Comments on: Natural born kaler

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 03:30:26 +0000

I, too, have suffered intermittently at the hands of Trader Joe's tortillas. Like the 100% whole wheat variety we tried a couple weeks ago. "Unpalatable" would have been a step up from these things.

Before that, our biggest problem was tortillas stuck together in the bag. Separating them would often tear a hole in one of the tortillas. Just bad quality control somewhere along the line.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 21:17:54 +0000

Um, yeah, I’m not sure I could thaw frozen storebought tortillas within three minutes, much less make them from scratch.

By: Finspot

Finspot — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:38:13 +0000

I hear you on the Trader Joes tortillas. Seems like there are more misses lately than hits over there. As for tacos, what better way to keep the kiddies intrigued. Ours will eat fish, bean, shrimp, pork—whatever, as long as there’s a tortilla wrap involved.

By: mamster

mamster — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:17:42 +0000

Will you be able to whip them out in three minutes? That’s how much time I had.

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:44:32 +0000

That sounds suspiciously like something from a Low Carb menu...

I'm working on becoming good enough at making tortillas so that eventually I can just think to myself "hey, you know what would be good with this dinner? some tortillas" and then whip them out. Right now they're still somewhere in between pasties and homemade chili on the "it's a special day" scale.

By: mamster

mamster — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:47:57 +0000

Ooh, that’s a good idea.

By: Laurel

Laurel — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:06:46 +0000

I had almost the same thing with “pork cookies” last night (leftover jiaozi filling shaped into balls and baked in the oven — too lazy to fry them).