Try Again: flatbread
Toss: soup
Somewhere in the vague recesses of my memory, I know I read a book in which there was a scene where a woman was making fresh soft tortillas on a hot dry griddle outside in a courtyard. This must have taken place in Mexico or South America. I've been scratching at my brain all evening trying to remember where to place this memory, but it remains inscrutable. Ever since reading that scene, I've hung on to that nugget of information that homemade tortillas are possible and possibly easy. That thought has been floating around the back and bottom of my head, under other more pressing information, for years I believe.
Tonight, I tried making tortillas for the first time. It was not a complete success, but there is definite potential. I'm going to try it again, and maybe make portobello fajitas to stuff into them. I made two recipes from October 2010's Today's Parent: Chicken and Baby Corn Curry Soup with Easy Flatbread. The chicken soup was good but neither G nor I were very excited by it. We felt bad for the recipe, as it didn't stand a chance when we were still full from our lunch at Town, a hot new restaurants in Ottawa and where we went as part of our movie-and-lunch-anniversary celebration. So, we'll toss the soup recipe. To go with the soup I made flatbreads, which are thinner than a Greek flatbread and more tortilla-like in consistency. Next time I intend to divide the dough up a bit more, really flatten it out and try to make thin tortillas with it.
