I have been putting off making tortillas for awhile, but I finally got around to actually making some earlier this week. I have watched tortillas being made in the past, and I thought they would be a great item to have on my food storage menu, since they take few ingredients and cook fast, so not that much fuel would be required to cook them. I looked around and looked around and looked around...and procrastinated...
I finally settled on this recipe, which I found over at the Happy Housewife.
Then I procrastinated some more.....
Flash forward to a night where I didn't feel like scrubbing potatoes and was low on ideas for blog posts, and the time just seemed right. So I tried the recipe.
High points: They tasted really good. The kids really liked them, and they disappeared almost as fast as I could make them. Even my child who doesn't really like bread was eating them. However, their popularity made it very inconvenient to get a picture, since I was hungry myself by the time I sat down, which reminds me of the single, solitary low point:
I probably wouldn't have been particularly happy with a picture, because my tortillas weren't round. They were more...glob-shaped. Yeah, entirely my fault. So they weren't uniformly shaped, but since we were just eating them with chili, there wasn't really a problem. However, there would have been some difficulty had we been trying to make tacos or something with them. Soooo, I guess I will have to practice the rolling-out methods that will lead to round tortillas. After I master that particular point of tortilla making, it will be more of a total success.
I recommend this recipe--easy, fast, and delicious. And if you can make your tortillas round, you're ahead of me already.... :)
7 comments:
Hi! Just a quick reassuring note...the more often you make the tortillas the rounder and more "perfect" they will be. I have made them for years and the first couple will always be wonky looking, but they will taste delicious. I also will make them with half whole wheat and half white flour and that is delicious.
Mesa mom
Ah flour torillas. I bought a bag of corn torilla mix at Aldis Despite our numerous attempts just not the same as flour ones.
Good post.
Mesa mom--That is good to know--I will just have to keep making them...:)I will have to try the mixed flours version--it will give me more motivation to grind my wheat. Thanks very much for your comment!
Pelenaka--It would be great to be able to make corn tortillas (especially if I could manage to make tostada shells) but I bet they would be more challenging than flour tortillas. I might look for a recipe for that now--thanks for your comment, and for your kind words!
The first commenter is right, it just takes time and practice. Ours actually are getting rounder, they sure taste good though.
DebbieO--I'm looking forward to having them be rounder, but they are such a big hit here that practicing shouldn't be that much of a problem... :) Thanks so much for your comment!
Carl--Your comment didn't show up here for some reason, although I published it--hope all is going well with you and your family, and I bet it's warmer there than here right now. :) Thanks as always for commenting---I need to work harder so that there is more to post about!
I had to smile when I read this. My tortillas usually look sort of like Texas... or Alaska.
Sharon--Maybe we will have to figure out which states ours look like next time! :) Ah, well, at least they taste good--thanks for your comment!
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