Cooking with Tata

Sorry this took me so long...

So Tuesday, dad had the day off and had planned to learn how to make pita bread from Tata and so Scott and I joined. It was a blast! We didnt just learn how to make pita bread but also grape leaf rolls and my favorite, "Christmas cookies" and stuffed potatoes. So here are all the recipes and photos of us attempting and succeeding at the pita bread :)

Pita Bread:

Ingredients:

• 5 cups of flour
• 1/4 oz of yeast
• Water
• Salt

Directions:

• Pour yeast in a 6oz cup, add 3oz of water and salt to taste.

• Allow yeast to rise above the top of the cup

• Pour yeast into flour

• Add yeast to flour and yeast; start with 8oz of water

• Work the dough with flour until it's not sticky

• Pinch off dough into small balls about the size of a large egg, and place on
a towel.

• Roll balls into thin circles

• Let dough sit for 90 mins. to rise

• Cook for 8 mins or until golden brown













Once they are rolled and flattened, you lay them out on the table for 1 1/2-2 hours then bake and they look like this:





Then Tata taught me how to make my Stuffed Potatoes. You take a pound of meat, brown with onions, salt & peper. Peel the potatoes and with a special tool, hallow the inside of the potatoe (just dont go all the way through like I did) and stuff the meat inside and make sure to plug them up! :) Take some tomatoe paste and add water to make sauce. Pour the sauce over the potatoes and bake for 350 degrees for about an hour (more or less...check for softness)



and ta-da! stuffed potatoes :)