Hello my sweet sweet friends!
How are you doing? Well, just to let you know, I always write this during the week, and then late in the evening on Thursday I put the interview on air, and in these last Thursdays it has been sometimes a bit hard! Why? Because I often come from a late dinner with some friends, a bit sleepy… but this is so important and it is something that gives me so much pleasure that I cannot go to bed without this column! But today was different… I just came from a concert by Mr. Bryan Ferry!
Ok, I’m not quite from the Bryan Ferry generation, but it felt good to listen to some 80’s hits live! :) Without any considerations about his age… but from where I stood during the concert I found him still sexy!!!! :)
Well, but this ain’t about music, nor Bryan Ferry… but about food and cooking and baking!
This time we’ll have such a different recipe, and I am so excited by that! I invited a lady from the north to share with us a recipe. She was a bit busy, because she had a beautiful baby girl a few days ago (can you guess who is this lady from the north?), but she was still able to share some cooking lessons and pictures.
She has this as a presentation in her Flickr account…
“alle kolmekymppisten oma koti, ruoka, matkustelu, haaveilu, ostokset ja löydöt – ja kaiken valokuvaus. Inspiroitumista milloin mistäkin.”
Do you speak this language? Well, I don’t, but I would love so much to visit her country. I have this huge crush on northern european countries… and scandinavian interior styling… though my house doesn’t quite illustrate that orientation right now.
Ok, I will give you a help here… she has also an english version (so I think!) and it says…
“I’m inspired by many things,
Photos are mostly from my blog, risulinna.blogspot.com/ where I write about food, travelling, decor, my home, beautiful things… everyday life stuff.”
{flowers & food}
Now I just handed it over you! :) Our lady for today is Risullina… or Johanna, the lady with a beautiful home and an amazing taste for food and food photography! And Johanna comes from Espoo, Finland. She will delight us with a bread recipe, which is excellent because we needed a change from all the delicious sweets we’ve been tasting these last weeks… and now it’s time for something salty!
{johanna}
What was the recipe?
Foccacia Bread
{johanna’s kitchen}
How to cook it?
Ingredients:
(*1 cup = 2,84 dl)
25 g of yeast
2 tea spoons of salt
3 and 1/2 dl* water
7 dl of All Purpose Flour
1/2 dl of good olive oil (don’t use anything bitter!!)
2 branches of fresh rosemary (at least 2!)
2 table spoons of chopped sun dried tomatoes
Add the yeast into a warm water and add salt, flour and olive oil. Then knead the dough for 10 minutes with your hand and then leave it rise for 20 minutes covered by a tea towel.
While the dough is resting, cover the oven pan (mine is of size: 36 x 24 x 6 cm!, so don’t use anything too large) with baking paper and spread some olive oil generously into the paper. Then bring the dough into the oven pan and leave it again under a tea towel to rise for 45 minutes. Hey, you absolutely want to wait the time, because this is the time the dough needs in order to become realllllly good :)
Finally, drizzle the bread dough surface generously with olive oil and add the chopped tomato into the bread as shown in pictures. I always have fun by varying this ingredient and use for example black seedless olives! Also, add the fresh rosemary and some salt in this phase.
Steam the oven at 225 degrees celsius, and bake for 25 minutes (needs to become a little brown). You can add more fresh rosemary also now that the bread is ready.
{foccacia bread ready and golden}
{enjoy with for example salmon salad as I usually do! – Johanna}
This is a bread I usually bake when I want to make something good and don’t want to do anything too complicated (for example friends are coming over, I don’t want to be in kitchen the whole evening so I do this beforehand and I put it into oven when guests arrive! How easy…!)
{set the table in a beautiful way}
Dear Kitchen, for me you are…
…my favorite place in our home. And the reason I wanted to move here when we first came to see this apartment. I especially love the light here at the top floor and the wooden counter tops in this kitchen are so scandinavian and they give me a warm and homey feeling. I love the open kitchen being a part of the living room as I spend so much time in there.
{johanna’s kitchen}
So, this was it for today! I hope you had a great time with this delicious and golden Foccacia Bread with fresh rosemary… I think this was my favourite detail, as I grow fresh rosemary on my kitchen!
Thank you dear Johanna for having the time and putting the effort into this, among all the other things you have to do right now with your sweet and beautiful baby! You were so, but so kind for me in doing this!
Have yourselves a fabulous weekend my dears! And if you’d like to pop in to a visit on Johanna’s Flickr, just click here… or on her blog… click here!
And don’t forget… Monday we’ll have {sneak-peeks :: photography} with another talented lady!
See you around!
xoxo,
Twiggs
madhu says
Beautiful pictures and that bread looks !!!! yes !!! Must try it soon. Thanks so much!!
Eadaoin says
oh wow these photos are just so beautiful, johanna is one talented lady to be able to bake foccacia that looks so good and then take photos of it that look amazing! i'm having a lovely time looking through your blog at all the wonderful photographers you are featuring! i initially came from facebook to see the lovely clusters post but i've ended up looking at a lot more than that lol!