Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Feliz Compleanos - now I have to build you a cake or something.

Today is Andi's birthday - she is officially "in her 30s" now (she's 31) - you should go comment on her blog because she's cool and she taught me how to make tortillas - Yeah, tortillas - I had no idea that there was a way of getting tortillas that didn't include buying them in a plastic pack in the miniscule "Ethnic Foods" section in the grocery store - but yeah, last weekend, I totally made my own tortillas - sure, they weren't really round or anything* but they were good and they took about 4 seconds to make, even if I did have to take my own life into my hands to procure the ingredients**.


* The total geek inside of me had to proudly announce that I'd made one in the shape of the Millenium Falcon

** I scoured the whole entire supermarket looking for lard (because I wanted to make them according to the real recipe) and couldn't find it - in Phoenix, it was pretty much in every aisle, in Savannah, not so much - so after aimlessly wandering the aisles and picking up at least 8 or 9 more items that I didn't need, I finally spotted a solid (read: really large) female employee in the meat section, lugging about 85 frozen turkeys on her back. "Do you have any lard?" The woman gave me a "No-you-dih'nt" look and I got all stutter-y like I always get when I'm faced with a woman who could totally kick my ass. "I... uh... I'm looking for a tub of lard..." Her expression didn't change and I was pretty positive that she was going to clock me with one of the frozen birds. "Um... you know," I continued. "Lard... in one of those tubs... the lard... for the... you know... for... cooking." Fortunately, the only package of lard they were able to produce was about 19 pounds of it, so I've got enough to last the rest of my natural life and I never have to go through that again.