would the pita be puffier?

4-26-2020 Sun. 


WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | bread and cheese | fruit
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- tea
DINNER ---  cocktail | homemade baba ganoush | homemade pita bread |  parboiled baby spinach with pickled seaweed seasoning |  smoked salmon 

• wetter dough, higher temperature. puffiness did not increase. call for more experiments 

Lebanese pita bread

7-31-2010 Sat. warm, sunny.

WEEKEND BREAKFAST --- coffee | pancake with Chinese leek filling | lychee | watermelon | peach
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- Japanese steamed green tea | steamed Manila clams | lychee
DINNER --- (at Me Jana Lebanese restaurant) grape leaves | hommus | feta salad | baba ghannouj |makanek (Lebanese sausage) | pita bread | Turkish beer

• the best is the pita bread, perfect fine texture and paper thin. some research and experiments need to be done to achieve that at home
  

Lebanese pita bread

4-26-2010 Mon. mild, rain


BREAKFAST --- coffee
LUNCH --- rice with stir-fried Chinese string beans with chili sauce
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- green tea
DINNER --- (at L. T. Lebanese restaurant) pita bread | baba ganoush ( eggplant dip) | humus | stuffed grape leaves | kibbeh ( meat balls) | Lebanese beer

• pita bread at L.T. is very good

Homemade pita bread

1-14-2010 Thu. not as cold, sunny

BREAKFAST --- coffee | Pocky pretzel stick
LUNCH --- pasta with shrimp | apple
AFTERNOON-TEATIME --- Wulong green tea | clementine
DINNER --- king mushroom and winter bamboo shoot simmered in dashi stock | sauteed chive flowers and cured tofu | spiced red lentil dal | pita bread | red wine

• It is tricky to bake pita bread in a home oven, it needs high heat. About 70% of chance so far that the bread would puff up to form the pocket. Today it is a 100% success!