Munchie Monday: Quick and Easy Cassava Flour Tortillas

It pleases me when I make something that is universally enjoyed.  This time it was cassava flour tortillas.

These are pretty quick and easy to make.  The hardest thing is finding the cassava flour.  And the arrowroot flour...


Cassava Tortillas

3/4 cup cassava flour
3 Tablespoons arrowroot flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
3 Tablespoons avocado oil...or use a solid shortening
1/2 cup plus 2 Tablespoons warm-ish water

Start your skillet heating, preferably a cast iron skillet heating on medium heat.  After ten minutes raise to medium-high heat when you are almost ready to cook the tortillas.

In a large bowl mix the flours and salt.  Add the oil and stir well with a wooden spoon. If using solid shortening, use your hands to blend together.  Add the warm water and stir with a wooden spoon until the dough forms a ball... it forms really quickly.

Divide into 8 pieces and roll into balls.

You can almost see the tortilla press under the waxed paper.

Place a large piece of waxed paper in your nice new cast iron tortilla press, or place between two sheets of waxed paper and roll out, but not too thin.  Experience will teach you how thin to roll.

Place one at at time on the hot skillet.  Cook 15-30 seconds, until "bubbles" form on top.  Flip over for another 15-30 seconds.

Enjoy as soon as you like.  Yes, they are flexible.  I don't know if they would still be flexible tomorrow because each time I have made them they have been wolfed down in about 5 minutes flat!

Family Photo Friday

Here is a sweet-to-me photo I would like to share:

If I have already posted it,  sorry, but it makes me happy to see this photo which was taken in the living room at Riverbow sometime in late 1951 or early 1951.

Grant Lester Matthew Corwin holding Everett Roland Corwin, me, Barbara Read McIntosh Neill Corwin, and Grant Lester Corwin II.

Another Happy Spring Flower Display

We were visiting a sister in our ward and found these lovely encouraging spring flowers in her front yard.  She has a tiny yard but it is all beautiful.

My thought is that these are grape hyacinths, but I am not certain.  Either way,  they are so sweet and spring-y.

Pink!

We are having the most glorious spring-blossoming trees. I don't know what they are by they are so uplifting.

Their ruffles are so sweet and remind me of old-timey ladies' skirts.

Munchie Monday: Plant-Based Sausage and Bacon!

For years we have occasionally purchased plant-based sausages and one time we bought some fakin bakin which was really really nasty.  That has all changed now!

Julie Hasson has written a book called Vegan Diner.  She also has a website.  I have watched her on YouTube for years off and on.  On Thursday I learned about the book and ordered it.  On Friday it arrived.  Yesterday and today I have made two things:  the country sausages and the smokey soy curls.  They are both delicious!

The sausages ready to steam

The sausage uses vital wheat gluten plus chick pea flour which I made in the Vitamix.  You add spices then shape and steam for 30 minutes.  Delicious!

The sausages here are ready to eat. 

The bacon is made with Soy Curls from Butler Foods.  They are fabulous for all kinds of things.

Here are the Soy Curls ready to "fry" in the cast iron pan.

Here is the bacon ready to eat with maple glaze.

Both of these items are so good it is tempting to just gobble them up.  I will see what the blood sugar and scales tell me tomorrow about how likely that is to happen...

Food Friday: Resurrection Rolls

Our daughter mentioned Resurrection Rolls the other day.  I had heard of them but had forgotten about them.  This seems like a meaningful Easter treat.

There is a story that goes with these rolls if you want to make them with your children or grandchildren.  Read down a ways in this post from YummyHealthyEasy blog to teach the children about the true meaning of Easter. 

The ingredients are simple:

Crescent Roll tube
Large marshmallows
Cinnamon
Sugar
Water or melted butter
Lined baking sheet

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F.

Open crescent rolls and lay out on baking sheet.

Dip large marshmallow in water or melted butter then roll the marshmallow in a bowl of cinnamon sugar. I used 1/3 cup granulated sugar and 1 Tablespoon ground cinnamon that I stirred up very well.

Place the marshmallow in the large end of one crescent roll and start rolling towards the pointed end, being sure to completely enclose the marshmallow in the dough.  PINCH THE DOUGH AROUND THE MARSHMALLOW VERY VERY WELL!  Otherwise it will certainly spew out and be unsightly.

Bake in the preheated oven for 10-15 minutes.  I only baked for 12 minutes but think it would have been better to cook longer to give a sturdier roll.  Or perhaps a burned roll...

The first time I made them I used elderly mini-marshmallows that were all stuck together, thinking it would give the same effect as one large marshmallow.  Not.  Don't do it.  I am tossing the rest of the bag tomorrow. I feel the need to watch the bag a few more times to get it into my head that it was a bad idea to use something that already was a losing proposition...

So, these are unsightly on the pan but hopefully when they are cool they will firm up and not be so nasty looking.  We are going to use them as part of a devotional thought at the mission office today.  We will see how THAT goes.

NOTE TO SELF:  It would probably be better to make homemade crescent rolls dough to make these.  Ersatz crescent rolls really are not very good.   I have not made these rolls but I plan to once I get off the relatively serious flour fast.  (It is not really a totally serious flour fast because when I have tummy troubles and can't eat anything else, a couple of soda crackers can help a little bit...)

If you make these Resurrection Rolls with or for your family, I hope you like them.  A dear friend introduced me to them back in 1972 but she used rolled out dinner roll dough she had made and she did not call them Resurrection Rolls.  Her large family LOVED them.

He is Risen

Easter Presentation 2019

The Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square will be performing an Easter Presentation on Saturday night, April 20 at 7:30 PM  Mountain Time that will stream live.  It will also be available on BYU TV on Easter at 6:00 PM Mountain Time.

THIS LINK HAS ALL THE INFORMATION.ABOUT VIEWING.