So I made a decision the other day: I want to be good at something, or at least try to be. I want to just pick something and get after it.
Tortillas. That’s what I picked. I thought it might as well feed me if I’m going to be spending time trying to get good at it. Plus, I enjoy the tactile nature of making tortillas. Like the resistance you get when you push your bare hands into the soft dough, like kneading bread dough but it doesn’t seem as intimidating as bread-making, there’s a roughness and simplicity to tortillas where my lack of skill could possibly hide until I master it, if I ever do.
Tonight will be the second night I try my hands at this goal. I picked a random, simple recipe online you can find here. Maybe later I’ll experiment a little more with other recipes, make a comment below if you know of a good one or what your preference is. I would also encourage everyone to pick something like this and have it as a little pet project. I’m sure everyone reading this is already good or even great at plenty of things in their respective lives, but pick something random and have little experience with. Maybe you already have something like this going on. If so, what is it? If not, pick something and let me know what it is in the comments below.
I’m looking forward to the experience of something small and simple as tortilla making. There won’t be any tests at the end, it’s only for myself (and my wife who gets to eat them too) – it’s the journey that counts, as in most things. The couple of mountains I’ve climbed has turned a figurative lesson into a literal one: It’s not getting to the summit that counts but the journey to get there. And if you don’t enjoy the journey, what makes you think you’ll enjoy the summit!?
So what is your tortilla?
