MAKING TORTILLAS

While I was eating my breakfast this morning, the Señora was busy making tortillas from corn her family's grown on their land down the mountain. It's a criollo (local variety) corn, so that's why it's a darker color than most of the tortillas we're used to. She also makes them out a really dark corn, what we called "Indian corn" back in North Carolina, and those tortillas come out nearly purple.



She cooks them in a wood-burning oven, which keeps the kitchen smelling cozy and "hearthy" (for lack of a better word). And you look in that same picture of the oven, you'll see a black pot full of home-grown, home-roasted coffee, which the Señora keeps ready all day long. It's a really clean, full-flavored coffee. If you're lucky, I'll bring you a bag back to the U.S.