Recipe: Bean Chilaquiles with Avocado & Queso Fresco — Weekday Breakfast Recipes from The Kitchn

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Here’s a classic one-dish Mexican breakfast originally conceived as a way to use up leftover tortillas. It doesn’t usually include beans, but this version was invented one hungry morning when a perusal of the refrigerator turned up some leftover cooked beans, a half-jar of salsa and a few other odds and ends.

Don’t worry if you don’t have all the ingredients. As long as you have the beans, salsa, tortillas and eggs, the dish will satisfy. You’ll have breakfast on the table in the time it takes to brew the coffee.

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It’s Breakfast Week at The Kitchn! What Do You Want to Talk About?

Welcome to March! Every March we do a month that we call 3 Square Meals, devoting a week each to breakfast, lunch, and dinner (plus snacks). This lines up with our Cooking Cure which kicked off today with your first assignment. This whole week will be about the what, how, and why of breakfast. What do you want to talk about? Tell us!

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Why Recipes Call for Unsalted Butter — Ingredient Intelligence

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A couple months ago, in the depths of holiday baking season, my friend Wendy sent me a message. “Faith,” she said. “I have a question about butter. Why do some recipes call for unsalted butter? I don’t always have unsalted butter on hand — is it a big deal or not?”

Can you relate? Maybe you’ve wondered this too: why do baking recipes usually call for unsalted butter?

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Rabbit Spoons and Subtle Signs of Spring (Plus Some Exciting News!) — Weekend Meditation

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My landlady stopped by this morning to retrieve her mail, which I had been dutifully saving from our drenching late winter rains while she was away in Mexico. In return, she presented me with a gift of a little Oaxacan spoon topped with a carved pink rabbit. The cheerful pink bunny and the arrival of March are just a few of the many reminders that spring, and all the changes it will bring, is not that far off. (Honest. I swear.)

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