the morning after/breakfast of champions

You know what's good about leftover chili or stew? Breakfast the morning after! On Sunday evening our family celebrated Cinco de Mayo (we're Hawaiian, like to celebrate everything--And, it's a reason to cook and eat Mexican style). We never know who is going to show up and sometimes that throws the planned potluck way off the charts. Take for instance last week--Italian. But the salad people brought chocolate chip cookies (always welcomed at any family affair!). This week the dessert people had an early Mother's Day committment and the drinks people--well, sometimes they come, sometimes they don't--and that's why they have the drinks!

So Kanoe brought enchiladas. I, of course, couldn't make up my mind - I made a pot of chili and set out some tortilla chips. My house is low fat everything--our problem is that we LEAVE the house to eat a lot of the times! Wes bought some 0 transfat tortilla chips, guacamole and sour cream. The chips are new from Tostitos and are multi-grain--taste really good! So we set out 2 bags of those with peach-mango salsa and some cheese. I draw the line for no fat at cheese. One time I tried to melt some over a dish of something and they looked like Cheetos cheese puffs and tasted nasty! The chili was warming in the large crock pot and I made a pot of rice. That way people could have chili with rice or make chili nachos in the microwave. The salad people brought chocolate chip cookies again, so, we had no veggies! I would fire the salad people, but they make great chocolate chip cookies!!

On Monday morning I fried up half a Portuguese sausage, added it to the chili over rice and fried an egg over easy to put on top of the chili. Forget the steel cut oats, the yoggurt with fruit, there is no substitute for this breakfast! Well, writing about food first thing in the morning is making me hungry!