Om nom nom.

I picked up a couple of pounds of ground lamb at the farmer's market this week and couldn't wait to make gyro meat for Greek salads.  Unfortunately, when I went in the fridge to get the lettuce, it was rotten already.  :(  I didn't like the idea of just eating plain gyro with tzatziki either, so I decided to whip up something that I hoped would come out like a flexible flatbread.  It worked!  I'm not sure what to call these, they can be anything from a thick flatbread to a thin tortilla or crepe depending on how much liquid you use.  I made ours medium thickness, a little thicker than a tortilla but still foldable so that they would work for gyros.
 

 Primal Flatbread/Tortillas

1 cup tapioca flour/starch
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup grated parmesan
1 jumbo egg (1 regular plus 1 yolk would probably work)
1 tsp. garlic powder
1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 cup olive oil
1/4-1/2 cup milk of choice
Butter/ghee/bacon grease for greasing pan

Whisk together dry ingredients and cheese, and in a separate bowl whisk together wet, starting with 1/4 cup milk.  Combine together, batter should be pourable (like pancake batter), add more milk to thin the batter if you want thinner tortillas/crepes.  Preheat cast iron or other non-stick frying pan to medium heat and grease, pour in batter, and flip when the edges get dry and you see bubbles in the batter.  Re-grease pan as needed (just as you would with pancakes).  This recipe is a small batch, it made 4 flatbreads.

If you're interested, this is the absolute best recipe for gyro meat ever.  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/traditional-gyro-meat/  I actually baked the gyro loaf in my new Instant Pot and it worked quite well!  I put the meat into a 2qt. round glass baking dish, put a cup of water into the pot, and used the metal rack with handles to lower it in.  Pushed the meat/stew button, bumped it up to an hour cooking time, and wha-la!  Then I just sliced it thinly and threw it in the frying pan (already greased from making flatbreads) to crisp it up.  No photos because we inhaled it!

Ready...set...freeze.

Yesterday was a beautiful day.  We spent most of it outside, building another raised bed, fixing the motion activated sprinkler, making a pea trellis, and transplanting the tomatoes. 

 Another exciting moment was our first harvest of the season--a radish!  Miss A did the honors of taste testing and declared it yummy.

 When I looked at my phone this morning, I saw the dreaded red triangle on the weather app.  I initially thought it was because of the storms today, but it was actually a freeze warning.  Of course, a freeze warning right after we transplanted the tomatoes.  Time to break out the plastic again.

Spring has been pretty busy, with the birthday party, family visiting, softball, etc. I haven't had much time for blogging.  My eldest, Mister X, is home for spring break and we plan to take our first backcountry camping trip once the weather clears up.  I'm excited, we all have hammocks now and the Cherokee National Forest is gorgeous in spring.