{"id":232,"date":"2012-04-15T19:08:43","date_gmt":"2012-04-16T00:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/?p=232"},"modified":"2013-05-26T19:10:20","modified_gmt":"2013-05-27T00:10:20","slug":"232","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/232\/","title":{"rendered":"Injera: Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Decided to tackle Ethiopian for Wednesday’s dinner, so step 1 was to get the Injera started today. It’s a spongy sour flatbread that should look like this when done:<\/p>\n

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Unfortunately, the recipe in Exotic Ethiopian Cooking said to use 6 cups of water, but you add the water in four different steps, and it doesn’t tell you how much to add in each one. So I guessed 5c mixed with the flour (1.5lb, weighed out on a scale), and 1c. warm with the yeast (2 packets). It looks soupy to me, but we’ll see! What I have now is a thin batter, covered with a towel waiting to rise. I hope the bowl is big enough…<\/p>\n

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Some folks have said it smells horrible on day 2, but it also says elsewhere to keep at 70\u00c2\u00b0 while rising. I don’t have anywhere that’s that warm, nevermind that warm and well-ventilated. \u00c2\u00a0Just going to keep my fingers crossed that it works on the kitchen table.<\/p>\n

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7pm (1:15 after adding yeast). I think I need a bigger bowl!<\/p><\/div>\n

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8:30pm (3 hrs into rising). And now it looks less appealing. I believe I’ll stop checking until tomorrow \ud83d\ude00<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Decided to tackle Ethiopian for Wednesday’s dinner, so step 1 was to get the Injera started today. It’s a spongy sour flatbread that should look like this when done: Unfortunately, the recipe in Exotic Ethiopian Cooking said to use 6 cups of water, but you add the water in four different steps, and it doesn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melaniehayn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}