The sleep state and what happens during dreaming is fascinating to me. I sometimes feel like I resolve more issues during sleep than I do awake. I very often wake up with some new idea or a solution to a work issue I'm having. It kind of stinks that I work in my sleep.
I've spent the past two weeks thinking that I needed to schedule my Daring Bakers September before I left for my business trip to Bozeman. That's coming up during this next week. So my I've been walking around convinced that this post was due next Saturday. And then, somewhere in my dream state last night I reconciled the posting date specified with the current date and woke up thinking I almost missed the post date. Yikes.
But in the end--I didn't...woohoo. Because this month's was D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. Our hosts Shel of Musings From The Fishbowl (recipe) and Natalie of Gluten A Go Go went outside the box with a vegan, and optional gluten free, savory Lavash challenge. I'm so glad they did because I loooooove flatbread and had no idea it was so incredibly easy.
The most difficult piece of this recipe was rolling out the dough thin and even enough. Looks thin enough, oui? Mais non. Some portions were thin and crispy and fabulous. The other portions were a little more pita like, but still fabulous.
We also were given full freedom to choose our dip, as long as it was vegan. I was a bit nervous because I kept hearing about so many things that negated the "veganness" of a food. I would never have thought of the how bees would make honey non-vegan. In the end I went for one of my favorites, green olive tapenade. Simple and I think it's vegan with only kalamata olives, olive oil, garlic, pepper and fresh lemon juice. I even left out the parmesan and truthfully, didn't miss it.
I will definitely make this again and often. Fabuwonderifical challenge!
16 comments:
I will definitely make this challenge again too!
Your tapenade sounds wonderful. I also had trouble getting all of my dough thin enough, but you're right, the thicker pieces were just as good!
I like the looks of that green olive tapenade, and yep, that's vegan! Great job.
The tapenade looks wonderful! I'm suddenly craving it ;)
The crackers look great! And I agree... this recipe is definitely a make-again!
I agree with you! These will be made again!
goodness, the green olive tapenade sounds divine! I've only recently learnt to appreciate olives, I want to try this!!
Stunning photos..I was going to use honey in my pumpkin dip..then I googled it and found out it wasnt vegan! Who knew???
Yes..I love my Lowel light..if only I could figure out how to REALLY use my camera!!
Your pictures are incredibly tasty! Well done on the challenge! Love the idea of tapenade with this, makes me feel a little closer to home from my own chair!
These look time consuming but oh so yummy!
i enjoyed your description of sleep state and dreaming etc. i do stuff like that too. just this morning i was thinking/dreaming about a tofu spread one of the daring bakers made and how i could work on it to fit my taste needs.
your crackers came similiar to mine: cracker-y in some parts and bready in others. your tapenade looks delicious btw.
Your lavash looks so paper thin -- mine keeps springing back stubbornly. Why oh why?
Great job! :-)
Gorgeous pictures, presentation, crackers and tapenade. Wow, well done!
Your crackers are stunning! I love the edges. Great job.
I love the edges of your crackers
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