Good Eating Tuesday: Garlic Rosemary Focaccia Bread
Back in December we pretty stopped eating bread--like sandwiches, grocery store bread, etc---mostly. Sometimes, I'll have a half-sandwich at Panera on whole grain bread or I'll eat bread if I've made it myself, usually to go with spaghetti or something. I've only made bread 3 times since December and today's Pinterest recipe I tried for Garlic Rosemary Foccaccia Bread is the 3rd. It was the best bread I've ever made! It was fantastic. Flavorful. Easy. It's kind of a flatish bread baked in a 10 x 13 pan. I stirred it up by hand, though an electric mixer with a bread hook can be used if you have one. (It's not a bread machine recipe) The recipe source recommended a mix of 1 1/4 cups bread flour and 2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour. Mine was a mix of wheat bread flour and unbleached all purpose flour, but she was right--- mixing them does make a good good bread! Also she had a cool technique for proofing (rising) the bread in a dryer---first y...