Homemade Focaccia

With time on our hands around the house, we have been doing some baking, both for the fun and for the end result. Amp and Julia have made banana bread and oatmeal raisin cookies. Amp and Grace have made lemon pound cake and lemon curd to go with it. I am not much of a sweets baker, but do have an interest in baking breads. Until my "once every 5 or 6 days" food shopping trip at 7am this morning, I hadn't been able to find yeast. Today I found it.

Tonight I gave a little bit of assistance to Grace in making homemade focaccia. It's an easy recipe, with the only down side being that you need to plan ahead, as you have about twenty minutes to get the yeast started, and then two rises of about an hour each, followed by 25 minutes or so to bake.

After the first rise and in the pan

The first rise is in a ball in a bowl, the second is after flattening and stretching the dough in the pan.

Rosemary focaccia

A simple brush with olive oil, sprinkling with rosemary and kosher salt, and then into the oven.

This is the first time we have made this, and it is out of this world. Plus the whole house smells wonderful.