Pictures of Breakfast Tacos

For those of you who are curious, I've posted ALL the pictures I've taken in Peru thus far (which isn't all that many, because I'm not a huge photographer-type person) on my Picasa website. It's listed in the photo links section on the sidebar.

Included in these pictures is documentation of my first cooking experiment in Peru. I made breakfast tacos this weekend for a group of friends from Santa Isabel's congregation. It was an adventure. Unlike back home in the States, they don't sell tortillas that are pre-made and packaged here. So the first step for this past weekend was learning how to make homemade flour tortillas (yeah, yeah, I know, I should have used corn, but the flour ones looked easier). Let's just say that the first batch kind of looked more like biscuits than tortillas -- how was I supposed to know that MORE water = THICKER tortillas?! I thought it would be the opposite!

I also couldn't find pre-made refriend beans. So I got to do that the old fashioned way as well: with a bunch of vegetable oil, pinto beans, salt, pepper and a little garlic. But somehow, everything came out edible, and nothing caught on fire. And everyone at the meal CLAIMED that it tasted really good! I think it was the first meal I've had in weeks that didn't include ANY rice OR potatoes! The Peruvians were all worried about the gastronomical after-affects of eating a bunch of eggs, beans, sausage and cheese all mixed together. I just told them that North Americans fart a lot.

Anyway, if you have any homemade refried beans/tortilla tips, let me know! (I'm talking to YOU Guatemala YAVs!)