I tried to make tortillas on Sunday.

Since I spent a month in a Mexican family of Texas when I was 15 years old, I can’t resist tortillas. When I was with the family, tortillas were my staple food. I loved my host mother’s cooking. It made sense that I bought two or three packs of flour tortillas when I got back Japan from Texas.

In Japan, especially in Toyama where no Mexican restaurants run, I haven’t tried real Mexican foods except my Mexican friends cooked for me a few times. Even for them, it was impossible to find tortillas in Toyama. To entertain me, they used their precious tortillas that brought from Mexico or bought in big cities. We, Mexican friends and I, used to cry “I really miss tortillas!!”

That’s why you can imagine easily I was thrilled when I found “taco set” in Mujirushi store. I invited some Japanese friends to cook tacos. They had heard of “taco”, but didn’t guess what it looked like. Following the direction, I added taco-mix and water and kneaded it. I love kneading. That reminds me of playing with clay that was my favorite when I was a kid. After kneading the dough, we separated it to ten balls, and rolled them. We prepared my favorite filling- cheese, lettuce, and ground beef. I wasn’t able to bake and eat tortillas. But one of my friends who were rolling the ten balls found the tortillas were too small to pack the fillings. They were much smaller than my palm! That was hard corn shell, not flour tortillas I have been longed for. But I didn’t give up. We baked small shell and tried to fill the fillings. Even the shell broke into pieces, we didn’t care. We went on eating fillings wrapped by lettuce. This incident makes me long for tortillas more. I wanna make enchiladas next time.

I love Mexican food!，too.
I love fajitas and quesadillas，too.
And never want to forget tequilla，too!
(Jul 7, 2005 09:08:43 PM)

My ex-Stay mate used to make some taco for me.
Those were very nice.
And I can get tortillas easily but I can't cook so，I miss her tortillas.(Jul 11, 2005 01:08:02 PM)

ola Meggy. is time to lean portuguese...or just pass by my blog to lisen to some music(Jul 27, 2005 03:25:48 AM)