Stone Baked Dish Take Two

 Last time on Nih's Dungeon Meshi Cooking Blog:

"This time NO ONE can stop me!" *door slams shut* "But if you're here who's manning the oven?!" *another door slams shut* "We can't just do NOTHING!" *two doors slam shut* "Mr. Senshi.....FIRE!" *nineteen doors slam shut*

And now the thrilling conclusion.

Welcome back, Dungeon Meshi Maniacs!  It's been a hard week here at Nih HQ. Everywhere I go I've been met with jeers from the public over my failure last time. Children have made horrible lemerick to hop the skotch to in my name. I'm getting egged on the streets!  But I can't let the japes and jabs of the local rabble get under my skin. Regardless of what the sewing circle says I can try and cook again!  Failure isn't in my vocabulary....when it comes to cooking.  I've failed plenty in other areas. Like this blog for one! After giving it a solid thought and a cooking training montage that I did off screen it's time to get back into the kitchen, DMMs, and try to make an edible brick.

If you can remember last time the big failure was the pita I used just didn't stay together in a brick shape. Or together at all.  So my thinking it rather than many smaller pita why not just make one BIG pita?  The recipe I used was for 7 to 8 small pita, could it be used to make a larger one?  I know that I'm going to cut back on the salt but I also plan to cut the recipe in half.  Why?  I want to make sure this can work before wasting all that flour.  Why don't we just skip to the ball phase after everything has been combined and it has done all of the rising.

Remember last time we pulled this apart to make smaller pita.  Well this time we just leave it alone and roll this out.  I decided to just roll it out big and thin.

I realize now that maybe I should have measured it?  Just looking at a static picture really doesn't tell you anything does it?  Sorry, DMMs, I was so excited to try this out that I didn't think of you.  As they say on the streets, my bad.  But it is fairly big!  If you recall the oven has been preheated to 475 at this point with the baking sheet already inside.  This is a pretty well combined dough so it's a little heavy. Be careful putting it in, DMMs!  That oven is SUPER hot.  But same with the small pita keep it in for two minutes, flip and leave it for another two.  I already noticed something different from last week, DMMs.  This time the pita created noticeable pockets.  I succeeded in making Pocket Bread!

Poofy! All that air inside would be perfect for sandwich fillin's.  But that's not our aim.  No, we want an edible brick!  At this point I cut the pita in two.  Why?  We need to crisp this up and an even thinner pita would crip easier.  We just need an edible bowl, DMMs.  And that means it has to hold a shape.

This is where I ran into problems, DMMs.  Remember last week when I said my nice small loaf pan was destroyed by a local oaf?  Well nothing has changed since then.  No matter how many tiny mugs of gin I left out I was not visited by loaf pan restoring gnomes.  The ants had a good time at least.  So I had to use my bigger cake pan.  It's not a perfect fit but I could at least line the walls.

Set the oven to 350 and bake the heck out of this, DMMs.  Twenty to twenty-five minutes.  You'll know when it's done by color.  It'll look far browner.  When the time has passed just slid the brick out.

I'm calling this a success, DMMs!  It kept the shape I asked it to and it was edible!  It is just like eating pita chips that you by at the store.  And the lower salt levels really helped. If I made a larger pita I could use my cake pan. Or if I had a bowl I could put into my oven this would work perfectly.  I have a great starting point now, DMMs.  From here I'll be able to eat all of my flatware. I think I'm going to keep this recipe in my back pocket and come back to it over the years.  OH!  What about putting dip in it and snap off pieces of the bowl to use as a scoop?  That's why I love cooking.  All problems can be solved and even if you mess up chances are you can still eat it! 

That's it for this week, DMMs.  And that's it for Chapter 5 of Dungeon Meshi!  Can you believe how quickly we are eating through this?  I have no plans on stopping so please come back next week for another recipe.  But before we leave this chapter how about one last shot of Marcille in her frog outfit?