MK and Mapleme

stoneycakes

How did you reheat your breakfast burritos?  I feel like someone asked this question recently, but I never saw the answer.  I hate it when you microwave a burrito and the tortilla gets all hard.  I'm thinking about steaming them.  But I don't want it to take forever.

ElleBeeDub

You could always steam it in the microwave... Just wrap it in a damp cloth before heating. At least... that's what we always did in college

stoneycakes

I steam flour tortillas before I use them.  They don't get soggy, just really flexible.  A steamed homemade tortilla is the bomb.  The store bought ones don't hold up quite as well.

stoneycakes

I hate you just a little bit for having access to fresh tortillas that you don't have to make yourself

Mandmeesh

I want homemade tortillas. Is the press necessary?

stoneycakes

I make my flour tortillas with a rolling pin.  Maybe it's my dough, but I wonder if a press would even work very well.  I think it needs to be a rolling pin.  I make my corn tortillas by pressing them out with the back of flat bottomed glass dish.

ETA: Or maybe I'm crazy and they would be even more tender if I used a press.  Hmmmmm...

ElleBeeDub

I use a rolling pin for flour too. I think you can use a press, but it has to be more of a roller(?) like for pasta. You can't use a press like a hamburger press.

ElleBeeDub

I thought those were just for corn tortillas? I could be totally wrong on this

stoneycakes

@Mapleme, you can get low tech wooden presses for between $30 and $75.

unaveragejane

@Mapleme - Do you have your beer goggles on today? The DoughXpress is doing nothing for me. On the other hand, I would splurge for this very pretty kitchen accessory.

stoneycakes

Mapleme said:

@unaveragejane‌ he is definitely allowed to press my tortillas. Roll my burritos? Warm my buns?

Make you a banana sandwich?

unaveragejane

Yeah, I just noticed that, too. Craaaaap.

ElleBeeDub

I guess the only time I've seen tortillas "commercially" made was at a restaurant that we used to go to all the time (they were like Krispy Kreme, where you could watch the tortillas being made fresh while you waited on a table). They had a giant rolling press, so I guess I always figured that was the only way to press a tortilla

zaraceligon

You can also use a plate,or a small cutting board. It's not really necessary to use a presser.

freezorburn

I miss good Mexican food. I can make a decent carnitas in the slow cooker, but it's hard to find good flour tortillas here. I've been thinking about making them from scratch.

zaraceligon

freezorburn said:

I miss good Mexican food. I can make a decent carnitas in the slow cooker, but it's hard to find good flour tortillas here. I've been thinking about making them from scratch.

I haven't made carnitas for so long, how do you made them. I usually put orange, milk and garly. I let the meet marinated for one night then I put them on the crock pot.

freezorburn

@zaraceligon I think I used this recipe : https://allrecipes.com/recipe/slow-cooker-carnitas/ It doesn't have orange but I have seen other recipes where you squeeze two halves of an orange over the meat and then put the, in the pot with the meat.

TJ1979

Mapleme said:

freezorburn said:

I miss good Mexican food. I can make a decent carnitas in the slow cooker, but it's hard to find good flour tortillas here. I've been thinking about making them from scratch.

Me too. Every time we're in California DH and OD on Mexican food. There have been some improvements here recently, but when I first moved to VT the only "Mexican" restaurant in town was self professed "Tex-Mex" and had eggplant Parmesan on their menu.

As a Texican, I am appalled! I went to a "tex mex" place in jersey once that used velveeta as queso. Sadness.

ElleBeeDub

Ok, this post is now officially making me sad. I threw a fiesta for some friends in college, and one of my friends had to ask me what the orange dip (queso) was. I gave her a hug and told her to eat more.

Mandmeesh

Velveeta is an abomination to the food world. Eww

stoneycakes

Mandmeesh said:

Velveeta is an abomination to the food world. Eww

I understand how you can feel this way, but I like it once in awhile.  Maybe because I grew up with it.  Goes well with beer

unaveragejane

I can't stand Velveeta or Kraft Singles; however, for some reason I'm dying to try the really cheap cheese that they use at Wahlburgers. It starts with a C...commisary? condiment? communist? I don't remember. Apparently DH ate a lot of it growing up, and he said it really is amazing to melt on a burger.

Cindergurl

I know being a Wisconsinite I could get kicked out of the state for saying this buuuut... I am so sick of any cheese. Dh works at Sargento and is constantly bringing home cheese I have a freezer full of it.
Lol rant over.

Mandmeesh

Cindergurl said:

I know being a Wisconsinite I could get kicked out of the state for saying this buuuut... I am so sick of any cheese. Dh works at Sargento and is constantly bringing home cheese I have a freezer full of it.
Lol rant over.

Please send me some!!!! @Cindergurl‌

TJ1979

I miss cheese.

YellowLily2013

Eh, who needs cheese when you can eat BACON!!!

TJ1979

It's really a toss up for me yellow.