I’m actually a fairly open-minded individual. I know that the impression of most survivalists is that we are a bunch of Bible-thumping, gun-humping, right-wing reactionaries who are the enemy of all things ‘non-traditional’. Not so for me. I may not agree with something but…you do you, man.
However…
I absolutely abhor fusion cuisine. Taking one particular genre/species/school of food and combing it with another is… wrong. Example: Taco pizza. Look, either you go eat a taco or you order a pizza. You don’t mix them together. It’s just…..no. Mexican stir-fry? Egg foo omelette? Ranch dressing on pizza? Egg sandwich between two donuts? No, no, no.
But…once in a while…I sin against the culinary gods. Todays affront: the breakfast burrito.
As a survivalist I am all about a couple tings when it comes to food: portability, shelf-life, and quantity. And, as much as I hate to drift into mixing cuisines, the breakfast burrito is handy. It’s a hearty traditional breakfast that requires no tableware, can be rolled up in some aluminum foil and tucked in a pocket, and carries a powerful caloric/carbohydrate punch.
Todays dietary deviance utilized long-term stores just to see what would happen:
We have some dehydrated eggs from CostCo, the survivalist staple of canned bacon, some instant hash browns, some freeze dried cheese blend, and, of course, tortillas. Now, the tortillas were not out of long-term. But, to be fair, I have drums of corn and flour, a grain mill, and some cast iron – so I could make tortillas from scratch using my long-term grain if I had to.
Eggs cooked up just fine, bacon spent some time in a pan to get the fat melted and mixed with the rehydrated hashbrowns. Mix in some cheese and wrap it up in a tortilla:
Results were yummy, but could have benefited probably from a sharper cheese. Some salsa (theres that stupid fusion thing) would also have been nice. And, I do keep salsa on the shelf in storage, but didnt feel like cracking it open. As an aside, given the ingredients in salsa, you can source the individual freeze dried ingredients and make your own instant salsa blend.
Breakfast is the one meal that, after the apocalypse, will be actually better than what i eat now. For some reason, all the things you’d do for breakfast seem to have long-term storage options that lend them quite well to the survivalist pantry. I’ve posted about it before, but a post-apocalyptic breakfast menu would actually better than what I eat now. Go figure.