Some Other Recipes I Have Tried Lately

I've tried some decent recipes lately so I thought I would share...

We made a mexican meal for Father's Day and here are the recipes that we used:

We made these enchiladas from Homesick Texan, they were delicious! The sauce tasted very similar to what you would get at Chuys, which I love.

picture from Homesick Texan

We also made this salsa from Pioneer Woman. I thought it was a great salsa, but best of all it was really easy to make. My brother thought it tasted like Don Pablos's salsa, so you can use that to decide if it is a style you would like :)

picture from the Pioneer Woman

I used this recipe to make homemade tortillas, the comments are not mine, they came with the recipe. For anyone wanting to try making homemade tortillas I would say that they are easy, but they are time consuming. I used a rolling pin to roll out each one and I like mine thin, so it seemed to take forever. I think for the next time I am going to invest in a tortilla press because I looked it up and they only cost about $20. While it may seem like a unitasker, I watched the tortilla espisode of Good Eats right after I made these and Alton Brown bought one, so I can too!

2 cups flour (I usually use AP, though I've thrown in some white wheat in a pinch)

1/2-teaspoon salt

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 cup butter (let it warm up a bit towards room temp sometimes... sometimes I don't)

3/4 cup warm water

• Mix flour, salt, baking power and butter

• Crumble together until coarse

• Add 3/4 cup warm water, mix until sticky, remove sticky clumps, add more water to bowl if needed, repeat until all dough is sticky and combined into a big mound. (play around with water amounts... it'll depend on a lot of factors how much you need)

• Kneed sticky dough in hands or in mixer for 2 minutes, until smooth and elastic (I forgot this step last night... no big whoop)

• Break dough up into 8-10 golf ball sized balls

• Dampen cloth with warm water and let cloth sit on dough for 20 minutes

• Pre-heat flat pan to medium-high

• Flatten dough into discs, roll flat, place on heat, cook 8 seconds then flip, then cook 1-1 1/2 minutes until bubbles form, flip and press edges, move to tortilla warmer.

For the sides, we made rice by cooking brown rice with salsa, and we made a pot of beans by following these quick soak directions then throwing a bunch of seasoning in the pot and simmering the beans until they were done (about 3 hours),

For dessert I made TC's grandma's strudel recipe, brought here straight from Czech. I can't share that recipe though, so you'll just have to come over to try it :) I can share however that I am really impressed with myself on how well it came out on the first try and that it tasted really yummy