Homemade Tortillas
Today seemed really long, but not for any particular reason.
Gwynn (my wife), Gela (my daughter), and I ran some errands and we visited our friend Jeni, mostly to hang out and catch up and, a little, because Jeni wants me to re-redesign a logo for the plumbing business her and her husband, Brad, own.
I designed them a few logos a while back, then they decided to change the business name; which they ended up not doing, and finally they decided they’d like to go a different direction with the look and feel for the logo. Here are the rough logos we stopped at before the ‘almost’ name change back in September 2007:
It was cool hanging out, sketching ideas, and brainstorming. We ended up staying there almost 3 hours. When we got home I spent about an hour and a half or so doing some research and rough sketches of some of the ideas and themes we talked about. I’m not sure how it’s all going to turn out, but some of the concepts we all came up with have potential.
At 9:30pm or 10:00pm I decided I wanted tortillas, so I did what any self-respecting tortilla wanting person does: I made some tortillas. I used the recipe from “How To Cook Everything” by Mark Bittman. His recipe is:
- 1 1/2 cup flour (plus some for rolling the tortillas out)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoons lard/butter/oil — I used Canola oil
- Water to make dough
- Profit!
They turned out alright, maybe a little too flour-y, but they didn’t take very long to make at all. My tortilla desires have been fulfilled.
Tags: brainstorm, Business, Design, homemade tortillas, logo, mark bittman, name change, research
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:16 am
I really enjoy Mark Bittman’s books. They area always a great resource for most any dish!
Don’t you miss really great tortillas? Now I want to make some and some breakfast tacos!
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:07 pm
The only cookbook I own by Mark is “How To Cook Everything.” How are is other books?
I totally miss freshly made tortillas. I was thinking about it last night, and maybe you can help me with this, but I used to get these amazing sweet rolls from Mexico. They weren’t super sweet, just subtly so, and they reminded me of German rolls (brochen) — kind of football shaped, good for sandwiches. They were awesome with just butter. Do you remember or know of anything like that??
I think that covers my random question for the day.
April 3rd, 2008 at 12:35 pm
Mark Bittman has a great vegetarian book, I got it a few months ago at Costco for a good price.
The only mexican bread that I know of was sold at the HEB and downtown San Antonio and looked like this:
http://mexicanfood.about.com/b/2005/11/21/pan-dulce-mexican-sweet-bread.htm
April 9th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
Is his vegetarian book good??
Those aren’t the type of bread I was thinking of…but, of course, now I miss those!
April 10th, 2008 at 6:32 am
yes, the book is very good!