Homemade focaccia topped with black salt & rosemary
Simple tomato salad with olive oil, garlic, salt & pepper
King Arthur's Italian-Style Flour
Focaccia is a flat bread found throughout Italy. I have fond memories of stopping at a bakery in Florence for a black-olive dotted focaccia.
For this homemade bread, I followed the “light-as-air focaccia”
recipe on the back of the bag (which is similar to this “no-fuss” recipe, minus
the cheese) King Arthur’s Italian-Style flour is low in protein, which means the recipe needs less water. I
topped the bread with dried rosemary and black salt.
The recipe was easy to follow and particularly quick. After the
bread cooled, I dipped it in a simple tomato salad: tomatoes, olive oil, garlic, salt and pepper. And that’s
really all a girl needs for a day of poetry writing and editing.
Full Disclosure: I
received the flour for review from King Arthur Flour (thank you!); I was not
compensated for this post. All opinions here are entirely my own.
Do you bake your focaccia on a pizza stone/ceramic, or on something else? What do your think of the King Arthur Italian flour for pizza?
ReplyDeleteI baked it in a glass pan with a pizza stone on the bottom of the stove to help keep the heat high. I haven't tried the flour for pizza yet. Have you? I imagine it would be really delicious.
ReplyDeleteAlas, my Giant doesn't yet carry the Italian flour. So I have to decide whether to pony up for the online price. Probably will -- I've always wanted to be able to twirl my pizza dough overhead, and this sounds like it will give me dough with the right elasticity.
ReplyDeleteI've had luck finding a lot of these kinds of products at the "Social" Safeway in Georgetown, Whole Foods or the Italian Store in Arlington.
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