NS is a BIG fan of Mexican food. BIG. While we were in Big Bend, I picked up a book called Taco Table. In there is a recipe (or three) for homemade tortillas. The one I was most intrigued by was the recipe that involved mesquite flour. But I couldn't find any in the grocery stores I shopped. Saguaro National Park's bookshop had some, so now it was time to give it a whirl.
Our trailer kitchen is fairly tiny. We have two drawers for cooking and eating utensils, along with any hot pads and trivets we may want. Not a lot of space, which means not a lot of stuff. The recipe is straightforward, but it does require rolling out the tortillas. I don't have a rolling pin. But I do have a bottle of vinegar.
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| Rolling out Tortillas |
The bottle is not really a cylinder, though. It's a bit decorative, so it is just slightly larger at the top, narrower at the bottom. It worked well enough. The recipe got eaten all up (pretty much), with people coming back for thirds, so it was a success, but most people agreed that they were different, and much better with food than on their own.
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| Cooking |
We brought in the dutch oven and cooked stovetop with the dutch oven lid. It worked well. Now, I ended up with breathing problems something fierce. Spent a lot of time coughing, and hours upon hours of wheezing. Am I allergic to mesquite, or was it just a particularly bad night in the desert? I'm not sure, but I did double dose my meds again. I'm sure that's just fine.
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