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My Oasis Naan bread recipe

Scott D — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 02:32:53 +0000

OK! Sorry for the delay, but here is my Naan bread recipe. It’s really simple and you can have the kids help out.

2 1/2 cups tepid water (about 90 degrees)
2 teaspoons active dry yeast
5-6 cups bread flour (I use King Arthur)
1 Tablespoon salt
(sesame seeds)

Put water and yeast in a large bowl and stir to blend. Add 3 cups of the flour, about a cup at a time, stirring with a wooden spoon. Beat for about a minute to develop the gluten. Sprinkle the salt over the mixture and slowly add more flower, a cup at a time, and stir until the dough is too stiff to work with.

Note: you may not have to use all the flour… I never really do.

Turn dough out on a lightly floured work surface and knead it for about 10 minutes until it’s smooth and easy to handle.

Then put dough in a lightly oiled bowl, and cover with plastic wrap. (I use Pam.) Let it sit at room temp for about 2 hours. If it goes longer, its ok… you can even put it in the refrigerator for up to 18 hours.

Preheat oven to about 500 degrees. Punch down the dough, and cut it into about 4 or 5 pieces. Shape them into oval shaped balls 6×8 inches and let them sit for a few minutes to rest the gluten.

Get a bowl of water to use (this is where the kids can help.) Take one piece and flatten it out by getting your fingers very wet and pressing them into the dough and make lots of deep dimples in it. If you make small holes, its ok. (It’s actually good for the texture.) The more wet the dough gets from pushing on it, the better!

The pick the piece up and gently pull it in a long football shape 5 inches wide and about 12-18 inches long. If there are holes in the dough, its all good.

Put some cornmeal on a peel, or use parchment paper and place on a baking stone in the oven for about 5 minutes. It cooks quick, so watch it closely… it should start to brown all around the edges. You can have 2 in the oven at one time if you are comfortable with it.

Before you put these in the oven, you can put sesame seeds on top or olive oil with a few garlic cloves pressed in, or you can put cinnamon and sugar on top after it comes out.

Thats it!

Time to dust off the Scrabble board

Scott D — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 20:10:04 +0000

The holidays are approaching…

No Interwebs

Scott D — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:15:40 +0000

We have no access to the Internet at the moment. Madison went to a big birthday party today, but I will have to share more if that with you later.

Stupid interweb. These series of tubes can get clogged, I guess.

**this entry done via a crappy phone**

Embry Riddle University Outtakes

Scott D — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:06:46 +0000

These are the outtakes from the promotional video created this year. This is better, I think.

EDIT: This was removed, but if I find a copy, I will repost it… sorry!

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Scott D — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 05:51:34 +0000

old 35

uhg.

We need to help the health insurance companies NOW! PSA

Scott D — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:50:49 +0000

This is an important PSA about saving our health insurance companies.

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

Sunset State Beach

Scott D — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:41:21 +0000

I haven’t updated in a while because, well… I’ve been busy! We are home after a LONG but very fun summer of camping and hanging out with family. I will post more stuff soon, but this is where I left off.

We went camping at Sunset State Beach Park near Santa Cruz. We camped with Benita and Chester, the Magdic family, the Poore family, the Smiths, and several others… over 26 people. We had a great time and the weather was a nice cool change from Fresno.

More Comic-Con stuff 2009

Scott D — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:54:18 +0000

Here are some more photos from Comic-Con and a link to a video from my travels.

Photos from Comic-Con

Scott D — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:05:47 +0000

I am in San Diego at the Comic-Con and staying at my friend Vince’s house. (He’s a helicopter pilot in SD) The comic book convention is not just comics, it shows off new books, art, movies and a ton more… and there are THOUSANDS of people here. I also got to meet up with my friend Eric Thorne, who first introduced me to this convention. I also got to meet Edward James Olmos!

At the Mendicino KOA

Scott D — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 04:32:53 +0000

We are at the Mendicino KOA and it is really nice here. The only problem that we (I) have is that there is almost no cell phone coverage here and extremely limited internet access. If this gets posted, I will be impressed that it was able to squeek in.

We spent the last few days at the Layman’s ranch in * and it was a great time. Jan and Steve Layman are very long friends of Chester and Benita (my in-laws) and they have a great place. I think I was able to upload a couple photos to my Flickr account, so check the photos on the side bar for the latest. The Laymans had a HUGE party, as they do every year, as it turns out, and there were close to 45 people eating a huge buffet of yummy food.

They had a pool, lots of beer, lots of food, lots of wine, and uh…. some other stuff….

We went to the farmer’s market yesterday and they had some really amazing quilts… one that had the entire story of the Very Hungry Catapillar. We ate BBQ food and Mexican stuff… very good. (Im running on wine at the moment and this internet is WAY slow.)

Now we are in Mendicino and the weather is cool but not bad at all. People are very nice, and there is currently some Mellisa Etheridge (sp?) being played in the distance and Shana and I are drinking some wine that she won for $30 (worth $90) at an auction that was held after her 10K run. Its time for more wind and time for me to kick my wife’s butt at cribbage.

PS. Sorry for the spelling errors, but I am counting on a small rat to power this internets connection. (The wine doesn’t help it, either.)