Just for fun

I don't get a lot of pictures taken of me, but I was in a goofy mood the other day and took a few of myself just for the heck of it. A couple of them turned out alright, so I thought I'd share.


Hope your monitors are still intact :D

Adventures in Tortilla Making

Well, we go through a LOT of tortillas around these parts and based on the average 20 ingredient list of the store bought tortillas here, they're probably not the best for you. So, I figured it was high time I start making my own. I recently bought a little cast iron griddle which is ideal for frying up these little buggers, so here's how it went down:

My stove seems to run a little on the hot side, so I had to turn the dial to just barely past 4 to have the pan hot enough but not TOO hot.

I mixed the ingredients: (Recipe from Hillbilly Housewife) 4 Cups Whole Wheat Flour, 1.5 tsp salt, 1.5 tsp baking powder, 1/3 cup coconut oil or lard, 1-1.25 cups of water (I used a bit more than that).
Then: Stir the dough with a fork until it makes a cohesive ball. Add more water if it's too dry. Be careful not to add too much though. Kneed dough approx. 20 times and then let it rest for about 10 min in the bowl. Then form into 10-12 equal balls of dough. Roll each ball into a bit of flour.


Place dough onto wax paper or well-floured surface. Roll each ball into a 6-7 inch in circle getting them as thin as possible.











Loosen tortilla from surface and flop into a dry hot skillet.








Cook about 30 seconds until the underside is dry and has a few brown spots. Repeat on the other side and then transfer to plate.











Not long later you've got a hot plate full of delicious, healthy tortillas. It truly doesn't take long at all, and it's pretty easy, even as a beginner!!

I wanna help too!!

How many kids does it take to cook spaghetti? How many stools can you fit side by side in front of a stove?
Oh how empty my kitchen will be years from now when all my sweet little ones are grown and have homes of their own. Lord, let me enjoy every minute of their growing up years!!

Interesting Find

So, thanks to a couple of people on some forums I frequent (can we say that 3 times fast?), I found a site called swagbucks.com. It's pretty cool!! If you haven't heard the word, here's the fifty cent tour, if you will.

Basically, the idea is that you do all of your searches off of their system, instead of going to google or yahoo, or that sort of thing. Their search engine is based off of google, so it's just as powerful and quick, but by using theirs, you get rewarded *big grin*. Here and there as you do searches, you will get awarded "swagbucks" which you can save up and trade in on "stuff" or gift cards to a variety of different places (common places), like Amazon, to name just one. Also, if you use their links to go to their support sites (like Walmart and Amazon and a zillion others) and you make a purchase, you get 1 swagbuck for every $5 you spend. 40 Swagbucks will get you a $5 giftcard to Amazon. I've only had an account for a week and have only done a minimal amount of searches and I already have 11 swagbucks ;) Pretty easy. Most of us stay at home Mom types do a lot of searches for this and that, so this is an easy way to get a little extra somethin' once in a while.

So... if you read this and it strikes your fancy, if you'd be so kind as to click the link that is to follow, you'll help me along in my swagbuck collecting by using me as a referal.
http://swagbucks.com/?cmd=sb-register&rb=478212

Happy shopping!!