BBA Challenge (Week 13): Focaccia Bread

Maris Callahan — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:00:00 +0000

I’m no stranger to focaccia bread. Specifically, foccacia bread with onion and rosemary that was so good I even recommended making it to impress a date (and I promise you won’t wind up with onion breath). I wish I could whole-heartedly recommend Peter Reinhart’s recipe but for the strapped-for-time bread baker, I wouldn’t suggest anything other than the olive oil dough from Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. If you’re entertaining, though, this is the bread for you. It makes enough bread to easily feed a crowd, and a hungry crowd, at that. Peter Reinhart’s dough was difficult to manage because there was so much of it. Between each proof, I thought it might outgrow the pan. I had visions of it ballooning in my oven like a big, sticky dough pillow that I would have to untangle from my oven racks….and what kind of photo would that be?Luckily, the bread that emerged from my oven (crisis averted) was crispy and soft in all the right places and was perfect, when served as an appetizer or as a sandwich, stuffed with fresh basil, tomatoes and mozzarella cheese. Since one of the rules of the Bread Baker’s Apprentice challenge is that […]

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Focaccia Bread with Onion and Rosemary

Maris Callahan — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 00:00:00 +0000

In college, I went to a fraternity formal with a guy. A guy that I liked. That might be par the course for most girls, but at a small school, I didn’t belong to a sorority and had fewer opportunities to, well, fraternize. Not to mention the fact that in high school, I probably would have been awarded Most Likely to Die Alone if there were such an award and if it were based on one’s ratio of school dance dates. Now, this isn’t one of those posts, where I whine and whine and whine about all of the injustices that are adolescence. I had friends who were as happily dateless as I was to giggle in the girls’ bathroom with during slow songs. I also had little shame in my teenage years and I asked plenty of cute boys to dance. Really, don’t feel bad for me, because I probably spent a good part of 1997 swaying to the Backstreet Boys in a high school cafeteria. I digress. On the night of the formal, my date, our friends and I made dinner at my apartment before we all headed out for the evening. We made pasta, defrosted homemade tomato sauce that […]

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BBA Challenge (Week 13): Focaccia Bread

Focaccia Bread with Onion and Rosemary