Meat Sauce

Some forewarning - this is going to take most of a day. The great news is, you can get a good 5 meals out of it, and its pretty hard to actually mess it up. To start, this is all based off of a Good Eats recipe (found here). The only major change is that broth was used instead of wine.

The net result is a very rich, hearty sauce - good enough to eat by itself (when you run out of pasta on your plate), which is unusual (for me, at least). The only drawbacks are the whole 'takes a day' deal (oh, and the giant mess).

Homemade Tortillas & Fajitas

 

So I read online that making tortillas yourself is hella easy... so let's do that.

The ingredients are deceptively simple -- masa de harina (corn flour), water, and salt. Masa itself is corn that has been treated with lime and water (not the fruit, like, chemical lime) then washed (lime is totally not edible) and ground into a flour -- you can't substitute starch or meal for it (look near the tortillas/salsa section for it, or barring that the ethnic foods section).

To actually mix the dough, the flour itself will probably have the ratio you are supposed to use on the bag -- it's going to wind up being like a 2:1 flour/water ratio (again, consult the bag or google it). Also it uses salt, nearly forgot (like a pinch, like all doughs).