Homemade Tortillas

It seems we are in a major rut routine when it comes to Supper. We HAVE to eat Tacos every week...this is not something I prefer, however when 3 people will clean their plates and it only takes 10 minutes to cook... I give in! I have to be in the most bland family ever! Marc will throw away any food if it has a small piece of onion or pepper. Mason drives me bonkers with his meals...he won't eat soups, chillis, casseroles, anything topped with cheese and hardly any condiments! BTW, I'm the condiment queen...Maddie eats like a mouse...tid bits here and there every 30 minutes (I know, it's my responsibility to teach them to sit down and eat a full meal 3 times a day so they will eat all of their meal, however... I would have to listen to her persistent squeaky voice begging for food all day long!! And I just can't!)This is horrible but this is how we do Tacos...I cook our ground beef and make my own seasoning. WAY better than the store packets and no extra junk is added! Here's the recipe: We MUST have corn on the side and cheese dip...otherwise I better not even think about making tacos. And we have to have hard taco shells and tortilla chips. Mason eats 3 hard shell tacos with meat & picante sauce only with corn on the side, Maddie has a deconstructed plate with meat, cheese, sour cream, and corn...and maybe a shell or chips but she never puts it all together! Weird I know! Marc throws on his chips Meat, cheese dip & corn....yuck. Now the way to do it is like me... Make a huge taco salad with EVERYTHING but no corn! I'm the queen of condiments so I like to have cheese dip, lettuce, cheese, jalapeños, tomatoes, onion, beans, verde salsa & sour cream!  Well now that Mister Marshall has arrived I have had to stop my awesome eating habits! No Dr. Pepper, Mt. Dew, onions, peppers, rotel (that means no cheese dip), broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower and I'm thinking garlic is causing gas pains too. (This is where a really sad face should be added!!) So when it comes to Tacos, I really dread it! This last week I decided to change things up a bit and make from scratch some Tortillas that I saw on Pioneer Woman. They are very time consuming but very worth it! Here's how:

• 2-1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder

• 2-1/2 cups All-purpose Flour

• 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt

• 1/2 cup Lard Or Vegetable Shortening

• 2 Tablespoons (additional) Lard Or Vegetable Shortening

• 1 cup Hot Water

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in a large bowl. Stir together. Add spoonfuls of lard or shortening (use 1/2 cup PLUS 2 tablespoons), then use a pastry cutter to combine the ingredients. Cut mixture until it resembles coarse crumbs. Slowly pour in hot water, stirring to bring mixture together. Lightly knead dough 30 to 40 times, or until it becomes a cohesive ball of dough and is less sticky. Cover with a tea towel and allow dough to rest for at least an hour. Roll into ping pong size balls, place on a tray, cover with a tea towel, and allow to rest for another 20 to 30 minutes. I ended up using two ball size per tortilla. I didn't feel like tgey were large enough. When you're ready to make the tortillas, heat griddle or cast iron pan. One by one, roll out balls of dough until very, VERY thin. Throw tortillas (one by one) onto the griddle. Cook on each side for 20 to 30 seconds, removing while tortillas are still soft but slightly brown in spots. Remove and stack tortillas, and cover with a towel to keep warm. Serve immediately or allow to cool before storing tortillas in a container. To warm, nuke tortillas in the microwave, or wrap in foil and warm in the oven. Your tortillas will shrink up while cooking each side so make sure you thin it out as much as possible! 

So yea, after an hour in a half of waiting for this dough and pressing out 16 tortillas.... We sit down to eat and NO ONE but me grabs one! Did I mention my family doesn't "Do" change!?!? So in all my efforts to make a change, it didn't go over to well. However, Marshall had a tummy ache free night and I guess that is all that matters! 
I wish I would have kept the left overs because they would have made great Quesadillas or even Sopapillas!! Next time...oh well!