This week’s French Fridays with Dorie recipe – Provençal Olive Fougasse (pp 48-49) was another relatively easy one. It’s a flatbread similar to a foccacia and this one is flavoured with olives (or tapenade in my case!), rosemary and olive oil. The only difficult part was the timing – the dough has to rise for an hour or two and then it needs to chill in the fridge for as long as overnight so don’t start it an hour before you need it! I liked the tapenade flavour – it was nice and pronounced – but next time I might, ahem, make sure I have the right ingredients before I start. I also used thyme instead of rosemary.
Fougasse is meant to be a pretty leaf shape, made just so by the tears and slashes in the dough but mine closed up in the oven – I think my tray was too narrow to allow it to stay in the shape I created and it all puffed together when it baked. Nonetheless, it was a tasty treat to have with a glass of wine and some olives as an apéritif snack and the next day it was even better as I toasted it ans slathered it with some more tapenade and melted some cheese on top. Oh my, THAT was good!
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Beautiful, Mardi…and using tapenade eliminates the olive pitting I had to do 🙂 I guess Dorie really meant it when she said to stretch out the slashes…yours look pretty darn good!
Ah yes the dreaded olive pitting!
Ok – melted cheese and tapenade – that is something I could get behind. Yum….
It’s really good!
Melted cheese AND tapenade? Great combo idea!
Right????
Now this one I would have liked to have made actually!!
It’s pretty easy – if even *I* can make it!
That looks absolutely delicious!
This looks terrific! I saw it on Liz’s blog and KNEW I had to come over here and check it out! It’s just beautiful!
Cheers Ann!
Your photos are always so pretty! I bet it was extra delicious with tapenade spread on it.
Aw thanks Amanda!
I guess it must be delicious with the cheese and tapenade spread on it. I sprinkled cheese on top too for the extra oomph 🙂 this is the best flatbread I have eaten…packed with olive and herbs…yummy. Have a great weekend!
Oh cheese on top sounds wonderful!
Great photos. That tapenade sounds interesting and delicious. I tried black pepper on
one of mine and thought that was pretty good. There are many variations to be
used with this.
Yes lots of flavour combinations for sure!
Love your bread! I want to make this one haphazardly next time just for the whimsy of it! 🙂
Oh I am too much of a bread baking novice to do anything “haphazardly”!!!
Tapenade mixed in sounds like olives in every bite. And melted cheese? Yum!
Yes olives and cheese is a great combo!
Looking at this bread one would never think that you were not a big fan of bread making earlier this year. Looks wonderful Mardi.
Well I never said I was a FAN……
This looks gorgeous! You are certainly becoming quite the bread baker. 🙂
Well I don’t know about that…. 😉