homemade tortillas with BUTTER! the best ;-)

My mom still makes them from scratch. It is a lost tradition to be. Did go to Las Vegas while back and could not FIND THEM NO WHERE but one place--The Flamingo!!!

Suzy, don't hate just enjoy it. By the way...ceasar salad is a mexican dish too.

I used to make homemade tortillas, but then I discovered the pre-mixed flour, then I discovered the ones at HEB Plus, that's even easier! It really is a lost art, making homemade anything. My mom still makes homemade tortillas, just not very often. So when she does, she makes about four dozens because all her kids and their families come over for some yummy home cooking.

Not to worry. Soon a feature will be run by this weak fiction author with his OWN recipe for totillas.

Was that corn, or flour, Gabe?

Toni...you are lucky back then HEB did not make tortillas fresh. I would have scrapped every nickle I had --they are definitely better than anything I made back then.

I came over to see the fuss. ....

*blinks*

Anyway. You know I can't make tortillas. My mom tried to show me. Mine always turn out hard and nasty... and square-like.

I go to HEB and get theirs and then tell guests they are mine.

Evil is a bad bad thing when tortillas are involved.

Oh... and can you talk about the restaurants around here that say they make homemade tortillas and during downtime they give you a fake plastic-like tortilla because they don't feel like making a fresh one?

Thumbs down on that.

Hey when in college at VC I made my own tortillas by hand, browned in a skillet and ate with peanut butter --it was all I could afford.

But I am asking can't we see other recipes. Why do we have to discuss the six flags? Maybe this tortilla thing belongs in the cooking section then. I was asking about recipes.

I would love a good gnochi recipe --there are lots of Italians in Victoria. Mine are too hard...no jokes please.

Sugar and Chatty the 6 flags of Texas include Spain and Mexico. This article is historically relevant to the very dirt under your feet. Texas was bought from Mexico from Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón. Tantrums about articles of this nature are less then flattering on the historical knowledge of those complaining and well petty. The articles focus is more on the line of cooking by scratch in general in a modern world were homemakers are stretched thin.

I am of Italian heritage. I make my own spaghetti. Oh, and by the way, I am TEXAN and make my own chili as well. Next question?

A tortilla is just a flat bread. Most cultures have flat bread.

Could we have an article on how to make Irish beef stew or haggus? Let's be equal and have recipes from all ethnic groups.

Yes I do but only because of my son's food allergies. I can control what goes in them here. All of the store-bought ones that I've seen have things in them that he cannot eat. If I could find someone to do it for me, I would seriously think about paying someone. There's nothing more boring than standing over a stove cooking one at a time.

I appreciate the idea of the story. I remember a house keeper who made a hybrid of corn/flour that I have not seen in decades. She explained how flour was more costly in her village in Mexico and corn was used to stretch the dough. I remember them as the most tasty I have ever enjoyed. Regional variations might be a point of interest to consider in your story.