Sister Paya's Holy Rolling Burritos
This recipe is a bit different in the essense of instead of using wheat flour to make the tortilla bread, which is a thin unleven bread that is baked ontop of a flat surface and is foldable, the flour used is made from a tuber plant that is starchy like a potatoe called manioc, which is also known as cassava root. My grandmother once said "Flour is flour, all you have to do is add yeast, and your bread will rise." So with her words of sage advice ringing in my ears, I will assume that folks know how to make flour from manioc or have been able to purchase manioc flour already made. If your not brave enough to try manioc, the tried and true flour tortilla bread will work ^.^
Okay, assuming we know that by mixing flour, water, and salt and egg together, we can make dough, I for the sake of ease, will forgo on how to mix the ingredients into a dough, other than to say, you want it just as sticky as noodle dough, me, I cheated and bought my bread already made. The size of our thin bread is about 12-18 inches or the length of your arm from the wrist to elbow, or tip of third finger to elbow, and about as thick as 1/2 a 5 year olds little finger fingernail. Thick enough to be bread, thin enough to fold without tearing.
Beans being beans, and pinto beans or black beans being the most popular in make the bean paste, not everyone can get access to pinto beans or black beans, so good beans will do, especially since the beans will be boiled down and mashed into a thin paste. Not so thick that it solid and crumbly, but almost. You will want to be able to have the bean paste fall off the spoon, thin and spreadable.
Onions are a bulb fruit that smells light and florally, with a pepper bite to the sweet taste of it. I'm not sure what onions are called around the world that have the same type or similar type of bulb plant, but if you know that flavor, or something similar, use that. Dicing them is easy, all we want to do is cut 20 line across the top across the layers about halfway down, then repeat our cuts in the opposite drection, so that it looks like a bunch of little squares across the top. The easiest way to make even layers of dice, is then to cut across the layers making the slices the same thickness as our center square is big.
Dairy is found almost the entire world over, including in some parts of the Brazilian Rainforest, so cheese is our last ingredient. This we want crumbled. Cheating like me, would be to buy cheese already crumbled or grated into string like strips.
To assemble our burrito, we will want to put two healthy heaping spoonfuls of our bean paste in a line in the center of our bread, sprinkle with cheese and onions, and fold. To fold, start with a side parallel to the line of paste, fold over, and lightly pull backwards, this will bunch everything up. Then fold in the short sides, and roll or fold over to the end.
There we have it, Sister Paya's Holy Rolling Burrito.
The Holy Paya Choir Happy Time Fajita
The fajita, pronounced fahita, is a wonderful little fried dish that uses things like meat, mushrooms, onions, garlic, and bellpeppers. All these ingredients are slices thin, about as thick and long as your little finger, and are fried on top of a flat surface and served with tortilla bread and butter, rice or bean paste. Our tortilla bread can either be wheat flour or manioc flour bread.
Since it is rather simple, all we need to do is slice our meat and vegetables into thin slices of the same size, fry up until meat is done, and serve next to our bean paste or rice with the tortilla bread.
Bad Blood Pizza
Pizza is something that almost everyone considers junk food or bad food, and is actually rather healthy, depending on the ingredients. Keeping with the them of using manioc or cassava for the bread, we want a to make single person servings so our bread base will be about the length of a palm from the wrist to the tip of the longest finger. The circles can be made larger, but small is good too.
We will want cheese, tomato or mildly spiced mango paste, tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, and meat that has been slightly smoked and sliced thin, pepperoni meat is most commonly used, and all that is, is a meat that had been ground, seasoned with pepper and dried or smoked onto a long round shape roughly the thickness of a thumb from tip to base of knuckle join to the hand, sliced across the short side in thin circle slices. our cheese is crumbled and the tomatoes can be either diced or sliced thin, along with the oncions and mushrooms.
To assemble, spread our dough out in a circle about the thickness of the smallest finger joint from tip of finger to joint end, this is about 1/4 inch in thickness. Gently press a slightly raised edge all around to keep our ingredients from falling off, and spread our tomatoe or mango paste in the center, to the raised edge. Place evenly around our sliced meat, onions, tomatoes and mushrooms. Now for the fun part.
To bake the pizza, traditionally, it was baked in a mud oven next to a small fire, a mud oven was nothing more than a mud dome with a hole in one side large enough to put the bread or pizza in, and baked about a hand length to elbow length from the fire, turning it one quarter way during cooking to spread the heat and cooking evenly. This took about a half hour, to an hour depending on whether it was the pizza which can take a half hour to bread, which can take up to an hour to bake. So we want to bake ours for about a half hour. The cheese will melt and cover everything and the bread base will be done comletely though. Slice this into even numbered slices and enjoy.