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Homemade Corn Tortilla Recipe

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Tortillas are such a versatile food. You can fill them with just about anything, from cheeses, to veggies and meats, to fruit. They can replace bread in so many recipes. I always have them on hand for snacks and quick meals.

I’ve found that making them at home is pretty inexpensive, and quite a bit of fun as well. My kids love to join in on making them, manning the griddle while they brown. What are you going to stuff yours with?

Homemade Corn Tortilla Recipe

Ingredients

1 C corn masa flour (found in the international section of most grocers)
1/4 t salt
3/4 C lukewarm water

Instructions

Mix the flour and salt in a bowl. Slowly add the water, stirring to form a dough.
Place the dough on a clean work surface sprinkled with a little flour, and knead the dough until smooth. Cut into 8 pieces. Cover the dough with a damp towel.
Heat a griddle or flat fry pan to 400 degrees F or medium high.

Take one piece of dough. Form it into a disk and place it on a piece of parchment paper. Cover with another piece and roll out the dough, working out from the center in all directions. When the dough is very thin, peel it from the parchment.

Place the rolled dough on the griddle or pan. Cook until dry and brown, about 45 seconds. Flip and cook the other side until brown, about another 45 seconds.
Remove to a plate and repeat with the rest of the dough.
Top and fill as you like!

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A Handmade Birthday Party (Frugal Ways to Decorate)

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This wonderful post was submitted by a “Raining Hot Writer” (read more about how you can write a frugal and helpful article and get paid for it here). Thanks to Ellie Bluebell’s House for these ideas and so many more….What creative ides these are! My favorite is the paper chains – definitely using that one!

Enjoy…

A child’s first birthday is sweet, momentous, and exciting… and also noteworthy because it’s the last birthday party you will have full creative control over. After the first birthday, you’ll be filling requests for SpongeBob SquarePants themes, skating parties, and the ultra dreaded eight eight-year-olds sleepover. So have your druthers with number one!

I was very excited about making decorations for Natalie’s first birthday, and I proceeded to Martha Stewart out, big time. I love those penant-flag banners you’ve seen popping up at cute places, like the Paper Source, and decided I could make one myself, much longer than the kit would allow, and for less than they were charging. My craft closet was already full of the supplies, after all.

I also thought of making paper chains, like we used to do as kids to count down for Christmas. Those things give you a lot of bang for your buck, time and materials-wise! I got five designs of scrapbooking paper (two double sided and one single sided) and started cutting them into 2″ x 6″ strips with my awesome paper cutter, the Handy Guillotine (that is it’s actual product name. I would have bought it anyway but I delight in calling it the Handy Guillotine every time I use it. Best $19 I have ever spent). Then all you need is a stapler, and you’re in paper-chain-making business.

Total cost of 16′ of paper chains, $4 (for scrapbooking paper).

Now onto the festive penant-flag banners…

I will admit I totally eyeballed cutting these, as I tend to do. With paper birthday decorations, eyeball it. I used an Exacto knife, a metal straight edge, and a cutting mat. I borrowed the shape/design from Paper Source’s kit, with a foldover tab on the top of the flag to wrap around the banner string.

Then I folded each flag’s tab over my natural colored yarn and secured it with craft glue.

Total cost for 24′ of penant flag banner, $2.50 for the yarn (since I had everything else already). Definitely a savings over the Paper Souce kit, of which I’d have needed two.

I think the thing most people get excited about for first birthdays is the baby’s first cake experience. The guests, anyway. They want to see smashing, grabbing, throwing, and sugar rushes. As a mom, I was thinking, once she tastes frosting, my homemade sweet potatoes are history! She’s gonna get frosting in her hair/on the walls/in her ears/on the dog/inside the heat registers!

But what are you going to do – deny your child cake for 18 years? It’s one of those “feel the fear and do it anyway” things.

It’s yellow cake, from a mix, with white frosting, from a tub. That’s the actual name of the flavor: White. A drop of red food coloring, and some sparkly pink sprinkles brought it up to Very First Birthday Cake status.

So for the rest of the guests… cuppycakes!

Coconut and Birthday Cake flavors. I used a semi-homemade approach to these, and doctored up a white cake mix (again, how is “White” a flavor?) with coconut milk and some other things as recommended by this recipe on Allrecipes.com.

Total cost of cake and 36 cupcakes, $16 (including fancy $4 sprinkles and $2 candle from Mrs Cook’s).

Best Homemade Garlic Pasta Sauce Recipe! (SO Delicious)

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I have to tell all of you….this is the BEST pasta sauce you will ever have (in my opinion 😉 ). It is SO incredibly delicious and I was raised eating it. My Mom was the one who taught me how to create this wonderful sauce and I make it all the time. I don’t know about you but I don’t like canned red sauce….at all. I don’t like pizza sauce that much either. Well, this sauce is much different and I’m telling you, you HAVE to try this at least once.

Your house will smell SO yummy too….it’s AMAZING~

Can you tell this is like my favorite meal to make…..ever. 😛

P.S. – this is also great because it fascinates all taste buds (picky and not picky ones)…anyone will eat it, including the kiddos.

Here ya go:

Best Homemade Garlic Pasta Sauce Ever!

Serves 3-4

Ingredients:

Garlic – about 10-12 cloves

3 (15 oz cans) of Hunts tomato sauce (This is super important….in my opinion, it needs to be Hunts. I have tried other brands, organic included and although it still turns out fantastic, it doesn’t taste the same…so Hunts it is!).

1 bag of pasta (you could do more if your family eats a lot of pasta) we used Whole Wheat organic and this sauce is so yummy it masks the funky taste of the whole wheat. 😉

Olive Oil

Cumin

Oregano

Parsley flakes

Directions:

1 – Add about 1/4 inch olive oil to the bottom of a small to medium pan (sorry, I never measure this but I’d say it’s a little less than 1 cup)

2 – Heat olive oil

2 – Add garlic to olive oil and let simmer for about 5-10 minutes so you get the flavor of the garlic (I usually smash them a little to release the juices)

3 – Do NOT burn the garlic, it will turn a little brown but you don’t want to burn it.

4 – Remove the “cooked” garlic and throw away….don’t worry, the flavor will still be there, in the olive oil

5 – Add the 3 cans of tomato sauce (remember, Hunts!)

6 – Again, I’m sorry I do not measure the seasoning but it’s pretty easy…check out the image below to see about how much. What’s great is you can easily add more about 10 minutes after it’s been cooking…just taste it and see what you think.

7 – Put it on medium to low heat and let simmer.

8 – Cook your pasta now while your sauce is marinating with all the flavors.

9 – When the pasta is done, your sauce should be done as well…taste test and enjoy!

Easily print this recipe below:

Best Homemade Garlic Pasta Sauce Recipe! (SO Delicious)

Ingredients

Garlic – about 10-12 cloves
3 (15 oz cans) of Hunts tomato sauce (This is super important….in my opinion, it needs to be Hunts. I have tried other brands, organic included and although it still turns out fantastic, it doesn’t taste the same…so Hunts it is!).
1 bag of pasta (you could do more if your family eats a lot of pasta) we used Whole Wheat organic and this sauce is so yummy it masks the funky taste of the whole wheat. 😉
Olive Oil
Cumin
Oregano
Parsley flakes

Instructions

– Add about 1/4 inch olive oil to the bottom of a small to medium pan (sorry, I never measure this but I’d say it’s a little less than 1 cup)
– Heat olive oil
– Add garlic to olive oil and let simmer for about 5-10 minutes so you get the flavor of the garlic (I usually smash them a little to release the juices)
– Do NOT burn the garlic, it will turn a little brown but you don’t want to burn it.
– Remove the “cooked” garlic and throw away….don’t worry, the flavor will still be there, in the olive oil
– Add the 3 cans of tomato sauce (remember, Hunts!)
– Again, I’m sorry I do not measure the seasoning but it’s pretty easy…check out the image below to see about how much. What’s great is you can easily add more about 10 minutes after it’s been cooking…just taste it and see what you think.
– Put it on medium to low heat and let simmer.
– Cook your pasta now while your sauce is marinating with all the flavors.
– When the pasta is done, your sauce should be done as well…taste test and enjoy!

Thanks, Mom! 🙂