Oregano, Pepper and Cheese Crackers Daring Bakers July 2012

"How do they taste? They taste like more.”

- H.L. Mencken

Its that time of the month again...when scales seem to be tipping, from left to right...
This one or that one??
This one is more tempting...and then sweet child opines...I WANT THIS! So problem partly solved...One option decided..
but daring bakers offers so many options that it is difficult to make up one's mind.
Same problem this month too...
So I post the one that I photographed first.
Ta Da....

Crazy for Crackers-Oregano, Pepper and Cheese Crackers.
Crackers!

AAND in your face....

Something light, that bursts with a bang in your mouth and tastes divine...and fresh!
In this weather,crisp and tasty is great!
Accompanied with the bite of mustard, or the zing of salsa, and a hot cuppa-tea or coffee ,is up to you.
And supposedly low in calories.
At least they are lower in calories than all your traditional snacks that we love with the rains in India, and away from the dangers of the re heated oil etc.

Baked fresh and at home...
How cool is that?
I worked with a metal ruler to maintain the same size and uniformity...
These were made super quick.

Blog-checking lines:Our July 2012 Daring Bakers' Host was Dana McFarland and she challenged us to make homemade crackers!Dana showed us some techniques for making crackers and encouraged us to use our creativity to make each cracker our own by using ingredients we love.


The recipe is obviously Dana McFarland's.(I used half the recipe, so the weird looking quantity's)
I was a little frazzled (as usual) and baked two types of crackers together. Something weird had to happen, and it did!
The topping for these crackers landed on the second...though no cracker lost out on any of the flavours.
You can add the spice mix over these...or not.
I know that I will not be opening a store bought packet of crackers soon. How about you???
Wanna try???
The original recipe called for Pepper Jack cheese...I used cheddar, for reasons of convienience!

for the

Oregano, Pepper and Cheese Crackers Daring Bakers July 2012...

you need

1/2 cup +1/3 cup flour
1 1/8 cup grated cheese...pepper jack or chili john cheese's don't live in Ranchi..we live with the Cheddar Variety.
1 tsp oregano
1 tsp Basil
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
1/4 cup oil
1/4 cup warm water.

Spice mix
Mix 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp sugar and Cayenne pepper/Kashmiri mirch.

I made the dough a day early and popped it in the fridge...was too pre occupied to bake on Monday or Tuesday. So Wednesday was my date with the oven....we had voltage and power outage issues here. Every time the wind blows a little , a tree falls to its death and we mourn its loss with a power cut!
That puts paid to all our plans!

So Wednesday was a good day...
fingers crossed till the end.

I worked with the food processor, hands are good too.
Flour in, Grated cheese in.

Salt, pepper,basil and oregano added.

I put in some fresh  fennel ...just for the heck of it.

Pulsed, the oil added.

Now time for the water. The recipe called for 1/4 cup, I used a little less than half. The dough came together, 

I brought it out onto cling film and then covered it and popped it in the semi freezer.

The dawn of Wednesday...every thing looks bright and chirpy, the squirrels are out drinking in the bird bath and the poor doves are pecking at whatever the ants left them.

Oven on at 170C/340C.
The dough cut into four parts and rolled out to 1/8 th inch thick.

Working with a ruler, straight lines....
Collect all the scraps and re roll them...if you throw them, like sweet child so sweetly suggested....you'll end up with very few crackers!

Into the oven, 15 minutes later, flip them over and pop them in again...

And ready...

Yum!
Let them cool a bit...and crunch, munch and crrracunch!
You can store these for a few days(if they stay, that is), and if they go soggy on you , pop them into the oven to redress their grief over the weather.

We welcome the new every month and this time, as always lllllllloooooooooovvvvveeeeeee the challenge.

Easy ....is the best way to describe this...

Try this...and dare to be a baker.
Cheers!


So what are you baking today???