ONE HAIKU ON MAKING PITA BREAD

Welcome to Poetry Friday! Thank you, Susan Bruck, for hosting here at Soul Blossom Living.

I’ve kept busy this week revising work. I’ve also been reading Mark Twain’s, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Fin. I’ve never read them cover to cover. Twain writes characters with heart breaking humanity. For instance, Twain Huck is unable to be “good” and turn in Jim, an escaped slave, to authorities. He knows if he were a well bred boy and had good character, he would. Twain shows us through character, how slavery corrupted American society. Through his work, we can gain insight into how we became the America we are today.

For an adventure, I baked this week. I have always wanted to make pita bread, and I was surprisingly successful. I read the directions carefully and found it wasn’t that hard. They were crisp and tasty and I surprised my neighbor from Lebanon with some. I used the recipe in my old Fanny Farmer Baking Book, but there are many good recipes on line. Here’s one.

Here are the pita before their plunge into a 500 degree oven . . .

and after.

I wrote a haiku about what I learned about pita:

 Two to three minutes
 
 it takes to bake pita bread-

 same as the sun rise.  

©Janice Scully 2021

I hope you all are well. Have a good weekend.

13 thoughts on “ONE HAIKU ON MAKING PITA BREAD”

    1. Hi Janice,
      I so second Linda!! Exactly what I wanted to write, however on the Keto plan I’d have to see if I can use alternatives. BUT I would make them just once because they look so good. Now if I could only make falafels like King David’s. Hope you are well. We are homing in on nicer weather, right? We have been away as usual so just home. Hopefully we can get together once things settle down some! I am taking a wonderful course online with Georgia Heard and it makes me think of our time at Highlights. I am thinking of heading back and then staying on for an unworkshop time period and hope some others might decide to do that so we could maybe share our poems or prompt ideas. Be in touch.
      Janet Clare F.

      1. Hi Janet! On a nice day I’ll drive out and see you. We could walk and chat. It’s been a long winter and with the vaccine, we can venture out. I’m glad you’re taking Georgia’s Class. I learned so much from her about revision. She’s so helpful and smart.

  2. Janice: I just finished The Underground Railroad by C Whitehead… insightful in many ways. Your pita bread sounds wonderful… we are just at the end of homemade bread also! I like your poem…

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