A great youtube cooking video: Sin City Breakfast Tacos (homemade tortillas!)
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luisa_calif
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Oh, MY MY! (fanning myself) I watched that video ... isn't he just "el hombre"? I'm quite
hungry now and maybe not just for breakfast...ha!
Truly, though...check out how he makes those tortillas...what dexterity! Yes, the ending comments are QUITE noteworthy! (And I HAVE seen Sin City numerous times...my middle son's favorite movie, just about!) Thank you for posting that link! Luisa, you BAD girl! hee!
hungry now and maybe not just for breakfast...ha!
Truly, though...check out how he makes those tortillas...what dexterity! Yes, the ending comments are QUITE noteworthy! (And I HAVE seen Sin City numerous times...my middle son's favorite movie, just about!) Thank you for posting that link! Luisa, you BAD girl! hee!
luisa_calif
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there are other "take-offs" at YouTube that try to duplicate this demo...
not successfully I might add, but they do have lists of ingredients. One pair of teenage guys really did try to cook the Puerco Pibil but couldn't get anatto seeds so left it out!
It's like the MAIN seasoning! They wanted to duplicate the red color that anatto seeds would have added but didn't have red so they used BLUE! Yuck! There was another one that was more instructive & used a turkey roasting bag instead of the banana leaves, it cooked faster but the banana leaves was WAY cooler!
not successfully I might add, but they do have lists of ingredients. One pair of teenage guys really did try to cook the Puerco Pibil but couldn't get anatto seeds so left it out!
It's like the MAIN seasoning! They wanted to duplicate the red color that anatto seeds would have added but didn't have red so they used BLUE! Yuck! There was another one that was more instructive & used a turkey roasting bag instead of the banana leaves, it cooked faster but the banana leaves was WAY cooler!
Here's a link to a printed version of the recipe....(more)....
This is actually a link to the Internet
Movie DataBase page that reviews this
short film.
Click on the link, and scroll down to
see the print version of the recipe.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399740/
This is actually a link to the Internet
Movie DataBase page that reviews this
short film.
Click on the link, and scroll down to
see the print version of the recipe.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0399740/
and here's the recipe for the homemade tortillas >>
Flour Tortillas
(From Robert Rodriguez's Ten Minute Cooking School)
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (NOT SODA)
1/4 cup softened unsalted butter or lard (If you only have salted butter, just skip the half teaspoon of salt, I suppose) – NOTE: on the YouTube video he used 1/2 butter, 1/2 lard
Combine dry ingredients! Mix them together with a fork or something until nice and combined.
Cut in butter until it's a cornmeal texture- just use your hands instead of a fork- it'll go about ten times faster. Basically, it should be able to clump together.
Add 3/4 cup of warm water!
Knead until smooth.
Make 8-10 golf ball sized balls with the dough- probably slightly larger than actual golf balls, so if you're a golfer like me you can just sort of ignore that comparison.
Lay on floured surface and cover with a damp cloth or paper towel. Let sit for twenty minutes or probably just as long as you need to get the filling ready or skillet heated.
HEAT A TEFLON PAN TO MEDIUM OR MEDIUM-HIGH. MAKE IT NICE AND HOT.
Flatten the dough into little discs, then roll out.
Drop on pan until they start to rise (yay for baking powder!) , then flip. If you have the right kind of pan, they should not stick at all. It should be about a minute and a half for each side if the pan is properly heated.
Place on plate or make something until you're done! I don't even know.
You can keep these proooobably for about a week in the fridge, though you'll probably be done with them in a day. To soften them up, reheat them on the teflon pan.
Flour Tortillas
(From Robert Rodriguez's Ten Minute Cooking School)
INGREDIENTS:
2 cups flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder (NOT SODA)
1/4 cup softened unsalted butter or lard (If you only have salted butter, just skip the half teaspoon of salt, I suppose) – NOTE: on the YouTube video he used 1/2 butter, 1/2 lard
Combine dry ingredients! Mix them together with a fork or something until nice and combined.
Cut in butter until it's a cornmeal texture- just use your hands instead of a fork- it'll go about ten times faster. Basically, it should be able to clump together.
Add 3/4 cup of warm water!
Knead until smooth.
Make 8-10 golf ball sized balls with the dough- probably slightly larger than actual golf balls, so if you're a golfer like me you can just sort of ignore that comparison.
Lay on floured surface and cover with a damp cloth or paper towel. Let sit for twenty minutes or probably just as long as you need to get the filling ready or skillet heated.
HEAT A TEFLON PAN TO MEDIUM OR MEDIUM-HIGH. MAKE IT NICE AND HOT.
Flatten the dough into little discs, then roll out.
Drop on pan until they start to rise (yay for baking powder!) , then flip. If you have the right kind of pan, they should not stick at all. It should be about a minute and a half for each side if the pan is properly heated.
Place on plate or make something until you're done! I don't even know.
You can keep these proooobably for about a week in the fridge, though you'll probably be done with them in a day. To soften them up, reheat them on the teflon pan.