10for10for10: Day 14: Saturday, two weeks and fish focaccia

Hot Showers are a wonderful thing. Especially after a late night with Jr Hi'ers at the school lock-in. The little kids and I watched National Velvet and ate cold cereal this Saturday morning and talked about planting our garden.

The weather is so beautiful that we just wanted to sit on the steps and soak in the sun's warming rays. Green is appearing in the lawn, and the daffodils near the bricks are almost popping open. I love the promise of spring.

Breakfast menu: cold cereal and milk, whenever you wake up cost: $2.20, 1.00 for a box of cereal, 1.20 for half a gallon of milk

Lunch: focaccia/pizza and green salad

Lunch cost: $2.09

green salad:

1 head Iceberg lettuce: .83

1 carrot, shredded: .09

1 head leaf lettuce: .20

(leaf lettuce was on sale at Fiesta Foods 5/1.00, in store special!)

1 cucumber: .50

3 oz dressing: .18

(and we didn't use it all)

Here's looking at our leafy greens, a lot of healthy goodness for the price! "Rabbit food" is what we call it around here.

No, there is no fish in the fococcia. The fish is the focaccia! I pushed the computer mouse over into the picture to give a sense of the scale of this fish Emily created. That is a big fish...not everybody eats fish focaccia for lunch. I love the creativity, and the taste.

today's snack: the rest of the ice cream and Dr Pepper treat

cost, along with yesterday's snack, is $1.99 for the ice cream, plus only .10 for the Dr. Pepper, and .39 for the Rootbeer, to be accounted for from the extra funds we've saved up on days we ate less than our budget allowed

We bought some harina de maiz, some corn masa, for making tortillas, and, using an idea from Mercedes of "Mercedes and Family" fame, we mixed some flour with the corn flour to make a great tortilla mix. Here are Trudy's hands mixing the flour with water.

Here is our first experimental tortilla, first in Christiana's tortilla press, and then on the griddle. We sampled it, and gave it great ratings.

Below are a whole griddle full of freshly pressed tortillas, roasting on a dry griddle. To the left you can also see the tortilla press and the bowl of dough balls waiting to be pressed. We smeared a bit of butter across each tortilla as it finished roasting. What a wonderful flavor. And, with the press, tortillas were much faster to produce, with less mess.

Dinner menu: tacos with homemade tortillas

Dinner costs: $4.59

Taco's included:

tortilla dough for 35 tortillas: .78

hamburger meat: 1.57

lettuce: .84

1oz salsa each for those who like it: .40

2 tbsp butter: .10

Christiana found a moneymaking scheme that worked. We had her pick up dog piles in the front yard, and both sides were happy, Christiana with her money, and me with no more land mines in the lawn.