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Freshen Up Friday

Want to refresh your spirit?  Get together with some friends and have one teach the others how to do something at which they excel.  Last week a couple ladies and I got together with another friend from church to learn how to make tortillas.  Sue is Mexican and is a fantastic cook.  I’ve heard her talk about her tortilla-making days, and I asked if I could come and watch her and learn how to make them.  She was happy to oblige.  We all had such fun in the kitchen together! 
Here was her recipe and pictures of our progress:

Mixing the dough…

Forming the balls that would become the tortillas…

The tortilla press was used to make the dough really thin…
The tortilla after being pressed…
After pressing, it was rolled even thinner with a rolling pin…
Then the tortilla is transferred to an ungreased skillet…

Browning on the skillet…
Busy at work…

Another worker.  We had quite an assembly line going!
Our finished product!

When we finished, we took the warm tortillas and filled them with chicken, cheese, tomatoes, boiled eggs and a little olive oil.  then they were folded over.  Yum!  They were so delicious!  They’re much better than the ones you buy in the store!

The best part was the fellowship we shared together.  We had so much fun chatting and laughing as we worked.  We have plans to learn from one another in other sessions, and also to perhaps invite some of our teen girls to come join our lessons. 

Make plans to get together with some of your friends and learn from one another.  If one does scrapbooking, another is a knitter and someone else makes beautiful wreaths, take turns in one another’s homes and spend time gleaning from their talents.  I felt like we were accomplishing the Titus 2 admonition for the older to teach the younger.  Age really doesn’t matter – it’s the sharing your time and abilities with one another.  What a blessing!  What refreshment! 

What would you like to learn to do?  Who could you ask to teach you? 

Be refreshed,

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  1. I would love to join you sometime… I love learning new things. Home made tortillas is on my list…. Looks like fun!

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