Thursday, September 20, 2012

kitchen adventures: olive and rosemary focaccia

Being in the funk I've been for a couple of days, I figured the best way to cure my bad mood was to bake. The kitchen is my safe haven, the only place where I feel like I'm completely in control of everything, where I feel like I own the place. I don't feel like that anywhere else, not even photographing, which is somewhat funny. But in the kitchen is where my favorite part of life happens — the eating and the making and the sharing and the kisses at breakfast and the coffee and the love. So I feel good there. It's where I feel the best.

I used a recipe from a Portuguese website and added the olives, and the result was wonderful. Despite being a little short, the taste was wonderful. The recipe is here, if you'd like to see it and attempt to translate it.

I bought the ugliest possible kitchen scale in the world, but it was the only one they had and I was pretty desperate, since the one I had before decided to vanish. Still. Now I kind of like it!

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The recipe asks for fresh rosemary, but I didn't have any. I decided to use the dry leaves I had and I don't regret the decision one bit. I have the feeling it's a lot more inconspicuous than the fresh, and the flavor is still there. 










What do you think? Have you ever made this? Got any advice? Talk to me in the comments!



8 comments:

  1. Wow!! I'm impressed. Any time I try to make something like this it comes out like a rock. :) Beautiful photos and it looks delicious. You have a gift!

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    1. Aw, thank you! I found this to be really easy, but maybe it's some ingredient we have that is different? I also found that respecting the waiting times (30 min after the first mixing and 10 after it's stretched) really make a difference in the way the dough looked.

      Let me know if you'd like me to translate the full recipe for you! It's really, really simple!

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  2. ...I want to eat it. And I don't even like olives...

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    1. Hahaha, want me to make some while I'm in Berlin? (Just little over one week to go!)

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  3. Oooh, it looks delicious! Just a couple of days ago I got a recipe to cook the same! But for sure it won't look as good as yours <3

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    1. Oh, why wouldn't it, dear? I'm sure it'll be amazing! :)

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