Homemade Tortillas or How I Spent Last Friday Night...

In an effort to feel like I'm doing something with myself right now I've taken up cooking again... so with a rare weekend spent actually in my own home I thought it would be fun to make "homemade" tortillas. That and I wanted some to go with the 3 Day Taco Soup I was planning on having (that's another post).

So I ambitiously set out... I took 2 cups of this and a cup of water... mixed 'em together... rolled them into balls... and flattened them... at this point I was already over the project...

But this isn't something you can start and put aside because the dough starts to dry out awfully quickly (hence the wet paper towels in all the pictures)... so I persevered until I had these...



And at this point my Adult A.D.D. kicked in... so I added some oil to the frying pan thinking surely it would speed up the process... only it really didn't... instead what I got were some decent grease burns... and since at this point the tortillas has dried out enough that I couldn't keep them in one piece I ended up with deep fried bits of tortilla... so I did what every great latina would do... I turned them from fattening to SUPER fattening... added some cinnamon and sugar to them and took them from tortillas to homemade Churros...


So I ended up with dinner and dessert! Okay... by the time I was done enjoying their warm sweet yumminess it was just dessert... I mean the soup and tortillas would keep for a day but these were hot right then!

Tonight I'm leaving dinner up to the real pros... the girls and I are going on a girls night out... here... thanks to the wonder of social networking that is Twitter and their tweet... they don't officially open for two more nights... and we've got a table for 6 tonight... I can't wait!