Home-made Tortillas & Vanilla-marinated Oranges! :D

 The weekend was a lot of fun ! Saturday, Theo was working and I was home with my own creative self :P So I decided to prepare a nice dinner with 3 courses for Sunday :) The preparation was the most fun though, because  the new recipes didn't really live up to my high expectations. But that's life, you live and you learn!

So therefore, I'm only gonna share the parts of the dinner that I really liked ! All in all, there were 2 outstanding things that are both going to be made many many times more in my life! And these are:


Home-made Tortillas

(Really a simple and fun thing to make and so much nicer than the ones you buy at the store!)

Ingredients: 250 g flour, 50 g margarine, ½ teaspoon salt, 1.5 dl finger-warm water Optional: Some dried oregano or crushed garlic for additional flavor)


Do: Mix flour and salt. Add the margarine by pinching it into small pieces, then mix it as well as possible. Add the water and form a dough. Leave it in a bowl for 15 minutes covered by a moist kitchen towel. Put some flour on a baking area and divide the dough into small pieces and use a rolling pin to form small tortillas that fit into your frying pan. Fry each tortilla for about 1 - 1,5 minute on each side - Done ! (Don't fry them longer, because then they will become hard and dry and will break when you roll them!) :)
  
Very simple and quick and sooo so nice ! Fill them with whatever you like :)

The second outstanding thing I made was:

Vanilla-marinated Oranges

Ingredients: 4 oranges, ½ vanilla stick, 1,5 dl water, 1 dl sugar
Do: Peel the oranges and use a knife to remove the skin from the wedges. Mix water and sugar in a saucepan. Cut an incision in the vanilla stick and add it to the water. Make sure you squeeze out all the black "dots" from it :P Boil this marinade for 10 minutes and then pour it over the orange wedges. Optional: I added a small bit of orange liqueur (Cointreau) to enhance the flavor even more :) Marinate the oranges for a few hours and serve with some fresh lemon balm for example. Yummie !!!


2 very simple but very tasty recipes that I hope that you will like if you want to try them! Theo and I highly recommend them :)

That was my weekend :P And now I'm gonna start to think about some healthy food for the week because someone should start preparing for summer 2011 :P I'm not a weight-maniac because weight is just a number and as long as you are happy and healthy, that number doesn't matter that much. But even though food is very good, everything needs a good balance! So healthy food it is this week :)

Thanks for reading! Peace :)


- Stef

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