If your tortillas are not soft there can be several reasons:
You did not use all purpose flour.
You did not use a cast iron pan.
Your pan was not hot enough.
You did not roll them thin enough.
They are not stored properly.
I store mine in a zip top plastic bag (put them in while they are still warm) and then close it up and remove all the air. Mine are always soft and every time I remove one, I close the bag back up, air removed each time. I keep them refrigerated this way for as long as 10 days. If you want to make your own homemade tortillas, click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
Even when it’s not cold outside, I still make my potato soup. Russet potatoes are best for this creamy comfort food and it only takes 1/2 hour to make. Cutting the potatoes into small 1/2-inch pieces helps it cook quickly and I always have my homemade chicken stock in the freezer for soups and stews. You don’t need cream to thicken this soup, only a little flour is all it takes.
Another thing I always have on hand is my (low fat) sour cream. Don’t all Polish people have sour cream at home? It seems like we eat everything with sour cream… cabbage rolls, pierogi, borscht, and potato soup. I always stir sour cream into this soup just before eating and if you want the full Polish experience (zupa ziemniaczana ~ but we called it zupa kartoflana) top it with a little freshly chopped dill. Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
I love seeing all the photos of my recipes so please keep sending them in. Thank you to all my fellow cooks and feel free to include where you are from. Please send your photo to: YourPhotos@JennyCanCook.com
ELS MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “Thank you Jenny! I used whole wheat Spelt to make this bread. The taste is fantastic! And after 30 minutes it came out of the oven looking like this ? I gave it another 7 min. Without the lid and paper, to be on the safe side. And after a very long half hour i cut in half… perfect? I love the way you do your video’s! So funny! Glad i found you! All the best, blessings and greetings from Els Bongers The Netherlands.”
MARIJA MADE MY CINNAMON ROLLS
BEEGE MADE MY FASTER NO KNEAD BREAD “Unbelievable and fast, This is so easy I’m telling all my friends.”
ANN MADE MY SIMPLE MEAT SAUCE “Jenny I made your meat sauce the other day and loved it. No more jar sauce for us! Thank you for the great recipes. Hope to see you in another video soon, I love watching them. Thank you, Ann Butler.”
EVA MADE MY ZUCCHINI CHOCOLATE CAKE “Dear Jenny, I made your chocolate zucchini cake. Wow ! Its safe to say that this is the best chocolate cake i ever ate. What a great idea to include zucchini… It adds a wonderfully moist and fresh taste. I didnt have enough cocoa powder, so i used melted dark chocolate. As chocolate contains fat, i could skip the oil in the dough and the butter in the frosting. I ended up having a lot of frosting, so i decided to cut the cake in half and fill it with the leftover. Delicious ! Everybody who tried it loved it as much as i did . Best regards from Germany, Eva”
EFRAT MADE MY PIZZA “Hi 🙂 This is the first pizza I’ve ever made, and it was so easy and tasty! I didn’t add pepperoni, just mushrooms, onion and olives, but the pizza base is all yours. We loved it, many thanks! Efrat and Eran from Israel”
NIKTA MADE MY EGG BREAD “Egg Bread!”
MIDGE MADE MY BLACK BREAD? “No! I added some of King Arthur’s caramel powder to Jenny’s No Knead Rye Bread. Looked just like Russian black bread! A big hit with the Ukrainian of the house! 🙂 Midge Mudrowsky”
You won’t find a coconut cake anywhere that’s this easy to make. One bowl. Simple ingredients. Quick and easy recipe. It’s a variation of my easy one bowl yellow cake with just a couple of changes and one of them is of course, lots of coconut. This is an easy cake you can make quickly and have a delicious homemade dessert ready any time.
I try to always use ingredients that most people either have on hand or can easily find. And I always try to bake without butter and I have done it again with this cake. Even the cream cheese frosting is made without butter and I promise you will not miss it. What you will miss is the rest of the cake because it will disappear very quickly! Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
Every single ingredient in this healthy cancer-fighting soup is there for a reason. These are the vegetables that researchers believe contain powerful anti cancer compounds. So I put them all into one delicious, nutritious, easy to make soup. And when you make it with homemade chicken stock, you increase the health-promoting properties even more. Here’s what’s in it and why:
Broccoli, cabbage, and cauliflower – These are cruciferous vegetables, the most widely recommended food group to eat to protect against cancer.
Carrots – Orange colored vegetables are believed to help against many types of cancer.
Kale – Dark greens like kale and spinach are key to cancer and disease protection. If you use spinach, stir it in just at the end when the soup is done.
Tomato – Red tomatoes are a must for anyone concerned about prostate cancer. They are a good source of lycopene, especially prepared and canned tomatoes (even ketchup and tomato sauce or paste) but they need a little fat to be absorbed, so that’s why you must include the olive oil. I use canned tomatoes because canned are a better source of lycopene than fresh.
Garlic & Onion – They both have strong anti-inflammatory properties and it’s believed they can help slow down the growth of cancer cells.
So if you are looking to protect your health in the future or trying to prevent a recurrence of cancer, research tells us that eating these vegetables can help. Or if you just want to be as healthy as possible, you will love this quick and easy homemade vegetable soup. Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
This may be the easiest cookie recipe ever. No mixer, no flour, no butter, and only five ingredients. Well… make that six. It’s my peanut butter cookie recipe but this time I added chocolate chips. Wow! They were so good I made them twice this week. It’s a winning combination: peanut butter and chocolate, and even healthier by using dark chocolate chips so I just had to share my “new” recipe.
This recipe is so flexible that next time I might add some extra chopped peanuts too. This simple recipe is so easy, even if you don’t bake, you can make these cookies. – plain or with chocolate chips. Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
When anyone takes the time to take a picture and send it to me, it always makes my day. Thank you to all my fellow cooks and feel free to include where you are from. Please send your photo to: YourPhotos@JennyCanCook.com
KARIN MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “Hi Jenny! Here is my version of your “No Knead Bread.” We all love it! Thank you for sharing!”
LYNDA MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “I just made the bread! And I am soooo excited! (While it was baking I made a pot of soup). Thank you Jenny! Here is my first bread: before and after.”
RITA MADE MY SIMPLE WHITE BREAD WITH EGG “Made it today. And it’s delicious!!!!!!”
JOCELYN MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “Baking bread is my new found love. WHO “kneads” men when you have fresh warm bread! I love watching your Your YouTube cooking show. You are, by far, my favorite. You are fun to watch but more importantly, your recipes are easy to follow and always come out superbly. Your cabbage rolls are next. Again, the steps and method looks great. I will chill them and then sauté them the next day and serve with sour cream!”
EILEEN MADE MY CINNAMON ROLLS “These are so amazing! Quick, fluffy and delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipes. Best wishes from Eileen Rose in Canada.”
BRISY MADE MY MARBLE LOAF & CINNAMON-RAISIN BREAD “Hi Jenny, I’ve been going through your recipes and all of them have turned out great. I keep forgetting to send pictures so I made it a point to take pictures of these two beauties. Thanks for sharing your recipes and technique with all of us. (Beautiful swirls)”
“I love this bread!”
DIANE MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “Hi Jenny! I am from Vancouver, BC and just made this loaf of no knead bread. It turned out really well although I will try your tip to preheat to 450 and reduce to 425 to bake. i bought the cast iron pan in the photos just to make this loaf but the bottom IS a tad tough! Not inedible by any means though – we just tore into it! Big fan!”
MARIECAR MADE MY DINNER ROLLS “Hi Jenny! I am from Canada. When i started making your white dinner rolls, i never went searching for other recipes again. It is so moist, chewy and delicious. I love the fact that it is a quick and easy recipe. Thank you for sharing your recipe!!!”
NIKTA MADE MY BLACK FOREST BROWNIES “Just made these, just incredible! So easy, so moist and delicious! The only thing I changed is I used parchment paper (made diagonal cuts in the corners so it fits in the square pan!)”
SUREKA MADE MY SIMPLE WHOLE WHEAT BREAD “Hi Jenny, I am Sureka from Canada. I made your whole wheat bread twice. It was so good. This is my grand-daughter’s favourite bread. Thank you so much for sharing your recipes. I want to try your other recipes too.”
ROSE MADE MY NO KNEAD CRUSTY ROLLS “Hi there Jenny. I am from Barrie, Canada. I make your recipe today, hoping to freeze them for Our Thanksgiving dinner this weekend.I used a light coloured air sheet with parchment paper and baked them on the middle rack at 450, as my oven thermometer said, for 28 minutes. They tasted good but not quite done and didn’t brown like your photo. I can’t figure out why. I have been baking for 39 years. I definitely want to get these right as I feel this recipe is going to be a keeper. Any suggestions? Thanks and hope you and your family have a great Thanksgiving.”
*Two things come to mind. One, your oven may not have been hot enough but if you used a free-standing oven thermometer, the kind that rests on the rack, then that may not be the problem. It takes my oven about 1/2 hour to reach 450 so that’s why I suggest 35 minutes to preheat. I think it’s more likely the air sheet. I tried one only once for some cookies and never used it again. They are made to prevent burning but they also prevent browning. If you have a standard silver colored baking sheet I suggest you try that and please let me know your results. – jenny
ROSE MADE MY NO KNEAD CRUSTY ROLLS…AGAIN “Yah! I bought a large light coloured pan and tried these crusty rolls again. Voila! I doubled the recipe so I have enough. They turned out beautiful and just in time for our Family Thanksgiving Dinner tomorrow. Thank you Jenny! Love what you do and why you do it. A woman after my own heart.”
*I’m glad to know they turned out… and Happy (Canadian) Thanksgiving! – jenny
MARIECAR MADE MY SIMPLE WHOLE WHEAT BREAD “I made four loaves today and everybody loves it, even my husband you hate whole wheat couldn’t resist. It is foolproof, It is so moist and delicious. Thank you for sharing your recipe. More power!”
MY SIMPLE CREATION MADE MY CINNAMON RAISIN BREAD “The family loves anything that’s got to do with cinnamon. Here’s the Cinnamon-Raisin Tunnel Bread.?”
TOMAMOMMA MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “My first No Knead Bread. Thanks, Jenny. White and green olive, garlic, sound-dried tomato, Soooo much Yummmmmm!”
CAROL MADE MY NO KNEAD BREAD “It may look a little “brown” but by gosh it was fantastic!!!!”
Not eating enough vegetables? Here’s one way to eat a little more. Besides adding a bit of nutrition to this easy cake, zucchini also makes it beautifully moist. This yummy cake is made without butter, only using vegetable oil or extra light olive oil instead. Most cakes tend to get overdone around the edges so I recommend using a cake strip. Click here to learn more.
Have some fun and serve this “chocolate cake” to your family and ask them to guess what’s in it. Nobody would guess zucchini. I’m always finding new ways to bake without butter so the only butter here is a little in the frosting if you choose to use it. As for this delicious cake, you can just call it what it is – a delicious, moist, and a little bit healthier chocolate cake. Click here for the recipe. – Jenny Jones
