Tuesday with Dorie
Contributing Baker: Craig Kominiak
It's a good thing I made this ahead of time because you can't be in a hurry to make this bread. The dough is easy to make, but you need to let it rise the first time for an hour and a half and the second time for an hour. It then goes into the refrigerator for 24 to 36 hours before you bake it. That's the hardest part of this recipe - letting it rest for that long. I made half of the recipe and had two good size discs of dough to work with.
When I took the dough out of the refrigerator, there were lots of little bubbles in the dough like the recipe said, but not very many large gas bubbles. After gently pressing the dough into a rectangular shape, I brushed the top of the dough with olive oil infused with rosemary and thyme and then topped with chopped fresh rosemary and thyme and sprinkled with fleur de sel. It baked to a nice golden color in 15 minutes. I then brushed the loaf again with the infused olive oil.
After letting it cool, I made ham, cheese and spinach sandwiches for lunch. They were the most delicious sandwiches. The taste of the rosemary, thyme and salt and the crunchy crust was perfect. There was enough focaccia left over to make a sandwich for me to take to work the next day and it was just as good as the first day. This would be perfect bread to make sandwiches for a picnic with because it holds up well and doesn't get soggy.
Visit Sharmini of Wandering Through to see her beautiful focaccia and to get the recipe. You can also check out the focaccia made by the rest of the bakers at Tuesdays with Dorie.
You are making me hungry with that delicious looking ham and cheese sandwich!
ReplyDeleteYour focaccia looks great.
Thanks for baking along this week!
Elaine, great idea to make wonderful ham, cheese and fresh spinach sandwiches with your Focaccia. I am sure that your colleagues must have been envious of the sandwich you brought to work with that homemade Italian bread. And I like the topping of herb-infused olive oil, chopped rosemary and thyme. It all sounds and looks quite delicious!
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Very nice! I was hoping for some good sandwich focaccia myself, but mine didn't come out near as nicely as yours did. Yours looks absolutely terrific! Well done!
ReplyDeleteOh! That reminds me of the focaccia at my favorite pizza place. It looks great!
ReplyDeleteLooks great. But...I'm skipping the fridge time next time as well as making other changes. Nothing noteworthy happened in the fridge and my foccacia had a hard time rising again to become oven ready. We had similar ideas for our bread...it was good, but not really what I expected for the effort.
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderfully delicious, Elaine!! I also loved this recipe…but I never got a lot of big air holes either. The taste was incredible! A keeper for sure! I’m interested in making Nancy Silverton’s focaccia from the LA Times.
ReplyDeleteWow- it looks like you came out with perfect sandwich bread. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteThis looks like it came out brilliantly :)
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The description of your sandwich has my mouth watering, Elaine! Love the look of your loaf, too!!!
ReplyDeleteYour post is one of the first I've seen that used the foccacia as a sandwich. Tasty!
ReplyDeleteWhat a mouth watering photo of your sandwich! We ate almost all the focaccia on the first day (hungry friends over for lunch), so I will have to was it til next time to make focaccia sandwich.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful bread and yummy looking sandwich! It would be nice if it kept longer, though.
ReplyDeleteGreat job! I love the look of the focaccia as a sandwich. Yum! Makes me want to whip up another batch! (but of course that would take too long!) :o)
ReplyDeleteElaine, what a delicious looking focaccia. That sandwich looks scrumptious. We also loved this recipe.
ReplyDeleteSo glad it turned out well (and it does take a really long time)! Your sandwich looks great!
ReplyDeleteYour foccacia is perfect Elaine! The sandwich looks irresistible!
ReplyDeleteI need to make the Foccacia again so I can enjoy it again in a sandwich...YUM!
ReplyDeleteThat sandwich looks wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI am so hungry right now. Wish I had your beautiful sandwich to devour.
ReplyDeleteYou and all the other Tuesday bakers seemed to love this bread no matter how long it took to make. I have to let my TWDBWJ recipes go until I complete my move but after April 1st, I will be back. Hopefully I might get this made sometime this month. It does look delicious and I like your sandwich/picnic recommendation. My on-the-road sandwiches do tend to be soggy. Your foccacia looks as good as it obviously tastes.
ReplyDeleteThose sandwiches look spectacular! Love your combo ingredients - and glad the bread/dough was so easy to make! I'm sure it made your lunch so much better with homemade bread! :)
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