Homemade Tortillas And A Care Package

Move over Santa Maria....eat your heart out Old El Paso my homemade tortillas taste better then your tortillas, hands down! As with most things, homemade versions usually taste a heck of a lot better then store bought. I know this is true of tortillas because I´ve eaten at restaurants in Texas which served homemade tortillas and tastes like that stick in your mind...trust me. I´ve only tried to make tortillas one other time and the recipe was not as good as this one. I have Tasty Kitchen to thank for this lovely recipe which you can find HERE. Now here´s the story...I made this dough last night...but after my wild party weekend last weekend I just have not been able to bounce back and I´ve had things going on almost every night this week...so I was so tired after I made the dough and then Sarah started talking about how she almost got some sushi on her way home that day and I looked at her and I said, "would you get us some sushi if I loaned you my car and my wallet?" to which she answered "YES!" And so that evening we ate sushi and put the dough in the fridge!


After work today I took the dough out and it looked a little funky...wasn´t quite sure if I would be able to use it or not but Tasty Kitchen had said she had left the dough in the fridge overnight so I figured I could still use it. So I cut the dough into pieces and began rolling them out super thin...

The next step is to heat up a frying pan. I used no oil, nothing...just warmed the pan up at the highest heat but we learned quickly to turn it down to a medium heat as these started to burn rather quickly. They do not take any time before they are bubbling, you flip them over so they are heated on both sides and you get nice brown spots on them which give them a very authentic homemade look! Keep them under a dish towel while you are heating up the rest. We found this was a two man job as they heated so quickly I didn´t have time to roll out the next one because I had to watch the one in the pan. So Sarah helped me. She flipped them in the pan and I rolled them out! Teamwork is a glorious concept! 

We filled our tortillas with ground chicken, fresh veggies, salsa, and light sour cream. A delicious and filling dinner. These tortillas filled you up so quickly! 

Around Easter several people were talking about marshmallow peeps, one of my favourite childhood Easter candies. I haven´t written my Dad and asked for a care package in a long time but I decided I needed to write and ask if he would be willing to send me a few items. I told him I would happily pay if he would send me these things. Well, then time went by and I forgot all about having asked him for some goodies until we got a message from the postal service that we had a package waiting for us. I went down to the store to get the package and the guy brought out this BIG package from the back room. I couldn´t wait until I got home to open and have a peek...I was on my way to dog training and then to see Thomas´s first soccer game so I had to wait until I got home to have a proper look but once home we were able to put all the goodies out on the table....

While the marshmallow peeps and reeses were my favourites here I have to say the flavored coffee creamers are the best thing with this package because I can have that every day!!! :-) I want to send a huge thanks to my Dad and my Stepmom for sending us so much! As anyone who has sent a package overseas knows..this was very expensive not only to buy the goodies inside but to send and I was not allowed to send them money to pay for any of this. So from the bottom of my heart and the bottom of my candy-a-holic children´s stomachs...THANK YOU SO MUCH Dad and Donna!! 


The weekend is coming up and tacos are a favourite weekend dinner so why not say, Adios to Santa Maria and Old El Paso this weekend and give these tortillas a try? I promise you won´t regret it! 


So what plans do you have for the weekend?


Until next time my friends....