/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19510230
My grandma would make gorditas real quick and easy with some simple picadillo and beans. I can make most of the things she'd cook and watched her cook a lot to learn but I've never figured out how to make the gorditas dough like her.

She never wrote a recipe down, she had a stroke and forgot how to explain recipes she did know. But if she was standing in a kitchen it was like muscle memory for her and she'd just start whipping something up and if you asked her how she cooked something she'd be like "I don't know the recipe since the stroke just watch me and do it this way...no not that way like this".

But she did tell me most of her homemade cookies and baking recipes came from the back of a bag of flour or sugar. So whenever I make oatmeal cookies I use the recipe on the back of the oatmeal box and my mom's all amazed I can bake just like her mom. It's a funny secret my grandma told me not to bother telling others cause no one believes her that it's that simple.