Thing 3

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Thing 3 was a card, with woven paper strips and ribbons. You can see the weaving from both sides of the front of the card.

http://thing-a-day.com/thing-three-card-with-woven-inset

This will go on facebook after I've given it to the intended recipient, who I'm pretty sure doesn't read my lj or thing-a-day. I hope not anyway.

I also made dinner with Azure, which I didn't photograph and count as "my thing" because I've made it all before. Perhaps I will get lazier as February goes on, but right now I feel like making food I've made before and would have made anyway does not count as my Thing. But dinner was all home made and from scratch, even the Caesar salad dressing and the pita bread (so cute and puffy!).

We have Mr. Jj staying with us for a little while. Good stuff.

Comments

[tesla]

Oh! I would love to have your pita bread recipe, if you would be so kind.

Thank you!

BTW, I'm really enjoying your "things." I can't say that I'm making a thing each day (except food, of course), but I am learning to make stained glass, which is fun!

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I'm glad you're enjoying! And I look forward to seeing your stained glass. That stuff is so beautiful.

The recipe is from the bread machine cookbook, because I start the dough in the bread machine. So I'm not sure exactly how long you are supposed to knead it. But I do know that the time the "dough" cycle takes is 1 hour.

Makes 10 pita pockets
1 C + 3 T water
1 T oil
1 t lemon juice
1 1/2 t salt
3/4 t sugar
3 C whole wheat flour
2 1/4 t yeast

After the bread machine does its dough cycle, or after something like an hour of kneading and allowing it to rise:

Preheat oven to 500*F. (Yes, 500.)
Divide dough in half, and then each half into 5 balls - you want ten roughly equal balls.
On a lightly floured board, roll out each ball into a circle 5" across.
Cover, let rise 30 minutes.
Carefully transfer circles to a large cooling rack.
Place cooling rack on oven rack.
Bake at 500*F for 5 minutes, until puffed and tops are just beginning to brown.