One of my favourite things to do is make bread. Kneading dough is lots of fun and bread that rises properly makes me feel all competent. It's easy to steal the credit off yeast.
Anyways, Adele brought over V'Con and I've been meaning to give the rosemary focaccia recipe a try, so I made a focacce.
It came out really well. The recipe does need an infusion of flavour to really come out well, so I used every Italian herb I could get my hands on, some olives and sundried tomatoes.
I used plain bread flour, which makes it really light and airy.
Another recipe I've been working with recently is a mint-onion pita bread recipe. It's pretty simple. Stir together some mint leaves, coriander, cumin, oil and chopped onion. You can use any pita bread recipe you want. Just divide the dough into balls, roll them out and spread the mint mixture over it. 
Saturday, 10 May 2008
Focacce and Mint-Onion Pita Bread
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I've always been intimidated by baking breads that contain yeast (I like making sweetbreads though) - but wow, your rosemary focaccia and the mint-olive pita look HEAVENLY!! Maybe I SHOULD give bread-baking a try :0)
Those are beautiful!! Focaccia is one of my favorite breads. The simplicity really lets the flavour shine through.
veggiegirl - you really should! It's very rewarding, as long as you don't make getting your hands sticky (a good bread dough should start out pretty wet).
romina - thanks!
Your focacce came out beautiful. Horray for home made bread!
Bread can look so beautiful... as it does here! I like doing the kneading and baking of bread, too, but I hate cleaning up when I pretty much covered the entire kitchen in flour...
those are two incredibly delicious-looking breads!
That focaccia is awesome!
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