Tortilla's - Make them yourself.. seriously!

I'm totally amazed at how much pre-packaged foods we buy. You can save yourself so much money if you buy bulk flour/corn (mesa) ground up and make your own things. I am going to try out french bread- the pizza and bread recipe really mirrors each other.

For the tortilla I bought a bag of corn meal? ground up corn to be powdered. I'm so elegant with words aren't I. heh.
I put a scoop of it, (comes with directions on the bag) and a scoop of water with a bit of added salt to taste (you don't even have to put salt from what I gather) and mix it like a dough ball and then smash them in my tortilla press (easy easy easy), lay them in a warm ungreased pan and I have floppy tortilla's for stuff in minutes.

I bet this would be fun for the kids to mix! When my boy gets older I know we are going to have a lot of fun in the kitchen. My plan is to make cooking a math thing. Instead of simply putting him in front of a worksheet he will get to make something. He will see how Delicious and Delightful math can be.

When we were in Mexico he would count the numbers in the elevator. We would go from 6th floor (where our apt was) to the 1st floor several times a day. He got to press the 6 and the 1 several times. He was so happy counting and getting to press the button. He is only 2.8 years old and he really has a grasp of his numbers because we just get him involved and exposed to those numbers that are in our life.