PARMESAN TORTILLA CRIPS

This is for Day 21 of 30 Days of Creativity www.30dayofcreativity.com and today's theme is "Cheese".  I chose to try a recipe from One Perfect Bite to make Parmesan Tortilla Chips and they came out tasty more like crackers than chips, but would be a fun soup topper.

I stuck pretty much to the recipe except that I used 8 inch flour instead of 6 inch corn tortilla and used sea salt.  I also recommend checking at 6-8 minutes instead of 12 minutes as the first batch was too toasted and I ended up throwing it out.

Ingredients:

• 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil
• 1 tablespoon dried oregano
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
• 12 6 or 8 inch tortillas
• 1 cup fresh shredded Parmesan
• 1/4 to 1/2 sea salt

Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F.

"Line two large heavy large baking sheets with aluminum foil. Whisk oil, oregano, and pepper in a small saucepan over medium heat just until warm. Set aside for 15 minutes.

Brush oil mixture over both sides of tortillas.

Stack tortillas and cut them into 1/2 to 3/4-inch wide strips. Arrange strips in a single layer over the baking sheets. Sprinkle cheese and salt over strips. Bake until strips are golden brown and crisp" about 6-8 minutes.

Yield: 5 to 6 servings.

For original recipe visit:

http://oneperfectbite.blogspot.com/2011/01/parmesan-tortilla-crisps.html

GREEK POTATOES

This is a recipe based on the one posted by at Recipezaar http://www.recipezaar.com/Greek-Potatoes-Oven-Roasted-and-Delicious-87782 These would be great for a chilly night due to the baking time being a total of 80 minutes, which gives them a flavorful zing from the spices and garlic flavor seeping and baking into them. This receipe is enough to serve 6 people and I estimate the cost with the ingredients that I used to be around $3, which is cheaper than one fast food sandwich. I loved these, but they were a bit too exotic for Marv and Kyle's tastes and they are just plain old potatoes fans.

Preheat Oven to 440 degrees

Pare around 8 potatoes and cut into wedges (6-7 per potato)and place in a bowl.

Add:4 tsp minced garlic

1/2 cup olive or canola oil (I used canola as I did not have any olive oil left)

1 tbps Oregano

2 tbsp Lemon Pepper or juice of 1 lemon and 1 tsp pepper

Few dashes of Sicilian spices (optional)

Few dashes Sea Salt or Kosher Salt

Few dashes pepper

The toss until well blended.

Pour into baking pan lined with aluminum foil(optional, but makes clean up easier)Then pour the 1 cup water into the baking pan and distribute the potatoes evenly the place in oven and bake for 40 minutes.

After 40 minutes, take the pan out and stir the potatoes and will probably need to add an additional 1/2 water, then place back in the oven for another 40 minutes.

Take out and they will look look like the first picture and they are ready to serve!