Definetly not Mary Zubiate quality, but decent to eat, and 2x better than store bought crap… Just slightly better than the uncooked tortillas from Costco…
Borrowed from Homesick Texan, who also borrowed it:
Texas Flour Tortillas (adapted from The Border Cookbook by Cheryl Alters Jamison and Bill Jamison)
Ingredients:
Two cups of all-purpose flour (can make them whole wheat by substituting one cup of whole-wheat flour for white flour)
1 1/2 teaspoons of baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
2 teaspoons of vegetable oil
3/4 cups of warm milk
Method:
Mix together the flour, baking powder, salt and oil.
Slowly add the warm milk.
Stir until a loose, sticky ball is formed.
Knead for two minutes on a floured surface. Dough should be firm and soft.
Place dough in a bowl and cover with a damp cloth or plastic wrap for 20 minutes.
After the dough has rested, break off eight sections, roll them into balls in your hands, place on a plate (make sure they aren’t touching) and then cover balls with damp cloth or plastic wrap for 10 minutes. (It’s very important to let the dough rest, otherwise it will be like elastic and won’t roll out to a proper thickness and shape.)
After dough has rested, one at a time place a dough ball on a floured surface, pat it out into a four-inch circle, and then roll with a rolling pin from the center until it’s thin and about eight inches in diameter. (If you roll out pie crusts you’ll have no problem with this.) Don’t over work the dough, or it’ll be stiff. Keep rolled-out tortillas covered until ready to cook.
In a dry iron skillet or comal heated on high, cook the tortilla about thirty seconds on each side. It should start to puff a bit when it’s done.
Keep cooked tortillas covered wrapped in a napkin until ready to eat.
Can be reheated in a dry iron skillet, over your gas-burner flame or in the oven wrapped in foil.
While you probably won’t have any leftovers, you can store in the fridge tightly wrapped in foil or plastic for a day or so.
Makes eight tortillas.
As a small postscript, since I was on the subject of Zubiates, I wanted to let you all know that it IS a WELL-KNOWN FACT that Orlando Zubiate can kick the ass of his older brother Fernando Zubiate, any day of the week, and sometimes while napping. Orlando just didn’t want to say anything in order to keep Fernando’s ego in check, as the truth surely would have crushed him the same as Orlando’s right hand. Comments are open for anyone with a first hand account of Orlando smashing Fernando’s will to live.
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My second son was born on Jan 23rd. I am so happy that I have cried. Good thing I stopped. Mother and baby are doing fine, all is well. Bless all those who have sent their congratualtions, and thank you to my internal support system. You know who you are.
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Sitting here at a conference, I partcipated in an open conversation titled “Wiki in 24 hours”. During the conversation, I:
- Downloaded MediaWiki, and unzipped it in my Sites directory.
- Logged into MySQL, and created a database and user for the wiki
- Made sure my web server was turned on, then navigated to the wiki home page. It then asked me to fill out the config info necessay, ala WordPress (thanks Alex). Once I saved the config, I needed to move it from the config directory to the root directory, and…
- Profit!
A part of the conversation spawned discussions about how to start a wiki community within a company, and how it succeeds/fails. Together, we just started wiki101.org for discussing and helping with community startups using wiki technology.
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I have been in the (un)fortunate position of negiotation several contracts lately, and I am amazed at the response I get during the negotiation phase of the contract phase.
It seems that a large portion of people refuse to change the text of a contract in negotiation, in favor of trying to convince you that the intent of the contract is NOT what the contract says. They seem to think that is good enough, and the intent will cover us both. The only problem I have with that is two-fold:
- Why in the name of all that is good and holy do you have a f**king contract in the first place, if your intention is not to hold to every word. Why can’t we just handshake and call it good, like my dad and his dad used to do. Oh yeah, because people no longer hold to their word.
- I am signing something that I do not agree to, that can be enforced by law.
When I ask about the first reason, I just get stupid looks, but when I approach the second issue, the answer is ALWAYS that the contract text only matters if things get bad. Guess what, that is the part of the contract that I care the most about!!! When things go south, the contract is the only thing I have to protect me and you, and you are unwilling to allow the protection in a mutual manner when you refuse to change the contract. Give me a freakin’ break.
I have had no less than 5 of such incidents in the last 4 months. I am soo lucky.
I think a good bit of the ACTUAL reason for these refusals to negotiate is the fear of having to go talk to the lawyer again. That is the only reasoning I can come up with that is anywhere near sanity.
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