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We made tortillas today. I haven’t made tortillas since I was a little kid. Actually we made tortillas twice today. The first time we used the forbidden white flour. Then I sat around and thought about it and then Google and I had a little talk about whole wheat tortillas. I found three trillion, no, that might be an exageration, a billion recipes for whole wheat tortillas. So I realized this must be possible, homemade whole wheat tortillas.
So we made us some more tortillas. Can I just say I thought it would be harder than it was, and I thought it would take lots longer than it did. Or maybe I am just so much more fit now that I don’t feel fatigued as easily. Probably some of both.
But the important thing to realize is these homemade tortillas have an ingredient list that is only five items long. Have you read the ingredient list on store bought tortillas? Shame on them.
Here is my favorite picture of the days tortillas making efforts. (And I had lots to choose from. When I give Dusty the photography assignment he takes his job seriously. He took 89 pics of Tex and me makin’ tortillas. Well, ok, some were of Trixie-the-Wonder-Dog and the inside of Rowdy’s mouth while he ate a tortilla, but mostly it was us.)
The reason I love this photo is because of all the irregularities in these tortillas. Ya know? Homemade stuff has a look to it. I am really starting to appreciate the homemade (non cookie cutter) look. The really cool bit is that my children are starting to recognize the value of homemade items. Maybe it’s because they are a little older, but I think it’s because I talk about it a lot. We discuss the harmful ingredients in most factory produced “foods” and they are getting to taste the evidence that homemade is best.
The recipe for the tortillas is on my recipe blog, Homemade and Wholesome.
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Hi Anita,
I had a comment on Homemade and Wholesome from Natalie saying the same thing about the tortillas not coming out right. Hers weren’t soft either.
And what is that flatbread and how do ya make it? We love hummus and used to eat it up on crackers, but crackers are anathema now, so I need a new hummus platform. Oooh, maybe it would be good on the tortillas. Hmmm…
Yup, mine too. I must say that all that standing in the kitchen for the rolling and cooking of the tortillas would have done me in, knees and back-wise, before I started exercising. But now, even though it’s only been a couple of weeks, I am much more durable in that way. Doesn’t get to me a bit, and I’m old. Well, older than I used to be, anyway.
I am going to have to try these, they really don’t look that hard. Tortillas have been my one grocery-store-convience-food hold out! LOL!
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I have an electric tortilla press that I love! I am not making tortillas for Mexican food consumption, but we make a flatbread that is great right off the press with hummus. Delicious. I haven’t figured out how to make tortillas soft, so that will actually fold over. If I use them we have to have them more as a flour tostado. KWIM