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Easy flour tortilla recipe

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 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.

what it looks like after butter was hand mixed

divided into 26 pieces (only 24 shown here)

rolled out into 7 inch round (I do not make them “perfect”)

Enjoy! And live simple!

Food, Uncategorized, Women

Craving pizza on a budget?

August 26, 2015August 26, 2015 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

August 22, 2015August 24, 2015 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!