Why did I not know this before?

I absolutely love flour tortillas. The best ones I have ever had were homemade in Honduras. YUM. So thick and delicious. They hardly even compare to the store bought ones.

So... for my first cooking challenge, I decided to make tortillas! I found this recipe by doing a google search for "easy tortilla recipe" (or something along those lines). Even though I have been wanting to do this for a while, I finally got up the courage yesterday. The results... success!

Not only are they delicious, they are so simple and fast! There are only four ingredients--flour, salt, vegetable oil, and water. Basic things, but they come together in a beautiful way.

Note: You will have to experiment with different thicknesses, but I found that I like them fairly thin. Not paper thin, but most of mine I made too thick and then under-cooked a little due to lack of patience. However, even slightly underdone, I would still highly recommend them.

Learning to Cook

I really like the idea of cooking. Food is great, and cooking is fun, plus it is an important life skill. The problem is, I never do it. And, since I've started Pinterest-ing, I've found even more recipes that I want to make! Gah!

Source: http://cookinginstilettos.com/2009/08/09/julieandjulia/

 I really want to come up with some cooking challenge type thing that will help me improve my cooking abilities and keep me accountable. I don't need to be the next Julia Child or anything even remotely close to that. These meals will not be gourmet, but they also will not come straight out of the freezer. At one point I was going to make dinner for my family once a week... that lasted about two weeks. My current thought is that maybe my goal will be to will make a recipe (breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, dessert, whatever) once a week. Unless I have a realllly good excuse not to do it one week. But it would have to be at least twice a month.

I think this would be realistic and allow for lots of freedom while still challenging me. What do you think? Also, if you have any delicious (and fairly easy) recipes to recommend, send them my way!