Lauren on March 10, 2010

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Bread balloon

I haven’t baked much 5-minute bread this winter, even though it’s so handy and I love bread so very, very much. (Our new oven takes a stupidly long time to warm up, but that’s another story for another day.) However, the few times I’ve made some, we’ve found the easiest, fastest way is a pita bread balloon.

You make up your dough to keep in the fridge, rip off a chunk, smoosh & spin into a circle (yes, I like to throw it in the air, and don’t drop it too often), then bake! No rising time necessary -- by the time the oven is hot (450), throw it in for about 5 -- 7 minutes. Done. Let cool, split, and fill with butter and cheese. Mmmmmmm.

I made a video a while back, and while the first minute is admittedly boring as heck, the last 30 seconds are totally worth it.

One Response to “Bread balloon”

  1. Brad Says:

    I think the bread was rising in response to the bagpipe music.

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March 9, 2010

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Car Talk

Car Talk

Spending 14 hours awake and 3 hours asleep in the car made me do some thinking. I’ve been on plenty of long car trips, and have different survival skills. In no particular order, here are my thoughts.
1. I am not a great driver, but I’m a worse passenger. Car trips take for-ev-er, [...]

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March 8, 2010

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21 hours

21 hours

I went to IKEA on Saturday.
I’ve complained about March already, so I won’t go into the downer side of life right now, but I can tell you that on Tuesday I had a glimmer of an idea – “I could drive to IKEA this weekend. It’s the only weekend where nothing is going on.” [...]

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March 8, 2010

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Pause

I have a good story to tell, but I felt really sick yesterday evening and slept from 4:00 yesterday until just now. Let’s hope that today goes better.
Let’s fill space by …… heck, I don’t know. (My stomach hurts. I can’t think.)

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March 6, 2010

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A pretty good idea

A pretty good idea

So, we’ve been having these fun nights for a few years now, and I finally wised up. Instead of having the Senior class help with with all three fun night, I had two dozen Seniors doing the first one. Picked a dozen from the Senior class and a dozen from the Junior class for the [...]

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March 5, 2010

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More sharing….

More sharing….

Let’s talk breakfast.
1. What do you normally eat for breakfast?
2. What would you like to eat for breakfast – say, a big fancy weekend one?
I’ll go first.
1. Generic Honey Nut Cheerios. The gigantic bag costs $4, lasts over two weeks and is apparently good for my heart. I never run out [...]

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March 4, 2010

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Surprisingly Anti-climactic

Surprisingly Anti-climactic

Nine years and five months ago the Civic had 4 miles on it. Now it has some small amount over 200,000 miles. And I did it all wrong. I should have arranged it so that I was in some exotic place like West Point or Sidney, Cairo or York, Hershey or Madrid, Oxford or Peru, [...]

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