Showing posts with label pitas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pitas. Show all posts

Saturday, March 21, 2009

"Extreme"ly satisfying!

Today for lunch, my sister and I went to Extreme Pita. It was quite enjoyable. Normally, when we are out grocery shopping et al. we go grab some shawarma but today we went to a different grocery store that was closer to the Extreme Pita than it was to any good shawarma place. I enjoy Extreme Pita because of a few reasons:

  1. There is more than one size available.
  2. You can get various vegetables grilled.
  3. You can get freestyle pitas as well as chef creations.

Compared to Pita Pit, that is good because, well, Pita Pita doesn't have any of those things (Well, not since I was last there last summer). I also find, at least in Canada, that there seem to be more locations of Extreme Pita than there are of Pita Pit. I know there a quite a few locations in Regina, SK while Pita Pit only has two (which I have never been to, but I have been to Pita Pits in Montreal and Boston). I am not even sure where a Pita Pit is in Ottawa.

Wednesday, February 18, 2009

"Seven is never an appropriate number of pitas to eat"

Mmmmm...homemade pitas! So good! recently my sister came across this website called Choosy Beggars. Its a website that has a bunch of different recipes and the descriptions of the food are so vivid and funny that I am less opposed to the act of cooking than I might otherwise be. On Sunday, with inspiration from the website, my sister made something called Kibbeh which is a really tasty Lebanese meat dish. She also made the homemade pitas. They were really good, which meant that they didn't last all that long. So today I made more of them. They turned out more like flatbread both times, but I am sure that with the rate we are going through them, eventually we will have them turn out more like pitas. The pita recipe from the website is really quite easy and after having fresh pitas I am less likely to want the store bought pitas. But really, when aren't homemade fresh bread products better than store bought ones? On Sunday, my sister only made ate of the big version of the pita; today, I made the 16 smaller ones. I ate quite a few, because a) fresh pita! and b) how could I not?