I’m not talking about American style Tacos. I’m talking about the Mexican ways to make tacos. This is a recipe that I got from a friend’s mother when I lived in California. Or rather I should say I got it from my friend. Her mother didn’t speak English and my Spanish poor enough that I only catch half of what she said.
When my friend first talked of these tacos, I thought she was nuts, but they are really quite good.
Potato Tacos
10 Corn tortillas
2 big potatoes
Shredded Cheese - Soy cheese or regular of the Jack or cheddar variety.
Garlic
Salt and Pepper
Soy or regular Butter
oil for frying - vegetable or peanut oil
Wrap a hot damp towel around your stack of tortillas and let them sit to warm up - cold tortillas tend to crack.
Skin, chop and boil the potatoes. When done, remove from heat, drain, mash them really well. Add in the soy butter (for smoothness add in what you need) garlic, salt, pepper and finally the cheese. Stir it all in well until the cheese has melted (You may need to heat it up a bit more but not too much you don’t want it to dry out).
Heat your oil in fry pan.
Plop a couple of Tablespoons of potato mix in the center, as you place this in the hot oil, fold it over to form the traditional looking taco. fry on one side until it’s golden and crisp then flip it over. When both sides are done, take it out and drain the oil off. Do this with all your tortillas. I sprinkle a little sea salt on the outside of the tortillas as I remove them from the oil. Eat.
I think they reheat well too. You just need to bake them (instead of using the micro) to get that crispness back.
Red Bird has her wings.
I finished knitting a sleeve and asked what the Boogie Girl thought and she thought it was ok. And that’s when it was decided to knit her a short sleeve sweater. So I ripped out the sleeve and made short sleeves. Now I just need to complete the body.
Let’s start at the top of the mountain and work down….
I’m taking deposits for the new Schacht Ladybug (I’m not asking you to pay for the whole thing up front, just a deposit and you’ll be billed the rest when they arrive early this fall) . She’s too cute with that red wheel and those lovely treadles.
The Hitch Hikers have made their way to the shop
There is new RAVELRY colored fiber and yarn. They will both generate a donation to Ravelry.com. I have Ravelry available in all the fibers and yarns, just go to the custom page and put Ravelry in as a color. You’ll still be generating a donation to Ravelry
Fiberlicious
and the Fingering weight yarn.
I also have new Rustic Silk and a ton of sport weight
Also now - I now have a set of 6 fibery buttons/pins. Check them out HERE
Phew, I think that covers it.
The next update August 9th.
Happy Fibering
The tour is on!
Yeah, I know, it’s been on for a few days now. Not that I’ve watched a single minute of the real tour. Nor do I have any idea who is in the lead. I really joined up for the spinning challenge.
My challenge these days is to find the time. I’m working entirely on the Fleece to FI. Actually I’m still working on Cosmo. I washed Dafka (the blackish one) but I haven’t carded her. I have a new piece of equipment coming and I’m really procrastinating on any more processing until it gets here. Which is hopefully any day now… I know, who am I kidding. It won’t be here until August at the earliest. I must be really really hopeful to think it could be here a month early.
With my challenge to find the time to spin, I’ve been getting in about an hour each night to spin. I finished plying the first skein of the new weight (I had finished a skein of worsted but then changed my mind and wanted fingering weight).
And the ever popular quarter shot:
I meant to quit work early yesterday to spin and I ended up working on the shop update. Hopefully I’ll have it ready for tomorrow.
Not weave weave, but weave in ends.
I didn’t realize that alot of people don’t know how to do this so the ends stay secure and the weaving is flat. Thus, it doesn’t show when you are looking at the knit.
1.Identify where you need to weave and tighten the ends - look at the front to be sure it’s not too tight.
2. Cross them, this holds them together and stops you from having a gap there.
3. Weave in a diagonal fashion
4. Weave back diagonally
5. Do the same with the other side, but in the opposite direction - makes it flatter and helps hold the criss crossing you did a bit tighter - you don’t want it to slip and become a hole.
6. My join and weave is within that circle. And I assure that in real life it’s as flat as it seems.
On wool I use the spit splice. This technique here is something I usually only do for weaving in stripes, ends, and on materials that can’t be spit spliced (cotton).
I finished the pattern.
You can get it HERE
I’m in love with the buttons I used:
I have a ton of painted wooden beads with no home. I’m going to make them all into buttons now.
I was going to start another shorti cardi and then I remembered that the Boogie Girl has a Birthday next weekend. I decided to covertly ask her about some designs I’m working on “wink wink”. She played along for a while and then she flat out said if you’re making it for me then I want a lacy pullover in bright red.
The jig was up. I pulled out the Barbara Walker books and we picked out a lacy design for the cuffs and the hem of the body. It’s not just lacy but it’s scalloped. And the sleeves will be bell sleeves. She likes this idea so she can run around like a big red lacy bird. I don’t know where she gets her ideas, but a big lacy red bird is what she wants to be.
