Category: Food

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Easy flour tortilla recipe

Hannah Lucio

Our family absolutely loves flour tortillas. But, we do not all the ingredients in the store bought tortillas. I found a recipe that I altered a bit and it’s so yummy! 

Ingredients:

2 cups whole wheat flour

2 cups all purpose flour

1/2 tsp salt

2 tsp. baking powder

2 Tbsp. softener butter

1 1/2 cups water
Directions:

Mix flour, salt and baking powder in mixing bowl. Mix butter with fingers or wisk until it looks like cornmeal. Add water and mix with wooden spoon until it comes together. Sprinkle a half cup of flour on dry surface and knead dough until smooth and elastic. Divide into 26 pieces and roll each one into a small ball. 

On stove, Preheat pan on medium heat. On lightly floured surface, Roll each ball out into thin 7 inch round tortillas. (Do not over flour the pieces) Place into preheated pan and cook for about a minute on each side. It needs to bubble before you flip it to the other side. (Do not leave in the pan for to long or else it’ll turn out hard.) I put them immediately into foil to keep warm and so they do not get hard. When I put them immediately into a foil wrap all together they stay soft and amazing for at least a week. If you have a tortilla water that’ll work great also, we just do not have one. 
 

flour, salt and baking powder
  
what it looks like after butter was hand mixed
  
Smooth and elastic after kneaded
  
divided into 26 pieces (only 24 shown here)
  
rolled out into 7 inch round (I do not make them “perfect”)
  
cooked and in the foil wrap
  
Maverick approved! He loves them!
 

Enjoy! And live simple! 

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Craving pizza on a budget?

Hannah Lucio

Need a fast lunch?

Craving “pizza” but don’t want to pay a hefty price for pizza?

Do you have pasta sauce? Cheese? Left over hot dog and/or hamburger buns?

Here is the solution and it only takes about 10 minutes. 

“pizza” finished and packed to take to our daily family picnic at the hubby’s work.

We have been making this style of “pizza” for as long as I can remember as a kid. 

Preheat the oven to 425 degrees

1. Separate your hamburger and/or hot dog buns.

2. Spread pasta sauce onto hamburger and/or hot dog buns

3. Spread cheese onto hamburger and/or hot dog buns

4. Put into over and keep an eye on it. I typically let the cheese melt and then turn it to boil and make them  toasted. 

And, voila, Done! 

Super easy, cheap and you can get rid of the left over hamburger and hot dog buns. Woot! 
Enjoy and live simple 🙂

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Whole wheat bread with oats and almond milk recipe

Hannah Lucio

I know what some of you might be thinking…..gross! But hear me out. I am experimenting with different recipes to make our “normal” every day’s foods a little bit healthier. I came across a recipe and had to try it out. I altered it a bit and it came out amazing! I have to share my version of this recipe. 

Ingredients:

1 cup water

1 cup almond milk  (I used vanilla unsweetened 30 calorie Silk Almond Milk)

2 1/4 teaspoons (Fleischmann’s active dry yeast)

2 tablespoons honey (sue bee)

4 cups whole wheat flour (King Arthur whole wheat , whole grain flour)

1 cups all-purpose flour (Costco brand)

1 cup rolled oats (Quaker oats, regular)

4 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted and cooled slightly (Costco brand)

1 teaspoon salt (mortons) 

Directions:

In a microwave safe bowl Combine water and almond milk and Microwave for 30 seconds until warm. Add yeast and honey. Let mixture sit until yeast is foamy. 

Pour into mixing bowl

Add flours, oats, butter and salt. Using a dough hook, knead on medium speed about 6 minutes until dough is smooth, elastic and only slightly sticky. Keep dough in bowl and cover with a clean kitchen towel. Let rise in a warm place about 1 hour until doubled. I check mine at about 30 minutes and it’s normally close to doubled. 

When dough is doubled, punch down and transfer to a lightly floured surface. Press into an 9×9 inch square, tuck sides in (about 1 inch each side) and roll up into a log. Press seems together to seal the dough. Transfer to a lightly greased (Pam or butter) 9×5-inch loaf pan, seam side down. Cover with the same clean towel and let rise about 30 minutes until dough reaches the edges of the pan.

Heat oven to 400 degrees F (375 degrees F if loaf pan is dark or nonstick). 

Bake 40-50 minutes. 

You can rotate the pan halfway through but not required. 

Bake until loaf is deep brown on top and bottom sizzles when you tap your wet finger on the bottom of pan. (FYI: That is how our family has always done it but be careful not to burn yourself. I have never burnt myself but if you haven’t done it before just remember to tap the bottom with a wet finger not hold your finger there.)

Let loaf sit for 5 minutes and then remove from loaf pan onto a cooling rack. I normally cut the bread and put butter on it soon after so I get to taste the freshest bread ever 🙂 

Enjoy! I hope you like it as much as our family does!

 

water, almond milk, honey and yeast foamy
  
i mix the flours, oats and salt together and add to yeast mixture
  
after 6 minutes of kneeding
  
after 30 minute rise
   

Food, Uncategorized

Beans and rice, rice and beans

Hannah Lucio

If you know anything about Dave Ramsey you know exactly what I am talking about. If you haven’t heard of him then I highly recommend googling him and listen to his podcast. Me and my husband have been on his Financial Peace program for almost two years now. We have had a lot of ups and downs and have not been “perfect” on getting out of debt. But, we are constantly learning and striving to get there.

So you might be asking, so what the heck does beans and rice, rice and beans have anything to do with this. Well, it is a way of eating when you are strapping down and getting out of debt. Does it mean you literally have to eat beans and rice all the time….no but it is healthy 🙂 I personally have noticed that I feel better eating beans and rice. I guess it can technically be a vegetarian “diet” but we do add meat in small amounts to mix it up. Over the next few posts I will be providing easy recipes that have beans and rice in them. I have gotten pretty creative with our meals and they turn out pretty darn good. I also have been learning tricks on spreading our meals “thin” to make the most of our food and money. Our family loves it and it is less expensive than most meals out there. Oh and pennies compared to fast food! We do like to eat out occasionally but that is normally to Chick fil a and Texas roadhouse . We still live but just limited to spending a ton of money.

Tonight I will be cooking one of our “mega” beans and rice meals and will be posting that tonight or tomorrow so you can see what I am talking about. Stay tuned, this is very exciting for me  to share our beans, rice and other sort of recipes. And also, stay tuned for our first football food night this Thursday and family homemade pizza Friday’s. This is ONE very exciting week!