Home made tortillas (recipe will be posted soon)

For this, you will need a tortilla press or you can do it just the old fashioned way. . . with a rolling pin. I have a plastic tortilla press which I hate, this metal one would work much better.

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Rice Pudding

1 cup of white long grain rice
1 can of evaporated milk
1 can of sweetened condensed milk
1 stick of cinnamon (broken)
2-3 cups of water

Add the rice to the water and let it cook until tender, not too tender. Add the can of condensed milk with two more cans of water (fill up the same can twice and add that water to the mixture). It should be somewhat watery. Bring to a boil and and then add the evaporated milk and the cinnamon until it comes to a boil. Tad ah! You now have perfect, delicious rice pudding. It is supposed to be a little watery but as it cools it will thicken.

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f you have any problems just email me: edithbusey@gmail.com

Traditional Mexican Fried Rice

Sorry this picture is kinda weird
Here you can see the difference when using the actual
tomato vs. the canned tomato sauce/diced. The bottom
one is more orange than the top due to the fact that on the
bottom I used the actual tomato.

2 cups of water
2 roma tomatoes (tip below, #3)
1/4 of a large onion or half of a small onion
1 tsp. of salt
1 cup of rice
1 1/2 tsp. of oil
2-3 dashes of garlic powder or 1/4 of a garlic clove

In the blender combine the water, tomatoes, garlic, salt, onion,water and blend. Set aside

Add oil to skillet, let it get warm. Add rice to skillet and fry the rice a little bit until brown (not too dark).

Add tomato mixture into the skillet (with rice), bring to a boil on high heat.

Once it starts boiling bring heat down to medium low or about a 3 or 4 setting.

Put lid on skillet and let rice simmer until cooked through.

Tip #1
You need to keep checking on it. Depending on how high the burner is, the water may evaporate too quickly. If you think that the water is almost gone and the rice doesn't look cooked all the way through, you may need to add a little bit more water.

Tip #2
You can also add some of the following vegetables or meats for a little more pizzaz:
Canned or frozen corn
diced potatoes
canned or frozen green beans
diced ham
shredded chicken

These need to be added at the same time as the tomato mixture so that it will settle with the rice.

Tip #3
You can replace the roma tomatoes with 1 and a half of a large tomato, diced canned tomatoes, or tomato sauce, as long as everything mixed together is 2 cups. Using diced canned tomatoes or tomato sauce will give it a much redder look. Without it, it will turn out more orange. It's okay though, whatever you prefer.

Tip #4
You don't want the tomato mixture to be too think. This will cause it to not cook right or equally. The tomato mixture should be watery, but not too watery. What you could do is add half of the can and the rest of water, see how that turns out. :)

Tip #5
Make sure that the skillet you use is kinda of think, if it is too thin the rice will turn out kinda mushy. You don't want this b/c then it doesn't look appealing.

Good luck! If you have any problems or questions please email me.

edithbusey@gmail.com

The Art of Food

For a long time I have been wanting to do this. I don't know how this will turn out, but hopefully it will. I enjoy cooking, I just don't know how long I can keep this up for. We'll see. I already have a couple recipes I would like to share, I hope you enjoy!