Yummy Tortillas!

Tonight for dinner I didn't have any store bought tortillas so decided to make homemade tortillas (it's not like I can run out to the store real quick!). This is something I've been trying to master for sometime. My grandma made the BEST tortillas in the world, and I would love to be able to just come close. No one can beat hers! So, I've used my grandma's recipe, with a little tweaking because her recipe was in "handfuls" and "pinches" and in "just abouts", not quite the way my brain works. I found a similar recipe online through cooks.com. So, now I have actual measurements. They turned out all right, even though their shape came no where near a circle! The kids loved them and it was fun, trying to keep my grandma's tradition alive. I even gave the kids pointers on how they could use their tortilla to scoop their food, like my grandma used to do. It was a little tricky. They almost managed!

As I watched them eat and as I looked at the plate of tortillas, I thought of my grandma. I grinned thinking how proud she would be of her great grandchildren trying to scoop their food with their tortillas. She would have laughed at my inability to make them, but I'm sure it would have made her smile.

So, I will keep making them, keep attempting to form circles, keep teaching the children how to properly scoop and hope that I will be able to keep the tradition alive. My grandma would've liked that!

The girls enjoying their tortillas.

My odd shaped tortillas.

The boys dig in!