Christians, are your pearls okay?

Proverbs 19:11 "Good sense makes one slow to anger, and it is his glory to overlook an offense"

      As a born and raised, with Bible degree in hand, Christian....y'all, I'm so tired. I'm so tired of the Christian outrage everytime a secular organization does a secular thing - we become the snowflake, the bully, and morally superior, when it best suits us. We start yelling "God shall not be mocked" out of context, and subsequently hurl insults and degradation every which way until something sticks, like al dente pasta to the wall. 

    Recently, the Paris 2024 Olympics had an opening show with drag that many interpreted as a mockery of the DaVinci Last Supper painting. That narrative didn't make sense to me, so I waited, I decided to be "slow to anger" and not quickly offended, and wait for the situation to flush itself out.  The parts that didn't make sense, were that there was no supper, what was with the big blue guy, the amount of "apostles" was incorrect, and none of the social groupings were the same as the painting...perhaps the satire was lost on my very literal self, but I just didn't get it...As with all symbolism, many cultures and time periods share symbols - a line up of people on a stage doesn't mean it is inherently a Last Supper portrayal (neither is a white horse inherently from Revelation either). In this case, the artistic designer, Thomas Jolly, didn't intend for it to be that way.  What did he intend? Feast of Dionysus/Bacchanalia. A Greek event, riddled with indulgent pleasure, revelry, and just excessive debauchery - so his "art" definitely makes sense in that context. As does the white horse, Sequanna, the Goddess of the Seine - The same Seine river where the entire show took place... Please remember, we are talking about PARIS(a city swimming in centuries of worldly wilds) and the Olympics - you know, the originally Greek event(also historically riddled with millennia of revelry)?! There has been a whirlwind of press and instagram posts that have followed this original writing that I am now editing, but I still hold to my opinion. 

    I didn't care for the show - what little of it that I've seen, mostly photos. I'm not into drag, I'm also kind of a prude, I haven't let my kids watch it at all. We generally don't participate in most things like this - including the Super Bowl. It's overall not my cup of tea. I am not defending or approving of the drag show in any way, shape or form... I'm also not shocked that Paris did such a thing, also not shocked the Olympics were okay with it. 

What I am not okay with, is the *constant* string of Christians on my feed clutching their pearls about the trendiest thing to clutch - a nonsense, secular, high art show, in another country, that they were obviously not the focus group for, that was based in the context of ancient Greek mythology, for an ancient Greek event, held in an ancient European city. Many, MANY other things have done mockups of the Last Supper, including loads of examples in Hollywood: South Park, House M.D., The Sopranos, etc.  and even SNL did a mockup with Trump at a Last Supper portrayal, after one of Trump's remarks likening himself to Jesus....I didn't know any of those existed till I went looking for them, there was absolutely no outrage when those venues did those sacrilegious portrayals, or even the outright blasphemy of Trump likening himself to Christ - total silence in the Christian community, except for when they applauded it...

It gets dicey here, please bear with me...All that said, Christians loooove to be victims - we can't exert our moral superiority when we are doing a-okay...we have to be downtrodden in order to pick ourselves up with our bootstraps. Therefore we fabricate things that aren't actual persecution, in order to rally loyalty and a sense of fight and dignity, while demonizing the humans around us. A few minor examples include: playing cards, Harry Potter, drums, electric guitars, the Starbucks Christmas red cup era 2015, Taylor Swift, Chipotle being owned by a gay man, Netflix donating to the Harris2024 campaign, and on and on it goes. We perpetually SLAM cancel culture, while we promote boycotts at every turn, we make fun of liberals and "safe spaces" yet are aghast when secular Europeans do secular European things...and we demand they stop...and then post about how we are boycotting an entire global event, because of the choices of a few people...denying the honor the athletes are due, because we didn't agree with an opening show...

My heart is so tired of this...

Subsequently, some time after the show, Paris lost electricity for about an hour in some areas, affecting some 125,000 people, but not for very long. The response by many was "God bless" and "that's what you get" and so on and so forth.  That doesn't gleam with grace or promoting Christ, that screams bitter and vengeful.  Christ could have joined in at stoning the Woman at the Well - he had every "right" to do so, but he showed grace, mercy, and compasion, amidst her multitude of sexual exploits...God could have struck the performers down during the show, and did not - chances are, He's not asking you to do so online...

Another major critic told me she is just trying to be salt, to preserve from rot...As someone who is familiar with salt on the molecular level, as well as a multitude of applications in the culinary world - be careful that you don't salt your words into uselessness. Salted fish is indeed preserved from rot - it's also useless and inedible until you chip away that salt and soak it in milk and THEN prepare it to eat...Salt enhances flavor and texture of food...but too much renders the food inedible...be careful with that delicate pinch...

Jesus said Mt. 5:39 "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the right cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."

Peter said 1 Peter 3:9 "Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult. On the contrary, repay evil with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing."

2 Thess 1:8 "He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus."

Deut 32:35 "It is mine to avenge; I will repay. In due time their foot will slip; their day of disaster is near and their doom rushes upon them.”

Mark 11:25 "And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”

Prov. 20:22 "Do not say, “I’ll pay you back for this wrong!” Wait for the LORD, and he will avenge you."

Romans 12:18 "If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."

If your faith rests in Jesus, then be at peace. Stop taking offense at all these things - whether or not they were intended for offense. It simply doesn't matter. If God is sovereign, then we needn't worry about literally anything, nor should you be stirring up strife and vitriol...

My honest and humble opinion, was that the show was far more of a mockery of the peasant class. I very quickly saw it as an extravagant take on the Hunger Games and their Capitol at Panem, where revelry and riches prevail, while the commoner is stifled and supressed. THAT analogy made sense to me, coming from the French, coming from our own much less intense version of the Hunger Games (The Olympics), while we are in the middle of a low-key class war globally...THAT parallel...that is perhaps where your angst and derision should be directed towards...

Wonderful waffles

#sourdough #discard #scratchcoooking

Giving credit where credit is due, I modified this recipe from the original one at The Pantry Mama. I didn’t want to do an overnight activation on my starter, and really felt like waffles this morning for Father’s Day. I found her recipe and modified it a bit, so here’s my version!

Ingredients:

   WET:

200g discard (active starter is also fine!)

2 eggs

180 g buttermilk (or whole milk is fine)

60 g melted butter

    DRY:

150g AP flour

100g granulated maple sugar*

5g salt

12g baking powder 

Mix all the wet ingredients in a bowl. Mix all the dry ingredients in another bowl. Mix them with each other! 

*the maple sugar makes an amazing taste for these waffles, but it isn’t necessary. You could use less sugar, and/or use white, brown, or coconut instead! 

This made about 6.5 big waffles on my Oster from Walmart. Everyone loved them, including my 3 yo who is notoriously picky. We don’t make waffles often, so this was a nice treat! Enjoy! We topped them with maple syrup and butter. 

~I used mostly organic ingredients, largely from Azure Standard that is certainly not required~

Well butter my biscuit!

 I've been asked for a long time for my "favorite biscuit recipe" and to do a tutorial. I know it isn't anything you haven't seen before, but here's my version!

Dry ingredients:

2 cup all purpose flour ($.75 - I use organic all purpose)

1 Tbsp sugar ($.03 - I use organic from BJ's)

1 Tbsp baking powder ($.19 - I use Rumford[non-gmo/aluminum free])

1 tsp salt

Wet ingredients:

1 stick of butter, frozen, grated by hand or food processor - 8 Tbsp ($.88 - I used conventional from BJ's)

1 cup of cold buttermilk - ($.75 - I used Marburger from Walmart)

Total cost of ingredients is $2.60

Preheat oven to 450.

Mix all the dry ingredients together with a whisk.

Grate the frozen stick of butter using a hand grater or food processor. 

Mix with dry ingredients until butter is all covered in flour mixture and broken into bits.

Add the cup of buttermilk and mix until no obvious wet patches of buttermilk remain.

Pour onto clean, flour-dusted surface. Mold into a mound, cut into fours, stack on top of each other. Press on the mound and clean up edges again, cut into fours, stack again. See video for reference. Do this until you have a cohesive dough (2-3 more times - mounding, cutting, stacking, pressing)

Once you have a cohesive dough, roll dough out to about an inch or so thick. Use a biscuit cutter and press up and down - do not twist - and cut your biscuits. Place on a parchment lined baking pan with edges touching each other. Bake for 13-20 minutes or so. Top with butter if desired.

Alternatively, you can add a cup of cheese, a healthy crumble of bacon bits, and spices like chipotle powder, to make a fun smokey biscuit. You can do maple sugar instead, maybe double or triple the amount to make homemade biscuits for "McGriddle" type sandwiches. I've also done them with garlic and cheddar cheese to make knock-off Red Lobster biscuits as well. It's a very versatile recipe. Try to work fast to keep your ingredients cold. Unlike cakes and cookies where coming to room temp is recommended, biscuits are the opposite - the colder the better! You can also put your dry ingredients in the fridge for an hour or so to chill them and the bowl as well.

Enjoy!

How many times can your heart break?

Salty tears

Will they stop?

My face is tight,

Eyes swollen

Nose stuffed up 

How many times can your heart break? How can it it love so much and lose so much and still go on? And still find love? Can you pick up the pieces? Can you find them at all? Any? Some? Just one?

Many of you know I found myself unexpectedly pregnant in early December. I was elated. I love both being pregnant and being a mother - adding to our family of three living children who would most lovingly welcome another baby was nothing short of a miracle, to me. Emilia (7) has be ardently praying for a baby sister for the last 4 years- to be disappointed with Edmund’s sex three years ago, and onward prayed nightly for a sister…

We felt her prayers answered. 

I have yet to deliver a living baby not conceived in February. I have had an early miscarriage from an October pregnancy, a stillborn from an August pregnancy and now a 9 week miscarriage from a December pregnancy. 

Here I am, February 9, just after my 38th birthday. 

Weary. 

Drunk. 

And in my bed in total darkness, praying sleep finds me. 

I cannot do this again.

From the moment I found myself staring at that faint line 9 weeks ago, I started exercising, making sure I took my prenatals, eating enough protein, taking time to rest, and honoring my body with all its needs and cravings and fatigue…

But this was not enough….

Sweet Baby did not stay within me, but gave me such hope and joy that my tired, crusty old and pudgey body was good for something more than bread and cookies - I had a new life within that I loved so much…

But heartbreak remains…

Will I find a piece to glue to another? I dare not. The fear of delivering a dead baby - yet again- the strength within me fails. 

How can I go on? My three beautiful children await my recovery, while I make plans to deliver their dead sibling - so loved, so wanted, so much a miracle of life.

Pieces of My Heart - where do you rest? For rest is not found, not in my heart, and I am not okay…

Baby H#5 - I loved you with my whole soul and heart and couldn’t wait to meet you…to see the joy on your siblings’ faces, your father’s face, as you rest in their arms, his arms…to hold your sweet hands as you learn to walk, to nurse you in your hunger, to love you heart and soul…I’m beyond wrecked and I am not okay…

Give me grace, friends….I will not be okay for some time…

The only things I have of my baby H#5…a photo of its sweet little self, resting within me…

We named this baby Carwen Bay - Carwen means blessed love, and Bay after the fragrant tree…

Working things out...

Back in the middle of March, I had one of the worst conversations of my life, and I'll spare you those details, but it came down to this - I had realllly slipped on taking care of my health - exercise and diet.  

Background:
I did some kind of exercise almost my entire life - gymnastics, ballet, karate, working out at the gym(mainly in college) and then Beachbody workouts in my 20's. I had been relatively fit my whole life up until bearing babies. I have generally eaten well, also.

When I got pregnant with Samuel(9), I had pubic symphysis disorder(SPD).  You can look it up, but I had it with all four of my pregnancies...it's super painful and essentially your pelvis starts separating far earlier than it needs to during your pregnancy, making working out, even walking, sometimes very difficult and very painful...this was sort of where my downhill trend started... I also had diastiasis recti- a huge separation of my ab muscles - yes, all four babies...and after a while, it's so hard to feel like you can put that kind of damage back together again...

Long story short, I lost all my weight after I had Samuel doing some PiYo through beachbody, but eventually gained a lot of weight back due to weaning him, stress, and a miscarriage. Then I got pregnant with Emilia, same SPD pregnancy, same post partum experience - lost the weight, but I weaned, had Laban (my stillborn) and then the weight didn't budge after that, despite many hard-fought attempts.

I had Edmund in November 2020, and I lost the weight to get back to pre-pregnancy, but I started to slowly creep back to my new max weight ever.  Culver's sundays, general tiredness, lack of motivation to lose weight, and decreased overall activity (I quit my job in early 2020) led to all of these issues.  I felt entirely overwhelmed to add a workout routine and healthy eating to my life, as well.  I also miss Lucky's, our former healther grocer, as it had gone out of business and we were left with few healthy, affordable options :(

So back to the conversation, in March 2023. I'm exhausted - still nursing a 35 pound toddler multiple times a night with no end in sight. I am fat - working out when you are fat is so frustrating, defeating, depressing...

But about a week after that awful conversation, I decided to try doing an old workout I've done dozens of times before - a Turbo Jam classic - Fat Blaster.  I liked it, I did it. I did another the next day and added a short stretch and meditation after. 

I changed how I was eating. I had already been doing protein shakes in the morning, but I stopped doing my easy lunches(pbnj, mac and cheese, etc), and swapped for high protein salads, and tried making *some* low carb dinners. I also stopped eating excess sugar - though I didn't eat much prior, little indulgences weren't insignificant in their frequency.

So I kept doing it....a 30-ish minute exercise, a 5ish minute stretch, and 10 minute meditation. Nearly every day. I took a few rest days here and there, our AC died and I didn't exercise on those days.  

I really wanted to prove my husband wrong - he said if I just put my mind to it, I would lose weight. I told him I wouldn't - so I made my mindset about 4 non-scale things: mobility, strength, endurance, and energy.  I didn't and couldn't focus on weight loss being the goal, because I knew if it came at all, it would be so slow, and that would be defeating all on its own! While I often do a lot of things like long Sea World days, long hikes, gardening for hours in the hot sun, there was definite improvement to be had on the physicality front. 

So I shot for: 30+g protein every meal - B/L/D
Extra protein through my day - collagen in my coffee (11g), 2 cheese sticks(16g), kefir (8g), etc...

And in just a week and a half, I didn't lose weight, but I was way stronger, way more endurance, and way more energy, overall. More calm, peaceful, and clearheaded.  I walk with better posture, I can easily squat to the floor to tend to a kiddo, and stand up easily. 

At the end of the 21 day meditation cycle(missing a few days, so taking me closer to a month to finish), I can officially say I've lost 5 pounds. Surpisigly so. I've finished 38 total workouts (including those short stretching sessions)

I want to say it hasn't been easy. At all. To make time to workout, I am not tending to the dishes, or the laundry....my kids have learned, at this point, to not bother me *as much* but it is a huge challenge to work out with 3 needy children around - stopping to kiss boo-boos, break up fights, grab a snack, prevent lunches from burning, and erase markers off of walls...you get the picture. I make my salad ingredients once or twice a week to keep that easy and simple to prepare - finding time to sit and eat it is another story. So here's a list of the products I use, and what a normal day of eating looks like for me.

Electrolyte powder                Protein powder            Collagen powder

So a normal day for me looks like:

Wake up: glass of water right away.

Cup of coffee with collagen (11g protein)

Glass of water with electrolyte powder 

Workout - ~45 minutes 

Protein - 1.5 scoops, water, a dash of heavy cream (~30g protein)

Lunch: big bowl of organic salad greens, 3 hard boiled eggs, 1 oz of cheese, 3 pieces of bacon (~33g protein)

Snack: two cheese sticks (16g protein)

Dinner: a good sized serving of meat and veg, and carbs (if wanted or needed) shooting for 30+g protein)

Evening glass of kefir(8g protein) 

This brings my protein to around 130g per day. It’s the only macro I count or pay attention to at all. I try not eat carbs/sugar during the day and keep it an easy/low quantity at night. But I’m still eating pasta, pizza, the occasional piece of chocolate…etc…

Ideally, two of my three meals are my high protein salad, and my protein shake, the third being kind of whatever I want it to be, in reason, and with hopefully close to 30g of protein. 

This is the workout schedule I’ve been following….

Printable workout schedule

I use beachbody on demand. I have been using Chalene Johnson's videos - Turbo Jam, Turbo Fire, Chalean Extreme, and PiYo for many many years, and she has many workouts in those series that I am very comfortable with and truly enjoy doing them. I like Andrea, from XB, and her personality and way of explaining things. The meditation is just an added gift to my day. With my background in karate and ballet, I definitely trend towards kick boxing and ballet-barre type workouts, but my post partum body doesn't like the impact. Even within these workouts, some of the modifications, are still too hard for me, with where I am at.  So I do the workout as best as I can, even easier than the easiest option, and I'm still seeing results. I highly encourage you, to just do it, just try. I cannot do pushups, I do them on the wall or on my knees, but I can do the squats great!  Keep focusing on each sucess and try harder on your next growing opportunity. Even if that one success is that you did a perfect jumping jack, or did a set of punches and kicks, or that one sit up was pretty easy...keep going, be proud of yourself and your work!

Anyways, my ultimate goal is another 40 pounds to lose. Once I get there, I may re-evaluate and try to shed another 15 off, but I honestly don't know my thin body anymore...It's been 9 years since I've seen it and weight loss is still not my goal - energy, strength, endurance, and mobility are!  And I'm definitely seeing changes in all of those areas, despite the scale hardly budging!

So if you are in this weird space of not eating well, or exercising, and not seeing a way out of that path...find the path. It might just be a slow thing, of replacing one meal with a protein shake. It might just be doing a single workout, or a simple meditation.  But you might find that finding your path, helps you find yourself a little more.  I hope this encourages you!

In slightly better health,
Becca H.

Slow fashion>fast fashion

 Recently, I’ve been shifting mine and my families clothes/products to be more “slow fashion” instead of “fast fashion”. This is not written to shame or condemn, but to inform. This isn’t something I was aware of until relatively recently.  Perhaps you aren’t aware either. 

Here’s some helpful links if you don’t feel like reading this from me:

Slow fashion podcast - excellent episode! 

Fabrics affect health

Fast fashion damages environment

Fast fashion devalues small businesses

2013 study on linen

SHEIN is gross

From a biblical perspective

Back when I was young, it was becoming known how bad the sneaker industry was…I feel like that shift is coming for fast fashion…

What is “fast fashion”? In a nutshell, mass produced, usually poor-er quality, “cheap” clothing or accessories.  Think an Amazon dress, a target purse, Sams Club jeans, SHEIN clothes, etc…

“slow fashion” includes more sustainable fibers/materials, small businesses, stuff you aren’t usually able to pick up at the National chain store - items that require a bit more forethought.

Let’s rewind a little bit…

About 5 years ago, I was at a Civil War reenactment talking to one of the ladies, wondering how hot the dresses were in the Florida sun. Her reply was sorta surprising - the dresses weren’t that hot - the linen was so moisture wicking, that it was all very tolerable. I explained I was hot in my basic skirt - and she emphasized the need for natural fibers. I was wearing viscose and proudly told her it was made from bamboo - she schooled me pretty good about how it is super processed and doesn’t have the same benefits as linen or cotton. I carried on…but tucked away those tidbits…

A few years later (2019) I was at an herbal convention and a Native American female herbalist did an entire lecture on traditional fabrics and their importance, how they were made, etc….I was floored, but overwhelmed with it all…

I didn’t quite get it yet.

I started avoiding straight polyester, but still wore lots of poly blends and viscose/bamboo….

And I’m not sure what I read or how I got into this…but slow fashion, especially linen, has kind of been my 2022 crush….I learned about the benefits of linen to your body - which astounds me a fabric plays a role in your health….

As my nursing dresses started wearing out(less than 2 years old, fast fashion options), I started seeking linen replacements…while doing this, I started seeing the dangers of fast fashion..I’ll try to keep this as cohesive as I can.

A few benefits to linen are that it is moisture wicking and that it is more durable than cotton. It requires far less attention to grow than cotton - which requires lots of water and often lots of pesticides. It is hypoallergenic, and more antimicrobial than other fabrics. 

Linen recap: it helps regulate body temp, more durable than cotton, more sustainable than cotton, hypoallergenic, and antimicrobial.

 Additionally, linen emits a frequency of 5000 mHz. This is relevant as this is known to help *heal* the body…organic cotton is around 110 mHz, and the human body is around 100mHz at its norm…this is why many bandages have been made of linen for a long time, why royals wore linen...it’s been known to be an amazing fabric for a long time - we just know how to measure that awesomeness now. So it HELPS your health, just like choosing a healthy meal helps your health…your clothing fabric could be part of your wellness. 

Onto the issues with fast fashion…I’m not even sure where to begin with this.  We can start with polyester is actually *unhealthy* to wear. It is a plastic byproduct - as it breaks down, it contributes to the massive microplastics problem in our waterways and our ecosystems (and our bodies!). A huge majority of modern clothing is made from polyester or poly-blends. Fast fashion heavily relies on polyester as its main fiber of use.  Many of these fast fashion companies have been found to have *toxic* levels of lead and other chemicals in their fabrics, even further affecting the environment the your body. Literally, wearing poisonous clothing…in this study polyester inhibited fertility in female dogs and strongly affected, negatively, the fertility of male dogs in this study.  Anything that can affect fertility concerns me what else it is causing problems with…not to mention the growing fertility problems in our country - maybe all of our polyester clothes and products are a part of that equation. 

Additionally, fast fashion requires *cheap* labor. Factories overseas - predominantly in China and Indonesia- use child and women labor at basically slavery pay, to produce these clothes for such low prices.  Often these fast fashion monstrosities steal trends and designs from small businesses as well…which is gross…just awful. 

Fast fashion recap: toxic fibers, possible factor in infertility, slave labor, bad for the environment, devalues small businesses.

So, what is a person to do? Well, there isn’t an easy or cheap solution. Part of the solution requires you not buying that cheap outfit at big box stores and shopping small on Etsy or through smaller businesses…it’s not always easy to find these companies nor is it always affordable. Additionally, we need to be writing to companies requesting them to start sourcing their fabrics more ethically and sustainably. H&M has some great baby options - lots of companies are getting into this with baby clothes, which is great to see! But adult clothes are still *way* behind. 

I’m part of a wholesale club where I have access to small businesses, selling at wholesale prices…these companies aren’t on Amazon, they don’t deal with big box stores. They are often family run, people are paid ethically and the materials are sourced sustainably. 

So in recent months, I’ve gotten rid of basically all of my polyester clothing. I have a few leggings from Earth Yoga (BJs carries that brand sometimes) that are organic cotton/poly blends that are helpful for yard work and exercise, etc. I’m actively trying to buy only cotton clothing for my kids- which is quite challenging for my older two. Amazon does have some organic cotton underwear that we LOVE from Amazon! We have used the Lucky and Me brand for many years and they hold up amazingly well, also! We’ve tried other brands too, and my kids come back to these as their favorite! I may start buying fabric and sewing linen dresses for Emilia until she is big enough for the companies I’m using. I’ll likely be starting a co-op to sell linen womens clothing - I’m still having a hard time finding men’s clothing that is linen, but it’s much easier to find all cotton options in men’s clothes, I feel.  We use organic cotton bedding from Target or California Den on Amazon. I have been wearing Earth Shoes and I love them! I recently bought a leather purse and leather wallet on Etsy - handmade with excellent quality! Totally worth the wait for shipping and the cost difference was minimal between them and reasonable options at local stores. 

We certainly aren’t perfect, and we certainly aren’t able to completely rid ourselves of fast fashion entirely, but I think we have a foot in the door and are well on our way to making changes!  I hope this article was helpful and informative! So whenever you can, try to pick slow fashion options:) if you have a favorite slow fashion producer, put it in the comments! Me, in one of my favorite new linen dresses holding my daughter:) 

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English Muffins - sourdough!

 Sourdough English muffins - giving credit where credit is due, @savtwatson posted these to tiktok and I made them at my home. So this is my adapted version! 

In addition to the ingredients you’ll need: a cookie sheet, parchment paper, corn meal for dusting, a cookie cutter or glass, rolling pin, and hot cast iron skillet. 

Overnight sponge:

1/2 cup of starter

1 cup of whole milk 

2 cups AP flour

^^mix thoroughly and cover overnight.

Next morning add:

1/2 cup AP flour

1 tbsp sugar

1.5 tsp salt

1/2 tsp baking powder 

Note: I needed more flour for dusting AND I needed to add a few more tablespoons to get it to set up to my comfort level)

Knead until smooth. Roll out fairly thin. Cut to desired size - note they will shrink a bit when they cook(and puff up) also, so keep that in mind.

Add parchment to a cookie sheet - sprinkle corn meal over the parchment and put your rounds onto the sheet. Sprinkle more corn meal on top, cover with a towel for at least 45 minutes.

Preheat your skillet and set to medium high - mine was at a 6 of 10 on my propane stove.  Gently place your rounds on there, cook several minutes on each side- cool, and enjoy!

These taste amazing and so easy and affordable!