Here is a drypoint inspired by happy family days when my Grandma (Voa) used to get up early and make flour tortillas for breakfast on her old black and white stove with the griddle in the middle. As soon as they hit the plate they would be slathered with lots of butter and jam and quickly devoured.

I found out later that she’d learned to make them from a Mexican lady who had moved in down the long gravel driveway.

Now “tortillas for breakfast” is one of our happy family traditions: Mexican tortillas in a Portuguese-American family–holding us together through the years: Flour, salt & baking powder, butter or shortening, and some milk.

In this print we have the tortilla maker and four little hungry kids wondering…who will get the first one?