new way to eat simple hard boiled eggs then you may want to try seasoned hard boiled eggs with butter. 

Delicious Way To Eat Hard Boiled Eggs

If you're tired of the same ole hard boiled egg, but somehow still want to eat hard boiled egg, you have come to the right recipe. Here's what you need for an indulgent yet simple plate of eggs.


Eggs , as many as you can eat!
A dash of salt
A dash of pepper
A dab of butter

1. There is a great method for preparing hard boiled eggs on this site. Follow the instructions to prepare your eggs.
2. Add butter, salt, and pepper and use your fork to lightly mash the still warm eggs.
3. Enjoy this delicious and interesting snack or mini meal.

How To Hard Boil Eggs The Right Way

If you overcook an egg when boiling it, it gets a sulfuric taste and dark green ring around the yolk. Yechh! Peeling eggs are much harder if they are farm fresh! Eggs a few days old are best, your supermarket's eggs are probably a few days old when you buy them. If you absolutely must use eggs hatched the same day you plan to hard boil them then steam for 20 minutes instead of boiling. They should be easier to peel that way, if they still aren't put in the fridge for a day and they should be fine.

Preparing perfectly cooked hard-boiled eggs are a snap if you follow these simple steps:

1. Put eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water.
2. Set heat on high and let water slowly come to a boil.
3. When water is at a hard boil remove pan from heat and let sit for 12 minutes.
4. Cool by pouring cold water into the saucepan or by setting the eggs on ice.
5. Store in a covered container in the refrigerator for up to 5 days.

Enjoy!

Simple Hearty Omellete

Ingredients

4 eggs, cracked open and lightly beaten
half small onion chopped fine
1/4 bell pepper chopped fine
1/4 cup tomato diced (optional)
1/4 cup diced ham
1/2 cup cheddar cheese (or whatever cheese you love)
a dash of salt and pepper
1 tbsp butter

Combine all ingredients except butter and cheese.
Melt the butter in a small frying pan under medium heat.
Pour egg mixutre into the frying pan.
For the first 30 seconds likely stir contents of the pan while the eggs are still wet.
Sprinkle cheese all over omellete.
Let egg cooks till cheese is melted and egg seems 90% cooked.
Use a spatula to carefully fold omellete in half.
Transfer to a  plate.

Eat and enjoy!

Sweet Plantain

You may have seen this dish called "platanos" or "platanos maduros". Platanos means plantain, but maduros means mature. This is because the plantain are very ripe, maybe even over ripe when you make this dish. Don't be fooled for recipes that call for sugar, yellow plantains, cooked correctly are sweet enough to serve for dessert. 

Ingredients

2 yellow plantain

2 tbsp butter

1 tbsp oil

Cut plaintains in half lengthwise.

Cut plantain pieces into smaller pieces.

If I'm cooking other components of the dinner I put the plantains in a bowl and cover with a damp paper towel to keep it from going brown. 

When you're ready to fry heat oil and butter in a frying pan until the butter is bubbling. Add in plantain.

Cook each side for about 4 minutes on medium heat, turning each piece around every so often to make sure it's not burning. The sugar in the plantain can be so sweet, or burn so bad.

When the plantain is browned on both sides remove from pan carefully as they will be so tender and fragile. It's best to use a spatula to remove from oil.

Serve warm. Feeds 4

American Style Bacon

Bacon and eggs are the classic American breakfast. First you make this, then you make our recipe for perfect scrambled eggs. Put those two together and the result is a very satisfied tummy.  That little teaspoon of oil is the difference between uneven amateur bacon, and perfect restaurant style American bacon. While bacon is usually made from side and back cuts of pork, in the United States, it is almost always prepared from the belly of the pig ( and is thus referred to as "streaky", "fatty", or "American style" outside of the US and Canada).

Ingredients

1/4 lb bacon
1 teaspoon oil

Put the teaspoon of oil in a spacious frying pan and set the heat to medium high.

Lay your bacon out flat. Now cut it in half for easier handling in the hot pan.

When oil is HOT add in bacon one piece at a time, be sure to not overcrowd the pan, there should be one layer of bacon in the pan. Overlapping pieces make for chewy uncooked sections of fat in the bacon.

As bacon sizzles, flip over pieces as the underside gets brown and crispy.

When bacon is a lovely brown all over, remove from oil and place on paper towels to drain.

Serve warm, feeds two people but I could easily eat all that bacon myself.

A popular quote on the mania around American bacon follows:

"There is: bacon ice cream; bacon-infused vodka; deep-fried bacon; chocolate-dipped bacon; bacon-wrapped hot dogs filled with cheese; brioche bread pudding smothered in bacon sauce; hard-boiled eggs coated in mayonnaise encased in bacon — called, appropriately, the 'heart attack snack'; bacon salt; bacon doughnuts, cupcakes and cookies; bacon mints; 'baconnaise', which Jon Stewart described as 'for people who want to get heart disease but are too lazy to actually make bacon'; Wendy's 'Baconnator' — six strips of bacon mounded atop a half-pound cheeseburger — which sold 25 million in its first eight weeks; and the outlandish 'bacon explosion' — a barbecued meat brick composed of 2 pounds of bacon wrapped around 2 pounds of sausage."

— Arun Gupta

Perfect Easiest Scrambled Eggs

Everyone likes their scrambled eggs a certain way, this recipe is flexible enough for any way you like your eggs...but will still come out pefectly cooked every single time. Give this a try, they go well with our recipe for American style Bacon

Ingredients
6 eggs
1/2 teaspoon salt
dash of black pepper or red (cayenne) pepper
2 tbsp butter (or oil, or bacon fat)

Crack eggs carefully into a bowl. Check for and remove eggshell pieces before breaking egg yolks.

Add in salt and pepper. Grate onion over egg mixture.
Use a whisk or fork to beat eggs until the yolks are broken and mostly combined into one yellow mixture.

Heat butter, oil, or bacon fat in a pan on medium.

Add in eggs, continuously stirring so the bottom of the pan does not cook too fast. This is why I used a deeper saucepan.

At first mixture will look ugly as little pieces of cooked egg are stirred into the raw egg.

Keep stirring. Then= eggs will get thicker, resembling cottage cheese but tasting much better. Now turn your heat to low if you like your eggs drier, and off if you like your eggs more moist.

Continue to stir eggs using the residual heat from the pan until your eggs are at the "dryness" you prefer. They will always be prefectly creamy and delicious using this method.

Serves 3

Deli Bodega Style Bagel

If you want a soft yet crispy toasted bagel like the kind they sell at the expensive New York City delis try this.

Ingredients

2 bagels
Filling of choice, I like cream cheese

Cut good quality bagel in half.

Place on pan or aluminum foil and place in oven.

Set oven to 375, when oven is done preheating, check bagels.
If your bagels are not as toasty as you would like cook for another 3 minutes.
Remove from oven and spread with cream cheese, or whatever you love to eat between two pieces of bread.

Enjoy! Makes 2 bagels

**Alternative Cooking Method**

Place bagels in cold oven. Set oven to broil and check every 2 minutes until bagels are brown and toasty. Continue on as above with spreading the filling