Both of my daughters love to cook. One of their favorite types of cooking is reproducing favorite restaurant menu items and commercial food products.
Many years ago on a family vacation, we enjoyed these beautiful and large tostada salads. They were served in crispy, deep-fried flour tortilla bowls. We've talked about buying the tool needed to make tortilla bowls like those, but never got around to it.
Sunday afternoon both daughters were out garage-saling, and what did they find? They found a pair of forms for making flour tortilla bowls for 75 cents. That evening they researched how best to make these bowls. (There are a couple of methods.)
Earlier this week they tried out two methods, both using homemade flour tortilla dough, and determined that one way produced the crispiest tortilla bowl. They made a stack of these bowls to use on their respective cooking nights. So, yeah, we had tostada salads both Monday and Tuesday.
Don't these salads look gorgeous? The crispy tortilla bowl was filled with refried beans, carne asada, cheese, lettuce, green onions, tomatoes, and olives. Salsa was served on the side. The only items missing that the restaurant version had was sour cream and guacamole. For the price, our tostada salad bowls were fantastic and didn't miss anything by not having the sour cream and guac.
Do you have favorite restaurant meals that you've recreated?
