Tortilla Tempest

About 20 or so volunteers are meeting in Tetovo (the same place we were for New Years) and we will ski (or snowboard in my case) on Saturday. Since we are staying at our friend Angie's house we are all bringing various food items.

Shaun and I were assigned tortilla chips but we found out that they aren't available at the big (luxury) store where we thought we could find them so instead we decided we would go crazy and MAKE the tortillas.

For two people who don't spend a ton of time trying new recipes this turned into very much an all night affair.We started out making corn flour tortillas. Wow, that was messy. The batter seemed to be the proper consistency and fit the description of the recipe, but when we cooked them we were dissapointed with the final product. The good news is that we think we can use them as frizbees, or back up loofah sponges.

We went back to drawing board (actually we went back to allrecipes.com) and started from scratch with a new recipe. The second one worked very well but the recipe did not yield the amount it said so we had to make another batch. Thank God I took a nap earlier in the day! Finally we finished (at about 1:30 am) and we had 25 good tortillas and about 20 faux-frizbees. Maybe we will make them into tortilla chips.

Here is a photo of Shaun tending the tortillas.