Recipes

Recipe 1: Tortillas

Here is the recipe for the tortillas I made awhile back.  It is based on the recipe I grew up making and although I did modify it a bit from the original, it is still mostly the same.

Tortillas
3 cups flour (I use 100% white whole wheat flour)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/3 cup butter (5 1/3 tablespoons)
1 cup warm water
Mix together dry ingredients.  Cut in butter.  Add water and mix.  Roll into circles and bake on medium heat griddle.

This made ~10 tortillas for me this time.  I froze the extras and so far, they thaw fine. :)

Recipe 2: Black Beans

This recipe is still in process as I've only made it twice and am not really working from any recipe at all-just making things up as I go along.  Thus, this is subject to much change!

So far:

Sort and rinse 2 cups of black beans

Cover beans with several inches of water and allow to soak overnight.

Drain and rinse beans, pour beans into crock pot.

Cover beans with several inches of water

Season to taste-options are endless! :)

I use:

2 teaspoons chili powder

2 teaspoons cumin

2 teaspoons onion powder

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

Cook until beans are tender and desired consistency.  Once beans are soft, add salt to taste.  I use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon salt for this amount of beans. I have been cooking the beans on a combination of low and high for several hours.  I let them get so soft that they look like refried beans but I don't have to mash them or do anything with them.  Easiest way to make refried beans from scratch!   

These freeze and thaw very well!  

Notes: you can probably cook more beans at a time, but they spatter so much steam the way it is I've been afraid to try a larger batch.  Because they spatter steam, make sure nothing that can be damaged by water is near the crock pot.

Home made black beans!