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| I have been wanting to make some bread for a while now and some talk of bread and starters on another forum I felt inspired. With the Daytona 500 approaching quickly yesterday I started it in the morning.
Although the recipe called for me to do things differently I always like making a poolish of sorts. Started with adding some yeast to warm water along with a lil sugar and flour. Let that sit until bubbly.
Once the poolish is mixed into the remaining ingrediants and allowed to rest and rise I started in on some onions. The focaccia I planned was going to be a carmelized onion and herb focaccia. Here are the onions started to cook.
While they were cooking I picked through my fresh herbs and added them to a food processor. Gave them a lil chop with it before adding in the oil.
The onions progressed at a nice pace over a med/low heat. Here they are getting a good color. Just about done.
The chopped herbs were then pulsed with olive oil in order to infuse some of the flavor into the oil and allowed to sit until needed.
The onions are done and cooling in the background and in front is the dough after rising and punching down.
After allowing the dough to rise again I used my finger tips to put some pivots in the dough and then poured the herb infused oil over it and rubbed it it.
Spread the onions over the top and sprinkle with some chopped herbs and course salt.
Cook at 400 for 20 minutes (Maybe a little longer to offset the moisture from the onions) The smell of this was incredible i the house. The herbs and onions were so aromatic it killed me. I was so very ready to try a slice once it came out of the oven.
The crumb was nice and even and the bread itself was very tender. The flavor was incredible. There is nothing left of this bread. I will have to make it again soon.
Add to this the chicken and sweet sausage gumbo I made and we had a feast.
Vegetarian: Old Indian word for bad fisherman.
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| | I have a weakness for bread . . . any kind of bread but fresh baked foccacia is pure torture!! I love herbed bread too!! Mmmmm, you could slice up some calamata olives and sundried tomatoes too! I have one of my dad's recipe books and in it is a dough for deep dish pizza that we used to make together. Well, the dough itself has great flavor and I've used that to make stuffed breads, foccacia, cinnamon rolls, etc. You're killing me Vlap!! Trice |
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| One day when you are home let me know.. I will come up and we will cook up a storm for the fun of it. Bread included.
You and McCabe just have to let me know when and I will be honored to do so...
We can plan a trip and catch some fresh fish for it if you would like 
Vegetarian: Old Indian word for bad fisherman.
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| | That's a plan!! Definitely since now we are with boat!! We actually get to go pick up our 2200 Bay Ranger tomorrow so catching dinner will be a must. By the way, if you're still single, I'll make sure to have a single girlfriend over for dinner that night too (if it's all right with you). |
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| That would be just fine...
Fish taco's tonight! Look for a report coming.
Vegetarian: Old Indian word for bad fisherman.
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