I live in the Hot Air Balloon Capital of the world. Every year in October, the skies outside my house fill with Hot Air Balloons during the International Balloon Fiesta. The sight of them makes most dogs want to bark, but they make me want to cook up a batch of breakfast burritos.
The first burritos were created in Mexico. They are often filled with meat, fish or beans. When you eat them for breakfast they can be filled with eggs. The word burrito means “little donkey” in Spanish. Some people say that the burritos that we eat got their name because they carry lots of different things inside in the same way that donkeys carry many things in their packs.
The ends of a burrito are closed before the burrito is wrapped so that all of its filling remains inside. When you are flying up in the sky in the basket of a balloon, you want to be able to hold your breakfast in one hand while waving to people on the ground with the other! Let’s make Breakfast Burritos!
