Olive and Tomato Focaccia

"A traditional Italian flatbread made easy with packet bread mix! Preparation time includes an estimated proving time. Posted for Zaar World Tour 2005."
 
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Ready In:
1hr 30mins
Ingredients:
7
Serves:
4

ingredients

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directions

  • Mix together the bread mix, half the oil, the rosemary, tomatoes, olives and water until it forms a firm dough.
  • Turn out the dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead thoroughly for 5 minutes; return the dough to the mixing bowl and cover with a piece of oiled cling film.
  • Leave the dough to rise in a warm place until it has doubled in size (this will take about an hour); meanwhile, lightly grease two baking sheets and pr-heat the oven to 425 F, 220 C, gas mark 7.
  • Turn out the risen dough, punch down and knead again; divide dough into two rounds, place on the baking sheets then punch hollows in the dough.
  • Trickle over the remaining olive oil and sprinkle with salt, bake the focaccia for 12-15 minutes until golden brown and cooked; slide off onto wire racks to cool, but eat when still slightly warm.

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I live with my husband and 2 cats in Worcester Park; a quiet typical 1930s suburb (which no one has ever heard of!) about 12 miles South West of London. I'm a fair weather gardener and as my husband is a vegetarian I grow a few easy vegetables, such as tomatoes and peppers, mainly in containers. My husband loves growing flowers, the brighter the better, and we have a pretty garden as a result. Our cats, Araminta and Purrl, like it too! I do a lot of cooking and try to keep our diet as healthy and varied as possible. Although I work full time, I use very little in the way of pre-prepared foods. This is partly because of the limited choice of vegetarian meals, which I think are overpriced anyway; but mainly because I like to know what goes in my food! I love using the Internet for all the great ideas it gives me. Last year I participated in the Zaar World Tour (under my previous public name Caroline Blakey), which was great. Mr B and I tried lots of new foods and discovered new favourite meals. Researching recipes for the Tour was really interesting, however as I didn't have time to try them all, some were posted untested. I'm still working my way very slowly through them. To make matters worse I keep seeing other recipes I want to save and have also participated in Zaar world Tour II. So many recipes, so little time to make them! <img src="http://i18.photobucket.com/albums/b112/kzbhansen/Banners/Animation3.gif"> My 'rules' for posting recipes are a) if I wouldn't make a particular recipe, I won't post it and b) if my husband wouldn't eat it, I won't post it. This means that all my recipes are vegetarian friendly. As you will see from the number of recipes saved in my cookbooks, I particularly enjoy making jams and chutneys; I'd say it was one of my favourite hobbies. We always have a good supply of home preserves; my friends and work colleagues are well supplied too. If we won the lottery (say £5m, as a good number) we'd like to give up work, move to the country and buy a place with a bit of land. In my dreams this would be a manor house or old vicarage, with a walled garden, an orchard where I could keep hens, a vegetable garden, etc, etc, etc! In my more realistic moments (the £1m win perhaps) I would like to run a B&B, perhaps offering Vegetarian taster weekends. Luckily it costs nothing to dream.......I’d also love more time to read, do embroidery, learn a language, see more of the countryside; and of course play on Zaar.
 
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