Make Your Own Pita Bread

Have you ever read the ingredients on the packages of mass-produced baked goods?  It's like you are reading the contents of the "L'il Mad Scientist" chemistry sets of our youth, totally creeps me out.  So, I decided to learn to bake my own bread.  It is really amazing how easy baking bread is, and how little it costs (time aside, but that isn't a lot either).

So, I needed some pitas for a diabolical recipe I created (to be posted later) and I had two choices, go buy some chemical-laden ones at the grocery store that are all rubbery and bland, or learn to make them on my own.  I opted for the latter.

These are plain pitas, you could dress them up by adding minced onion or garlic, or by adding in some herbs.  All would make for some tasty pita.

Pitas are, traditionally, made in brick ovens at very high heat.  Since we don't have brick ovens (I assume) we can come close with our regular oven at high heat, close to the flame source...  Enjoy.