No, I am not cursing. For those of you who are not Italian and have the horribly bad luck not to live someplace where you are able to buy good Italian food, this is focaccia:
This is a necessity if you want to make authentic panini. I’m sorry but those sandwiches on plain old white bread or rolls just aren’t panini. You have to have the focaccia bread.
I am currently on another quest, much like my pizzelle quest. I want to find the prefect recipe. This batch I made today came out pretty good, especially when you cut it and made a sandwich with pancetta, mozarella & roasted peppers. It was, however, too crunchy. Well I did get to put that new bridge to the test, like I wanted to.
This will be a continuing experiment. Next time I think we will add some milk to the dough to make it a bit softer. This just tasted like thick pizza dough with some extra virgin olive oil & some herbs on top. Not that that’s a bad thing. But still - not what I envisioned.
Between the pizzelle testing and the focaccia experiments, I’m going to end up being one of those chunky Italian grandmothers.
March 29th, 2008 at 11:30 pm Quote
Maybe you should buy one new pair of jeans a size larger…just in case.
March 30th, 2008 at 2:06 am Quote
That looks beautiful, Monk. I had a wonderful bread in San Francisco — a ciabatta studded with fresh green onions. It was called an onion slab, and it was one of the most popular breads of Acme Bakery (based in Berkeley).
March 30th, 2008 at 9:38 am Quote
Being the self-sacrificing, public-service-oriented person I am, once again I am lead to offer my focaccia taste-testing services. Much like my offer in the quest for pizzelle. It’s a tough job, but someone HAS to do it…and if it involves pancetta, mozzarella and roasted red peppers–EXTRA roasted red peppers, please–well, sigh…I suppose I could do that too. Let me know.
SOON
March 30th, 2008 at 9:53 am Quote
Well just give me a day’s notice of when you’re coming here so I can whip up a batch or 2 of dough.
Great, now I’ll have to try that, too. I love bread. I could live on bread.
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that. I can’t go up another size because I already ordered them. I guess this means I better start walking again, if it would only get warmer outside…
March 30th, 2008 at 1:27 pm Quote
dude ya know what is goooooddddd rosemary onion foccicia.. (I can’t spell) it is good.. can’t help you with a recipe though LOL smooch