So 2nd Man made some flour tortillas and sent me to the farm with a couple for a snack after mowing...
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| Flour tortilla |
When I was done mowing and sitting on the porch with a glass of iced tea, I put the ziplock bag with them on the porch railing. I left it there for a bit in the sunshine. The bag puffed up and when I opened it, they were hot like you just took them off the stovetop. It's kind of neat to see that. This makes us think it might be fun to experiment with a solar oven someday, we certainly have the heat for it!
I ate the first one with some butter and of course it was wonderful. Then I remembered that when I was mowing, I saw a ripe fig on the little fig bush we have.
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| Fresh fig |
I pulled it off and sliced it up...
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| Figs in a flour tortilla |
...and I put it in on the other tortilla and rolled it up. Oh my, it was so good. The slightly salty nature of the tortilla and the delicate sweetness of the fig was a brilliant combination. We might have to explore that further with future fig recipes.
2nd Man made some delicious-looking tortillas!
ReplyDeleteGreat idea to use solar energy to heat them up.
The fig in a tortilla - mmm!
What variety of fig is that? It looks different than the Brown Turkey figs I have.
He's working on his "tortilla hand" ha. They are delicious. I LOVE flour tortillas. Hey the sun was hot and it worked great. Well it's a fig tree I planted in a random location a few years back. It's the "Texas Everbearing Fig" variety. But it's in clay soil and has always been stunted. Part of the plan for new fruit tree is a fig that we can plant IN a raised bed with proper soil etc. But you can't find fig trees this year after the freeze. Might have to wait until next year. But it was very good. Small, but good.
DeleteHumm something I’ve never made….next on my bucket list x
ReplyDeleteFlour tortillas are ubiquitous here in Texas. Essential to Mexican and TexMex cuisine. Once he gets his perfected, I'll post his recipe. Flour, fat, salt and water. Seems like it shouldn't be complicated and it's not but it requires just the right ratios or they become crackers or more like bread, ha. They are wonderful though. One of my favorite comfort foods.
DeleteSolar cooking would be fun for an experiment. When I was in grad school, I carried a lunch in a plastic dish. At break, I would take it out of my little personal cooler and put it on the dash. After class I had to drive 12 miles to another class. I had my dinner piping hot nd ready to eat between classes. I was grateful for the sun.
ReplyDeleteI love figs!
It's wild how that works isn't it? What a great idea for you to have a hot meal ready. And yes, figs are so good. This little "bush" we have has never done well but we'll get a handful every once in awhile. I hope to plant a new one "on purpose" in the right kind of soil, etc.
DeleteGood thinking by letting Mother Nature to heat up your man size tortillas.
ReplyDeleteLOL!!!! Thanks!
DeleteI have seriously debated getting a solar oven. My backyard faces south and would be near perfect for one. Maybe this is the year!
ReplyDeleteWe'd really like to try that but not until we can be out there more often or for longer periods of time (and can go in and cool off, ha).
DeleteWhen doing the Quartzite show,in Arizona. We used to lay out our lunch on the car bonnet (hood),to heat it up. It was hot enough to do that here in Britain ,yesterday.
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That makes sense too! I never thought about that. I could lay something like this on the hood too. It would probably heat up REALLY fast. I heard y'all had a heatwave. That's unusual for you isn't it? Stay cool!!!
DeleteWhen we lived in Mexico, we would often roll up a tortilla with salsa (preferably pico de gallo) and queso seco (feta cheese is similar). I could literally make a meal of that. I follow a blog that talks about cooking in her solar oven quite a bit. https://texashomesteader.com/
ReplyDeleteOh how I love pico and the Mexican crumbling cheese. I could put that on anything. And yes, in a flour toritilla is just darn near perfection. Thanks for the link we will check that out!!!
DeleteI envy your fresh figs. I have a Brown Turkey potted up in the house, but only get a wee tiny one to maturity every once in a while. I keep thinking to try and plant it out in the ground, but it probably wouldn't survive winter since no way I could do the winterizing I've seen some do for them. OTOH, it's not very happy in the pot either :-/
ReplyDeleteFigs can be so divisive, some people love them some hate them. Glad we're on the side of love them, ha. They do grow very well here in SE Texas, but we'll have to watch them if we keep getting these crazy winters.
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