An invitation for Bread Baking Day #7 - Flatbreads

I see more and more people doing a great job in baking their own bread. Bread baking isn't boring at all: you can go for a huge variety of flavors, textures and shapes. Please have a look at Eva's round-up of her theme for bbd #6: shaped breads part one and two.

I am proud to be the host of the 7th edition of Bread Baking Day, a monthly event which was created by zorra. With my theme flatbreads I'm going a little bit back to the roots.

Flatbreads were the first breads (people have been making them for more than 6000 years) and exist in almost every culture. They can be leavened or unleavened. They can be made from every grain, even from legumes such as chickpeas or lentils. For some of them you don't even have to use an oven for baking, a griddle, a pan or an inversed wok is sufficient.

Think of indian chapati, naan, dosa or paratha, of italian focaccia, ethiopian injeera, swedish knäckebröd, scottish oatcakes, turkish pide, mexican tortilla, jewish matzo, armenian lavash, south tyrolean Vinschger Paarlen... this list could go on and on. As there are so many pure flatbreads I would like you to exclude rich ones like pizza and related baked goods.

I  would love you to participate and join flatbread baking day. All you have to do is bake a flatbread of your choice, take a photo and blog about it between now and March 1st. Please include a link to this announcement. Inform me on your entry by sending an email to Chili(dot)und(dot)Ciabatta(at)gmail(dot)com including

• your name 
• your blog’s name and your blog’s URL
• the recipe name and the post’s URL
• your location
• for non-English posts, the language it is in (I prefer entries in english, german or french)
• please attach a photo of your bread (200 pixel in width)

The round-up will be online shortly after March 1st. Happy baking!

Comments

[Kommentiert von: Eva]

Gerade die richtige Gelegenheit, um noch einmal eine Foccacia zu probieren (mein erster Versuch ging irgendwie daneben)...oder doch lieber ein Vinschgauerl..;-)

[Kommentiert von: Holly]

I am so excited for this one. I have a couple of ideas of what I will try. Thanks for the great theme!

[Kommentiert von: Kittie]

Great event!

I made my first ever flatbreads last month (http://kittensinthekitchen.blogspot.com/2008/01/sri-lankan-workshop-coconut-rotis.html)
and look forward to having another go!!

[Kommentiert von: Sandy]

This sounds like great fun! Flatbreads are perfect for both beginning and expert bakers--so much to experiment with. Here is a permalink to a focaccia post I put up recently--so easy, maybe it will encourage someone to participate? Happy baking everyone!

http://www.localfoodblog.com/2008/01/23/rosemary-parmesan-focaccia/

Thanks for a wonderful blog!
All best,
Sandy
www.LocalFoodBlog.com

[Kommentiert von: Jutta]

Prima, prima, prima - ich glaube, ich habe da schon was in petto...super Thema, vielen Dank!

[Kommentiert von: Ritsumei]

What fun! Flatbread is tasty stuff. Looking forward to trying something new for this one!

[Kommentiert von: Asha]

Just sent you my Flatbread thru' e mail, enjoy!:)

http://foodieshope.blogspot.com/2008/02/pomegranate-soup-lavash-and-elephant.html

[Kommentiert von: lamiacucina]

da könnte ich doch auch mal mitmachen. Drum hab ich mir schon das Banner gepostet als Zaunpfahl, der mich jeden Tag dran erinnert: "Probiers doch".

[Kommentiert von: Petra]

Hallo @all,
I'm very excited to see the first entries coming in!

Hallo lamiacucina,
es würde mich natürlich besonders freuen, wenn das Thema dich zum Mitmachen (und zum ersten Brot) bringen würde :-)

[Kommentiert von: zainab]

Thanks for the great theme & for hosting BBD#7.

http://arabicbites.blogspot.com/2008/02/al3ish-albalady-egyptian-flat-bread.html

[Kommentiert von: trisha]

Great theme! I've decided that 2008 is going to be my bread-baking year (I'm trying to learn how, so that I'm not intimidated by the process!). My oven broke this month and has yet to be fixed, so a grill-baked flatbread is the perfect solution to keep me working toward my goal.

[Kommentiert von: Lemon Tartlet]

Giving this a try with my first flat bread! http://lemontartlet.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/whole-wheat-crackers/

[Kommentiert von: astrid]

ich bin auch wieder mal dabei!
tolles thema hat spass gemacht nach rezepten zu suchen und das ergebnis war auch noch lecker. :)

[Kommentiert von: baking history]

Hi Cascabel,
I just sent you an email, at the last minute! Just in case, this is the link to my entry http://bakinghistory.wordpress.com/2008/03/01/zwiebelplatz-potato-rye-flatbread-with-onions-bbd-07/
thank you for hosting and proposing such a nice theme!
-manuela