Non-Naan

The May 15th recipe for Tuesdays with Dorie is Oasis Naan from the book Baking with Julia.

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This Naan was tasty and easy!  However, my half-Indian husband looked at my naan, took and bite, and said "This is good, but isn't naan."  I valiantly tried to defend the naan-ish bread, "This is Julia Child naan, it is white person naan!" (I call all the Indian food I make white-person-Indian-food, because well, I'm a white person making Indian food.  That way I can defend my attempts at Indian-European fusion (or failed attempts at traditional Indian) when he points out it's not like what he grew up with.  Because it isn't SUPPOSED to be!)

Took the naan to a party, and the other guests agreed with my husband.  I still got great satisfaction out of eating this bread and it was crazy easy.  The early ones did end up a little overly puffy (another non-naan characteristic my husband pointed out) so I went a little crazy with the fork poking holes in the later breads and that seemed to work better.  I have a pretty well-stocked kitchen, but I do not own a baking stone or a pizza peel and they would have been very useful for this recipe.