Pizza and homemade tortillas

Hello, Mandy (and anyone else who might happen to read this.)! Here is the blog I told you I would give a whirl. So, I was going to take pictures of what I've made the last couple of days, but I forgot before I ate it...except the tortillas. My favorite pizza dough recipe is Betty Crocker, and I had some cheese and tomatoes, so I had my sister and another friend over for margerita pizza. Yum!

Pizza dough:

1/2 cup warm water
2-1/4 tsp yeast
1 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 TBSP olive oil
all purpose flour (add as much as you need to make it not too heavy, but not too sticky.)

Make sure you dissolve the yeast in the water with a little bit of flour before you add the rest of the ingredients. Let rise, roll out, place on pizza stone over a sprinkling of cornmeal, "decorate" it, and pop it in the preheated oven at 425 'til edges are brownish.

Next, I ran out of salad dressing, and didn't want to pay for a creamy dressing this week. My mom had a resolution for this, made of what everyone should have right in their fridge. It's basically Thousand Island dressing. Sweet and creamy dressing!

Mom's Thousand Island Dressing:

3 parts mayo
1.5 parts ketchup
1 part milk
sweet pickle relish to taste
salt and pepper to taste.

The last thing I made this week, came out of a memory of my mom making flour tortillas out of Carla Emory's book of Country Living. I have packed mine up for the move, but looked up a recipe online and improvised a bit to make it match what I had in the pantry. A pack of these in the store is like $2-3! Homemade is like 50 cents for 12! Easy, too. I have 8 left in my fridge.

Tortillas - makes 12:

2 cups all purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp baking powder
1TBSP shortening
3/4 cup cold water

Divide dough into 12 pieces, roll out each piece to very thin, throw in an ungreased nonstick pan. When the top side bubbles (takes only about 10-20 seconds), flip it over (you can probably just do it with your fingers. I did.). Leave for about 10 more seconds...it is done! Don't leave too long. They will burn fairly easily.

Anyway, hope you like this...wish I could upload a pic, but I looked around and I have yet to figure out how to do it. Love ya girlie!

Bethany