Biblical proportions, pita and Henrietta

 I was reading online while watching Northern Exposure, and just as I read the phrase "biblical proportions", one of the Northern Exposure characters said it. As if he was reading over my shoulder. Cue eerie music..

This is not cooking, it's the prep for making a gallon of laundry soap, castile soap for grating, borax, washing soda, to be dissolved together then diluted with hot water. Done.

This is cooking. Prep for Turkish pita bread from the Bread and Salt blog.

Here's the dough, risen and ready to be formed. I tried a way of rising it which worked fine. On top of the toaster oven set at low, about an hour, great rising, at least double its size.

 

I made it into a log, used the bench scraper to cut into pieces, rolled each out, about ten minutes in a hot oven

And here's the whole lot, most now in the freezer

Except this one, stuffed with spinach and crumbled parmesan, great supper

 

I'm really pleased with this addition to the bread repertoire. 

And here's what I'm reading for an online book club, very readable, and I keep being outraged over the treatment of minorities even though I knew some of this. Well worth reading, I feel it's a moral imperative for an old white lady to read and digest this.

 

My neighbor's husband is home from India, and A.  brought back the container from the Valentine cookies, refilled with Indian treats. 

She never returns a container empty, very classy.  So I lived another lovely day.