Gorditas

Another fun cooking class - this time we made gorditas, a thick tortilla stuffed with refried beans.



After you make the dough, you roll some into a ball then make a depression in the middle which you fill with refried beans














You pat them out until they are flat (making sure that the bean filling is covered up when you're finished, so it doesn't leak out)


















Then fry them in hot oil


















Top with sour cream, cheese, and a sauce whipped up in the blender (a clove of garlic and a chile blended thoroughly with a little water, then some whole tomatoes, which are slightly chopped)







Voilá.....gorditas!



After class Sheila and I took a cab to Plaza las Americas, the mall in Playa, which is pretty similar to any small city mall in the U.S. The cineplex is very nice, and movies are only about 40 pesos. I understand that most American films are presented in English, with Spanish subtitles.