Preparing for the week ahead by making breads, tortillas, and granola bars for my family.
On this most recent Monday, (last Monday) it meant making 38 flour tortillas, 18 sandwich rolls, 16 almond dark chocolate chunk granola bars, and 1 loaf of whole wheat flax seed bread.
I feel so grateful when I look in my fridge and pantry and see freshly made tortillas and breads that will last my family a good portion of the week. The granola bars, well, they are usually gone the same day. :0)
2 comments:
ooowwww! that all looks really good! for some reason when I limit my cals I really crave bread!
How hard are the tortillas to make?
And how do you store all that bread?
The tortillas are super easy to make! (Those particular tortills are not whole wheat. I mostly eat flour and corn tortillas.) I have a tortilla press but I never use it, the tortillas come out too thick for my liking. I just roll them out by hand with a rolling pin on the counter. I was taught to measure everything with my hands, but this recipe is pretty comparable to what I was taught:
http://www.texasrollingpins.com/tortillarecipe.html
For the tortillas, I put them in a large ziplock bag in the fridge.
I wrap the bread in plastic wrap. It takes some practice to learn to cut uniform sandwich slices from the loaf of bread. You can buy a little wooden block thing that you place the bread in and it has guides for where to cut the bread so the slices come out even. I don't have one, I just eyeball it.
The first day they are baked, I put the rolls on the dining table in a bread basket covered with a cloth, usually the first evening we have chicken salad on sandwich rolls. Then I keep them in large ziplock baggies. The kids take them out one by one and make a sandwich on them, or we use them as dinner rolls with soup and stuff like that.
The granola bars get wrapped individually in plastic wrap and tucked away in the freezer, after everyone gets to sample one or two. When I pack the girls' or Tiny's lunches I take one granola bar out of the freezer and put it in their lunchbag for the next day.
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