Depending on the size of your baking stone and of your pita, start putting them in the oven one at a time, or two by two. They back in about 5 minutes, so there's no reason to wait.

Flop the pita onto the baking stone with your hands, or with a spatula if you're not comfortable with that.




Once it's puffed up, remove it from the oven with a spatula. (You can use your hands, but they're sort of easy to tear by mistake) and replace it the the next one ready to bake.

Once you've reached the end of your rows of dough, you'll have a beautiful puffy stack of pita waiting for you to begin your meal.



Trivia: Second only to water, milk was the most-stocked beverage in the Olympic Village---75,000 liters were ordered in!

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Images for this meeting are hosted at linkWe had a request for a hummus recipe, since hummus is the classic pita accompaniment. I don't make hummus at my own house very often because my food processor is the $10 kind that is too weak to make nice pastes. But when I have the opportunity to use nice ones (like my mom's...) Hummus4 cloves of garlicjuice of half a lemon1/4 cup dried parsleysalt and pepper to taste3 tsp hot sauce (Tobasco style, with only cayenne peppers and vinegar in the ingredients list)1/4 cup tahini (ground sesame paste1 3/4 cup olive oil, divided4 cups chick peas, cooked.If you use dried chick peas, soak them overnight, then cook them (Or just cook them in a pressure cooker.) If you use canned, just using them out of the can is fine. Add 3/4 cup of olive oil and all the other ingredients to your whopper chopper, and grind until the garlic is indistinguishablepifro m the other ingredients. Add the chick peas, a few at a time, along with more olive oil, a quarter cup at a time. Be sure to keep processing until everything is very very smooth. If you want to make it extra authentic, serve in a bowl drizzled with extra olive oil and sprinkled with zatar. If you don't have a Middle Eastern Market nearby, blend some oregano, thyme, marjoram, and savory with sesame seeds, salt, and some sumac. less