glorious mexican food

i just died and went back to california.

for a while now, my fellow ALTs and i have been making ghetto mexican food in order to feed our cravings for mexican food. since our little island lacks a lot of crucial things needed for said mexican food, we've had to be creative.... namely, instead of using tortillas, we've been using packaged naan bread. we've been lucky that aaron's predecessor left behind a few packages of taco mix (which ran out as of last weekend).

slowly, our act has come together..... we've (ie. aaron) acquired refried beans at the last visit to the costco in fukuoka. crushed red pepper was also luckily at costco. and finally, chili powder is actually available at the grocery store at the local mall.

but tonight, we gave up on being ghetto and decided to go all out. tonight, we made real mexican food.

tonight, we made FLOUR TORTILLAS. and it was glorious.

since we were going through all the trouble of making tortillas, we decided, hey, may as well go all out and make mexican food and make our own taco mix.

so with the help of two online recipes:
- Flour Tortilla Recipe
- Taco Mix Recipe

... we had an AWESOME dinner. i seriously was on the verge of crying it was so wonderful.

i only regret not making more tortillas.... i've recently been craving appetite-satiating snacks soooo badly... i can never get full off the snacks that they sell in this country without breaking the piggy bank. oh well.

anyway, if you have time to kill and you're extremely removed from and desperate for mexican food, i highly recommend the two above recipes. enjoy!

--evelyn

ps. this craving for mexican food has been going on for a while now. jayne and i are both from california, and whenever we get on the topic of california, it always leads to mexican food. it got to the point where we were going the extra distance in thailand and even cambodia just to get our fill of enchiladas and tacos. jayne, aaron, and i have even had several mexican food parties where we've been using naan and prepackaged taco mix. thank goodness for the internet, and thank goodness there are people out there with easy to make recipes =)