This week’s World Wide Wednesday activity was a children’s book we borrowed from the library, titled Huevos Rancheros, by Stefan Czernecki. The story is set in Mexico, and begins in Mexico City where Marcelina the hen lives in a cage on the balcony of a cantina. She lays the eggs that the chef uses to make his popular huevos rancheros. Marcelina longs to escape the confines of her cage, and one day succeeds, only to end up in a worse predicament involving a coyote…
One of the best parts of this book is that at the end there is a simple recipe for huevos rancheros. We researched a little and discovered that huevos rancheros (which means, rancher’s eggs) is a classic Mexican breakfast dish. As indicated by the name, traditionally it was/is popular on farms. The book’s recipe was simple to follow, and perfect for a 3 year old to assist with preparing (without overwhelming either one of us – much). It involved making a quick homemade salsa, frying a few eggs (although we scrambled ours), placing them on corn tortillas, pouring the salsa over them and the main dish was complete. We served it with homemade refried black beans. Delicious. And no…no pics. But, here is a pic of how it could look…
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