So, we buy flour tortillas and keep them in the freezer to use for tacos or Mexican lasagna or fajitas. Do they have any flavor of their own? Not really. Do they really have any nutritional value? No. Do they have calories? You betcha. What do they actually contain? I have no idea--we buy the whole wheat ones thinking they must be healthier, and the list of ingredients is 13 lines long--10 of which might be written in a foreign language for all I know. That's a lot of unknown substances for something we're eating as only because it holds other food. Now it's possible that the regular ones contain only flour, water, and lard--which would technically qualify, but that grosses me out. So, in order to have fajitas last night, Andy made "tortillas" out of the sponge from the five minute bread book. In all honesty, they were really more like pitas than anything else as yeast tends to rise--except when maybe you want it to--but they still worked. I don't know if that still makes what we had "fajitas"--especially since there was no sour cream or guacamole--but maybe he invented a Mexican gyro?
One doesn't quibble about technicalities on this experiment. If it's edible and allowed, it works.
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