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INGREDIENTS

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6 corn tortillas

1½ tablespoon olive oil (½ teaspoon on each tortilla side)

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SPECIAL UTENSILS

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baking sheet

aluminum foil or parchment paper

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Serves 6. Takes 20 minutes.

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PREPARATION

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Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line baking sheet with foil Place tortillas on foil so that they don’t touch each other. Use brush to spread ½ teaspoon olive oil on each tortilla side. Bake for 7 minutes at 400 degrees. Flip tortillas. (Be careful.) Bake for another 7 minutes or until tortillas become crispy like a tortilla chip.

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Remove from heat and cool on plate cover with paper towel.

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TIDBITS

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1) Tostada is an anagram for DA toast. Because district attorneys everywhere have loved tostadas, as who does not? However, DAs have an especially deep and abiding love for tostadas that transcends national boundaries and the centuries. If you wish, I can direct you to volumes of research by culinary lawyers.

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2) The tostada craze first infected jurisprudence when in 1920 Pablo Erickson bribed a Manhattan DA to mount a particularly feeble prosecution. Of course, Mr. Erickson was as a guilty as sin, but he was a great chef. (All Mexican-Swedish chefs are. It’s in their blood.) Anyway Chef Erickson served a tostada to the DA each and every day of the trial. Of course, the jury acquitted Pablo. However, this decision astounded the nation. Newspaper headlines screamed, PABLO ACQUITTED IN ERICKSON v GOODNESS.

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3) Hardened criminals took note and bribed DAs everywhere. Our streets teemed with ruffians and bad eggs. The height of our judicial system illness occurred from 1920 to 1933. How do we not know this? Because the Great Tostada Corruption (GTC) coincided rather closely with Prohibition. Sure, GTC and Prohibition spawned corruption, but the bootleggers also emphasized violence. Illegal tostadas simply could not compete with hooch for newspapers headlines. Now you know why DA never let people take their pictures while they are eating a tostada.

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– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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