Roasted Potatoes, Take Two
30 Sep 2010 Leave a Comment
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I’ve mentioned before that I adore potatoes, right? I could never do a low-carb diet because there is just no way I could eliminate potatoes from my kitchen.
This is another take on roasted potatoes. These potatoes are so delicious that they are a staple around here once the weather starts cooling and the oven comes into use. Even better, the recipe calls for just six simple ingredients, most of which you’re certain to have on hand. More
Easy Homemade: Flour Tortillas
28 Sep 2010 1 Comment
in food traditions, recipe Tags: flour tortillas, recipe
According to my husband, there likely is nothing better than a homemade flour tortilla … preferrably made by his mother.
Unfortunately, she’s the type that doesn’t measure, and I need measurements for baking (are tortillas baking? hmm) – especially for a new recipe. So, the next best option for me to conquer the recipe was to turn to my sister-in-law, Lidia (the other daughter-in-law). Her flour tortillas rival our mother-in-law’s. She’ll make a few dozen on a Saturday morning, and they’ll all be eaten up before breakfast is over. I spent several sessions with Lidia, getting the recipe just right.
And so, armed with the recipe below, I set out to rid our house of packaged flour tortillas.
A few notes about making the tortillas, first. If your water is too warm, the tortillas turn out hard and leathery. You can use lard in place of the shortening, but Lidia and I both agree that the vegetable shortening gives a much lighter-tasting tortilla. Finally, you can adjust the salt in the recipe slightly, by about half a teaspoon up or down, for your taste. More
Easy Homemade: Dinner Rolls
29 Jul 2010 Leave a Comment
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In the past, bread — especially dinner rolls — terrified me. No more. It’s not that I’ve found any miraculously special recipe, or anything like that. At some point, I just accepted that what comes out of my kitchen does not have to be perfect AND my guys love just about everything I cook or bake. That knowledge makes things like dinner rolls, which previously were the bane of my exisitence, cake. More
Lime-Pickled Onions
28 Jul 2010 2 Comments
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I can’t recall the first time I had onions pickled this way. I remember having fresh onions that had been marinating in lime juice for a little while at a hole in the wall in Mexico, but those onions certainly weren’t pickled. Ah well – the purpose of this rambling is to get to the point that onions pickled in lime juice are delicious. And SUPER easy. I wouldn’t even really call this a recipe, as much as a technique. More
