Here's the totals of everything made: 20 tortillas, 24 Chocolate-Chocolate Chip muffins, Pizza Dough for two pizzas, 6 "Cheesy-illas" (that's 4 year old speak for quesadillas), 1lb. Venison sausage cooked up, and one large Vidalia onion. The onion and sausage were cooked up at the same time; some to go on pizza and some to go in the freezer for a later date.
PHEW!
This was the first time that I had made tortillas. I always thought that this would be difficult, but it was so easy. Here's the recipe that I used:
Flour Tortillas:
3 cups all purpose flour
1/3 shortening
Pinch of Salt
1 cup warm water
Combine all ingredients, kneading until dough forms. Divided it all into 20 golf ball size balls. Gave a light coating to all of them and then let them rest for about 20 minutes covered. Then, roll out dough on a floured surface. I was really surprised how thin these could roll out. The dough was really easy to work with. Stack all with wax paper between each until ready to cook. Preheat a large griddle or frying pan. Cook each until it begins to puff up like this:
Then flip and press firmly on the tortilla to remove the bubbles. Cook another minute and remove from pan. Here's the finished results:
I stacked these (again) as they finished cooking with the same waxed paper between each.
Oh, and I should mention some pancakes that got made a few days ago. You haven't lived until you've eaten tye-dyed pancakes!
The kids loved them.
Tye Dyed Pancakes:
2 cups self rising flour
2 eggs
2 to 2.5 cups buttermilk (you don't want the batter too thick so add more if necessary)
1 Tbsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla (optional)
Various Wilton food coloring pastes
Combine first 5 ingredients in bowl. Then, if you are going to have several different colored pancakes, separate the batter into a few other bowls. *Take a toothpick and dip it into the first color. It takes only a drop! Swirl the color into the batter and then discard the toothpick.* Repeat that step for as many colors as you choose to have. My boys chose three colors each, your mileage may vary. Make sure that you don't blend the batter so much that you no longer have swirls. You are better off swirling less than more. Next, carefully ladle the batter into a very hot griddle sprayed lightly with cooking spray. I use an electric griddle that I dearly love that was set to 400 degrees. Cooking the pancakes until you see big holes form, then flip with spatula and cook until done. These turned out so pretty it was almost a shame to cut them up!
