Ambitious Deliciousness – Dont Eat Lazy.

I attended a work event today. It involved breaking a Guinness Book of World Records for the largest falafel ball, coming in strong at 24 pounds! Coincidentally, this past week, I had a really bad cooking day, and made one of the worst tasting meals ever!

Sometimes, no matter how good you are at following recipes, something will go awry in the cooking process. It is super frustrating when you’re unable to figure out why the recipe turned out the way it did. Lucky for you, dear reader, this is not one of those cases. I know exactly what went wrong here!

It’s been a long time since I’ve made pita bread at home, so I thought I’d try a new recipe to go with this hummus and falafel recipe. I ended up with roasted chic pea salad and a very dry hummus that I don’t even want to eat!

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A while ago, I was taking care of a few things around my apartment, when I realized that I had bookmarked a recipe for pita bread. If you haven’t noticed already, I enjoy making things from scratch, especially if I’ve never made it before.

Though the road to homemade pita bread was a relatively painless process, I wasn’t too thrilled with the way mine came out. The dough needed to be a bit more elastic. I think I also forgot to let the dough rest once more before popping them into the oven. I will have to figure out what went wrong and then do another post with the recipe.

Don’t worry. I will post the spinach dip recipe, even though it was an afterthought in order to make up for the mediocre pita bread. At the store, I grabbed frozen artichokes but they were $4.19 for a 8 oz. box so I screamed and ran in the other direction. Fortunately, frozen spinach was on sale so I grabbed two.

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