Seeded Flat Bread

I tried Heidi's Seaded Flat Bread recipe tonight. Let me tell you right now - one thing is to follow the damn recipe, it is a complete different thing as to understand what it means (at no fault of Heidi).

What exactly does it mean by "by hand stir in the olive oil and cold water until the flour completely absorbs the water"? And what about whether the dry mixture are supposed to be mixed? Ugh! The instant frustration went on until I realized that I don't have a proper Kitchen Aid mixer! (Er, yeah, I am not yet willing to commit to a $300 mixer!) Now, the recipe asks for putting the dough on a dough hook on the electric mixer for 7 mins. God knows how long it took me to try to hand mesh this dough until it's some what to my satisfaction. Oh, let me footnote here and right now - when I say "to my satisfaction" that doesn't mean jack! Heidi's recipe calls for "smooth and sticky dough." WTF is a smooth and sticky dough? I had no idea....

Well, all I can say is that I chopped the thing into 6 pieces, rub it with olive oil and rushed it to be refrigerated. I'm guess tomorrow is when I can tell how it turned out.

So much for cooking as a stress-release mechanism. I'm definitely way more stressed out than before I made the dough!