Tortillas with Beans and Rice

Tortillas are not really that hard to make. They take some time and practice, but they're so good, and so worth it. This recipe is for bleached flour, but I use whole wheat flour and add a little extra water, because whole wheat flour is "thirsty". They're easier to roll out if they're a little softer anyway. I also like to add spices to the dough, and double the salt. I quadruple the recipe and mix it up with my Bosch mixer, although you can mix and knead it by hand. Adding gluten helps if they crack when you wrap them around the filling. The dough is easier to handle if you let it sit for an hour before you cook it. Take a walnut sized ball and roll it out thinly. Toast them on a medium hot pan until they bubble and the bubbles are toasted on each side. They shrink and thicken as they cook. Be careful not to over cook them, but if you do, you just have some tortilla chips!

1 1/2 cups Flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons oil (some folks like lard, shortening, etc.)
1/2 cup warm water

For the filling: Take some of those dried beans you have in food storage and throw them in the crock pot in the morning. Add salt, chili powder and anything else you like for seasonings. We like lentils with black beans. Cook some rice separately on the stove, and enjoy your dinner. This meal is obviously better with cheese, spinach and anything else you like or have fresh on hand. But if you only have these four items in your food storage (beans, wheat, rice, and salt) you can eat a tasty and complete protein for dinner.

Hello Ladies, did you all forget about us :)? The ward's enrichment activities committee will be having a food storage night in May, in order to help prepare us I thought it would be appropriate to have food storage recipes as our next set of recipes. Feel free to post ideas also, these can be anything from how you rotate your food storage, what you store, how you store. Any sort of tip would be great! Please don't forget to to refer to the side and I promise to do better about keeping up to date. I can't wait to get all of your recipes.