Thursday, November 22, 2012

Very successful baking

I haven't made too much progress on the cooking part of my list... until!  Thanksgiving  (especially when it's a 12 day weekend because your office is getting remodeled) seemed like a perfect time to try some things.

First up: Focaccia bread!

By definition, it's a flat oven-baked Italian bread topped with salt, olive oil, and herbs/cheese/whatever you want.  And Nick's favorite bread.  So I turned to the Food Network, found a recipe and went at it.  


Thanks to my handy dandy Kitchen Aid mixer, making the dough was a piece of cake.  It was the first use of the "dough hook" attachment.

Topped with carmelized onions, Parmesan cheese, and some of my huge abundance of basil (seriously, have I told you HOW much basil & sage we have?  Need any??) - and... voila!

The soft, flavorful, tasty, nom-goodness!  
Really delicious.  And lasted about 1 day in our two person household.  Oops!

So #3 focaccia bread- CHECK!
What toppings should we try next time??

1 comment:

  1. On the abundance of basil: It may not be as critical for you cali folks BUT here in WI when you have a bunch in summer you can just blend it with some olive oil and freeze it in ice cube trays and have "fresh" basil (mainly for cooking now) all year long!

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