This dinner came out too good not to share!

I’ve been craving greek food something fierce (specifically, craving tzatziki!), and sort of like the case with Matzoh ball soup, just decided to cook it for myself instead of wasting $$ chowhounding all around San Francisco and inevitably being disappointed when I reach the conclusion there is no food as good as NYC here.

Inspired by a few people on the internet who talked about how easy it is to make your own tortillas, I set out to make some whole wheat ones. We served them with Greek seasoning-coated chicken and tzatziki to make a sort of gyro type meal.

Holy cow, it came out so incredible!!  I’m not sure if Earl shares my sentiments, but I honestly think this was one of the best things I’ve ever cooked!!  Earl’s opinion doesn’t really count, anyways- the man likes EVERYTHING… you could liken him to having the palate of a famished midwestern 15-year old boy after a day working on Dad’s farm and then a 4-hour basketball practice.  It’s funny when I have him taste test stuff- “how is this?”  “It’s GOOD.”  Everything is always GOOD.  It’s never too salty, too cold, too hot, too little spices… everything is “good” followed with “yum, can I have some more?”  :P   Very amusing… I love my boyfriend, but a food critic he is not; I might as well ask the dog to taste test things.

So yeah- this meal was a little more complicated than your standard weeknight “whip it up” but for a Sunday night or special occasion- IT WAS GREAT!!

Making homemade tortillas was super easy, too.  I didn’t use a tortilla press or any other fancy stuff.  In fact, I don’t even have a rolling pin (a rolling pin is on my Christmas wish list).
I used this recipe for the tortillas:
knead:

knead:

form into pre-made balls

roll em out:

like i said, no rolling pan here, so i used a floured can of Pam

fry em up for about 30 seconds on each side:

meanwhile make your tzatziki, which I snagged from this recipe (it was one of the more simple tzatziki recipes I found out there- a few I saw were REALLY complex, this was was easy and tasted great).

and also season up and bake your chicken. the chicken is coated in a bunch of spices- marjoram, ground rosemary, dried mint, onion powder, to name a few. You can check out the recipe I used here. Btw- this chicken came out DELISH. I’d even just make that again and skip tortillas and tzatziki. It was that good just as a stand-alone.

when chicken is done, cut into strip slices. serve with condiments (onions, heirloom tomatoes, tzatziki and seasoned chicken):

and….. nosh!

as you can see, my tortillas came out WAY too big.  if anyone attempts- I would recommend to make your balls smaller- think almost the size of a golf ball when you are shaping them.

still, super easy and GOOOOOOOOOD.  in fact, this meal was stupendous.  thumbs up, would eat again! :p In fact… maybe I should make this again this week… lol. We literally *just* ate dinner an hour ago, but doing this write up has jonesing!

ps- tonight we went to a cocktail party at Earl’s boss’ house. Her place was beautiful and had a stupendous panoramic view of the Bay Bridge (and balcony… :::drool:::). It was nice meeting all his coworkers, especially because I’ll be seeing them all again at his office Christmas Party in about two weeks… so now at least I’ve met them once already. Anyways, I thought my hair looked really pretty tonight- just haphazardly threw it up in a clip and was so happy at how cute it came out! Sometimes with those bear-trap clips you just nail it looking really nice. Not bad for a 5-second updo! Dress is the snuggly cashmere sweater dress that I snagged on an amazing sale from Bloomingdales for last year’s office Christmas party.

pps- lol, I just checked to see if that link to where the dress was sold was still valid… not only is it still valid, but the same dress is still on sale again, and even cheaper this year! HA!