We’re going to take FOCACCIA? Oh, boy…olive oil to lick off my paws!
Well, not really 5-minute and not made of kitties, just doing a little alliteration there, but that’s about all it takes to stir up the dough and (after the 30-minute rise during which you can do lots of other things) form the focaccia. The focaccia takes only 10 minutes to bake.
Here are the pics first as mama thinks this will help explain the easy instructions:
WET dough
POUR the dough, do not push down.
Brush with olive oil.
With vertical fingers, pull the dough into the shape below.
Sprinkle with fresh rosemary and coarse salt.
Bake until golden brown. The smell will drive you nuts…
SUZANNE’S FOCACCIA
Heat oven to the highest temp you have, usually 450 or so.
In a mixing bowl, put 2 cups warm water, 2 packages of instant yeast, 2 scant teaspoons of salt and stir in 4 cups of plain white flour, stirring just until the dough pulls slightly away from the sides of the bowl. This dough is fairly wet. Do not put your paws in it as you’ll be cleaning them for hours.
Cover with plastic wrap, put in a warm place and let rise until about double or until the dough looks bigger and puffy. Brush a baking pan with olive oil.
Now this is the important part: POUR the dough onto the pan, scraping it gently with a scraper UNDER the dough to encourage it to fall out onto the pan in a glop (see photo).
Brush with olive oil.
Plunge your fingers into the dough and PULL, gently, gently.
Do this all over the dough, about 4 times.
Sprinkle with fresh rosemary, chopped up.
Sprinkle with coarse salt.
Let sit somewhere warm while the oven heats.
Place in the hot oven and set a timer for 10 minutes, then check the focaccia to see if it is golden brown. Remove and let cool, cut into pieces with scissors, taste, then see how much is left in about 10 minutes, haha.
The mom loves focaccia. We wish we could eat it but she says no.
Hey, it is only flour and water and yeast! Oh, that is for doggies, I forgot, not kitties.
Another of my favourites. I’m loving your mama’s recipes, Loulou.
More to come….mama’s on a roll, I mean, not a real roll, haha, but rollin’.
Well, Mama says she will just go to the old town and buy one if she has the urge for focaccia, LOL – not the same, but she’s not a bread person. HOWEVER – her frittata was delicious. Looked like a bit of a mess, but good. She has found a found another “treasure” from the pasta place in Sanremo – Spaghetti Mezzanotte – that she adds to sauces! oooohweeee! I don’t get to taste it though. I got shrimp and leftover pasta from the frittata with the sauce washed off. Maybe for the best……
Mezzanotte, mama is curious about that one. Italians often eat a midnight “spaghettata”, which is garlic, olive oil and pepperoncino over spaghetti. You cook the first two of course, in the olive oil.
This has a bit of romato in it – and LOTS of peperoncino!! The guy at the market said it’s especially strong and needs to be diluted – with oil – or added into the sauce! Mama saving one for YOUR mama. But for some reason you and I can’t have any. Mama says it’s “explosive – whatever than means!
Love hot….but mama uses fresh pepperoncini if she can get them, also flakes, and will try ANYTHING.
Oh yum, wle can almost smell it baking!
Try it and let mama know what happens. She loves feedback and even little anthros can make this.
Ahhhh – we can almost smell that from over here !
About that 12/12 full moon – it was the last full moon of this decade. (Depending on how you count the decades-2020 to 2029 or 2021 to 2030 )
Papa suggests that decades go from 1-10, not 0 to 9 but who knows how anyone counts. Thank you for that info. The millennium, papa says, was celebrated a year off!