homemade pita chips

I made some ww pita bread that turned out rather poorly. I was making this for a party we were attending so pita chips were a possibility anyways but after I saw the pitas they were a must (= For one, I used my bread machine for the dough (which is probably more trouble than it's worth anyways with pita bread) and was not happy with how sticky the dough was after it had already risen (because I was not hand kneading it to know that it needed more flour!). So, I ended up adding more flour which, combined with not following rising times well, turned out a less than beautiful product. Thankfully I have this sweet cookbook and a useful recipe:

INGREDIENTS

4 8-inch whole wheat (or regular) pita breads, cut into wedges

1/4 c olive oil

1 tsp salt

1. Using a kitchen shears, cut around the outside of each pita bread to separate it into two rounds*. Brush the rough (inside) side of each pita with oil and sprinkle with salt. Stack up all the pita rounds and cut the stack into six pieces. (Sixths)

2. Adjust the oven rack to the upper-middle and lower-middle position and heat oven to 350. Spread pita triangles smooth-side down over 2 rimmed baking sheets.

3. Bake the chips until they begin to crisp and brown lightly, about 6 minutes. Remove baking sheets from the oven and flip the chips so their smooth side is up. Return the baking sheets to the oven, reversing their positions from top to bottom, and continue to bake until the chips are fully toasted, about 6 minutes longer. Remove baking sheets from oven and cool the chips before serving.

*I didn't have to cut many of them because most of my pita bread was very flat to begin with.

I thought they were delicious!

a dress

The tutorial

I unwisely did not follow the directions of making it 1 inch wider at the top for a less than 12 month old and/or non-stretchy fabric (both of which apply to this dress) so it is definitely a tight squeeze to get Averi in to. Once she's in it, it fits well! (= I made another one with different fabric that is bigger and stretchier but haven't tried it on her yet.

a dress at first, a shirt at last

another easy, use-fabric-I-have sewing project

It was going to be a dress till I ripped it (oops) to right about this length. In hindsight, I think it may have been a happy accident. Averi usually wears onesies or shirts unless it's Sunday anyways.

"Liberty Ball"

easy patterns/tutorials, that's what I like
I have been given scraps of fabric from here and there. I sewed some together to form this patriotic specimen.

Happy Independence Day!

baby food making

Recipe for Brown Rice Cereal

I made one batch and froze most of it in a silicone ice tray. In my opinion, the consistency after freezing/thawing was equally as good, if not better, than the first day.

Averi's room

Averi's giraffe room is finally feeling finished
the little sign on the door was from Averi's bassinet at the hospital

the giraffe theme was inspired by the picture above which I saw and liked before we were pregnant. here it is more clearly

I liked "gender neutral" giraffes for our gender surprise baby...

... and the nursery letters, changing pad cover, etc. help make the room more pink for our Averi girl

my favorite part of the room (=

tastiness

I was recently sharing my feelings of silliness for wanting to share recipes because sometimes I so loosely follow them. This is a great example. I make "it" pretty often and/or have some in the freezer. The only thing is I don't really measure much, use like a #10 of tomatoes from Sam's club that I puree (sans juice), don't use lemons, dump in some-odd packets of peppers from a pizza place, don't use that much EVOO...

it's a great recipe. (=

These next suckers are my, "I want chocolate in the form of bread but don't want to eat 'real brownies'" satisfy-er.

After making them multiple times slightly differently, I liked the outcome of my last batch:

Ingredients

• 3/4 cup ww flour

• 1/2 cup sugar

• 5 tablespoons cocoa

• 1/2 teaspoon salt

• 1/2 cup nonfat plain yogurt
  

• 2 eggs

• 1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

1. 1

Combine sugar/salt and wet ingredients, add cocoa, add flour

1. 2

Bake at 350 for 25 to 30 minutes in an 8x8 or 9x9 pan. (though I went for a double recipe/bigger pan)

I like frozen/cold desserts so I cut them and wrapped them individually in saran and stuck them in the freezer.


And...
Applesauce: so easy and so so yummy
my mom got a killer deal here on apples so we ended spending about $2 for about 30 cups of applesauce

and it's so easy!
I looked at this for guidance but we did not use exact measurements, it didn't need sugar, and we waited for the cinnamon till we topped off our individually servings.