Jeanie's Focaccia

This is a fluffy, olive oil rich focaccia, this can be topped with rosemary, sea salt, sun dried tomatoes, served with a salad or soup or stews in Autumn.
I don't use a breadmaker....sorry breadmakers are banned from my kitchen...I am sure you wouldn't find one in any Italian home.
I went to Italy and France to learn to cook the proper way, with the real Italians and French.....The main thing I learn't was the LOVE that went into the food ....no mixing breads in machines and shoving into the oven.....no no....kneed the breads with love....the finished product is so much nicer ....
If you have no passion for bread making go to the supermarket...  if you have passion follow my recipe...make it everyday    drop off to friends... wrap in brown paper....brown string .. a gorgeous label...and garnish with fresh bunch of herbs..

FOCACCIA

450g strong flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
4 tbls olive oil plus extra for drizzling
8g sachet dried yeast

oil you pizza tray or rectangle dish
put the flour, salt, sugar, oil, yeast, into a large mixing bowl. Add 300 warm water and mix with hands, do not add more flour this is to be sticky..
Transfer the dough to lightly floured board. Kneed 2 min No longer put into an oiled bowl and cover with t towel.
Leave in warm place for 1 hour or till doubled in size.
Knock back dough , give a firm punch, then press into the tin and press finger tips over the bread, let rise again for 25 mins.
Heat oven to 170c
Drizzle olive oil over the dough and add toppings.
place in oven 25 mins or till golden.
Bread should be hollow when you tap bottom.
Bread can be frozen

I am sure you will love this Bread
My bread is on the bench in the sun ready to be knocked back.
Ready for  hot focaccia for BBQ tonight
Absolutely NO effort believe me
xxx
Jeanie

banana and chocolate bread

This is my first blog ......I decided today to be a blogger , not just any blogger but a foodie  blogger.I decided to make the banana bread out of the Tin Goose cookbook, then decided to 1/2 the recipie. omg then had no coconut so decided to chop a bit of chocolate to add to the bread....amazing especially hot or cold toasted with lashings of butter....
Banana bread :
125gm butter
3 ripe bananas
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup coconut or 1/3 cup chopped chocolate
1 tsp vanilla
1 3/4 cup self raising flour
1/2 tsp baking soda

Melt the butter and sugar in a pot add the eggs and mix well add the flour and soda and coconut , mix well pour into a greased loaf tin or you can put in small loaf tins
Oven: 180 or 45 50 mins