About a year ago I learned how to make corn tortillas with a tortilla press and masa bought in the grocery store. I make a similar breakfast for myself, but I use jalapenos, cilantro, queso fresco and a squeeze of fresh lime with the egg. Breakfast of champions! I agree!

One of the best and most memorable meals I have ever had was a very long time ago while visiting in Tecolutla Mexico (in Vera Cruz). I was with a group of gringos being shown a coconut plantation owned by the local mayor, bar-owner, business man, etc. whom we had met in his bar on our first visit to the tiny town. We had been drinking fresh green coconuts chopped from a tree by the caretaker, spiked with a little gin and we were all hungry. The caretaker took us to his home, a dirt floored hut in the middle of this beautiful coconut plantation and his wife fed us the simplest of meals, but I will never forget the taste of those scrambled eggs and fresh tortillas, queso fresco, black beans, with tiny whole fried fish and the thickest blackest sweetest coffee I’ve ever had. Heaven on Earth. That “tortilla” thing is universal, huh?