a peek inside the fishbowl

Did you know you can fry flour tortillas to make a cheap and easy dessert or afterschool snack? We rarely have cookies in the house, so this is a nice substitute for when we have a craving for something sweet. It goes well with hot chocolate, and my personal favourite cold-weather beverage, hot vanilla (take superheated milk and add a splash of really good vanilla). Add sugar and it’s like drinking a marshmallow. Seriously.

Here’s how we make our fried tortilla dessert:

• Take one tortilla. (Fresher is better here.)
• Fry in a bit of oil you’ve swirled around a hot frying pan. It will puff up as it cooks. Flip it over after a minute or two and brown on both sides.
• Dust with icing sugar.
• You are done.

For awhile I was using cookie cutters to make fun shapes – circles and stars and diamonds – but Sarah reminded me recently that it’s fun to go freehand sometimes. This is her creation:

Not bad eh? And it tasted pretty good. :)