Oh my does that look good! Your photos are just gorgeous - particularly the one of the garlic!
Cathy | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 4:22 pm | #

i saw a lovely little foccaccia like this last night at Whole foods. it was also covered with caramelized red onions. i must have stood there for 5 minutes sniffing at the wrapper it smelled so good.

thinking about it now, makes me wish i had bought it after all... i'm nearly drooling at the thought of it.
barbie2be | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 4:45 pm | #

Ilva,
Today on the way to home, I decided to make foccaccia, not today but maybe on weekend. I decided to google some foccaccia recipes.
Now I see your awesome foccaccia , No need to look at other sites,I'll try this.
Thanks
Isil | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 5:26 pm | #

Have I told you lately that I love you? I can't taste a thing right now but that foccacia almost cured me! I love, love, love foccacia but never had the guts to make one. I'll like to try with your recipe now!
MM | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 7:47 pm | #

Cathy-thanks, I like that pic too, the colours of the garlic are so pretty!

barbie2be-there's always tomorrow...

Isil & MM-this is made with milk, a foccaccia purist would make it with water and I usually do it that way but the garlic taste gets rounder with milk!
ilva | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 8:02 pm | #

I will have to bake foccaccia next time instead of my Honey Whole Wheat Bread. Yours looks much better!
Vickie Brown | Homepage | 02.22.06 - 11:52 pm | #

I can practically catch the scent from here! Foccaccia is one of my favourite things. *dreamy sigh*
s'kat | Homepage | 02.23.06 - 4:20 am | #

I would love to taste some right now. Love the photos, as usual!

Paz
Paz | Homepage | 02.23.06 - 10:48 am | #

Love your page Ilva. There is a traditional recipe from one Greek island (forgot which one), very similar to foccaccia, where the topping are sliced onions and tomatoes, olive oil and oregano. I only saw it on one TV programme and make it since then. They call it "Ladenia", something like "Oily pie".
Dana | 02.23.06 - 3:32 pm | #

Your foccacia is absolutely beautiful!
Karina | Homepage | 02.23.06 - 5:00 pm | #

Ilva-the garlic picture that you took, would you make a print for me and let me pay you for it to send to me here? It would look beautiful in my office. I have all kinds of framed food pictures. If I can afford your garlic, I would love to have it here where I can look at it everyday. Let me know.
Vickie Brown | Homepage | 02.24.06 - 12:42 am | #

Vickie-I'll see to what I can do about it when I get back to Italy!

s'kat- so you will have great time trying different types and bakeries in Italy in October!!

Paz-you'll have to wait until you come and visit me!

Dana-I think foccaccia is a typical mediterranean bread, there are so many wonderful varieties! Like the name oily pie!

Karina- I wish one could make gluten-free ones!
ilva | 02.24.06 - 10:10 am | #

paz
Paz | Homepage | 02.25.06 - 4:19 am | #

You really should be selling some these food photos.
That garlic is stunning!
Ghone | Homepage | 02.26.06 - 6:10 pm | #

Ghone-I wish I could! Thanks!
ilva | 02.28.06 - 10:21 am | #

whoa looks scrummy. I want to try it and been reading the recipe. What is dl (in ml)???
Lisa | Homepage | 02.28.06 - 3:55 pm | #

Lisa-1 dl (deciliter) is 100 ml! But you can always use the cooking measure converter link in the right hand margin!
ilva | 02.28.06 - 5:15 pm | #

Hi Ilva,
I baked your foccaccia today and it was so delicious.
I wrote about it on today's post in the context of WHB. Thanks for sharing this recipe!
Isil | Homepage | 03.12.06 - 4:23 pm | #

Isil-thanks for baking it and the POST about it!!
ilva | Homepage | 03.13.06 - 8:41 am | #

Wow, I saw Ilva's post on WHB and came to check this out. I am SO glad I did. That sounds and looks fantastic! I can't wait to try it (once I figure out the conversions to American measurements). YUM!

Oh, and your photography is breathtaking.
Sarah Caron | Homepage | 03.14.06 - 12:39 am | #

Sarah- Thanks for you kind words! There is a Cooking Measure Converter link on the right hand margin!
ilva | Homepage | 03.14.06 - 8:07 am | #

Hello...
This looks 'perfetto' but, please, what is a DL of milk?
Thank You
Julia | Homepage | 01.08.07 - 5:16 pm | #

Julia-dl is a deciliter, i.e. 100 mililiters!
ilva | Homepage | 01.08.07 - 5:25 pm | #

Ilva, I almost never bake, but I've seen these mini focaccia breads topped with goat cheese and figs today online, and I am dying to make some myself. So I came here for your focaccia recipe, because all your recipes are always turning out great! What I don't understand, from your recipe, is if you used fresh yeast or dry. I can't really find fresh yeast in NY, I know only an Italian store that sells it, but I'd have to buy a huge pack, and I will never get to use it all...And if I'd use the dry yeast, I wouldn't know how much to put it. I'd really appreacite your input on that!

Thanks,

Carmen
CB | Homepage | 11.08.07 - 9:22 pm | #

Carmen- OK, Fresh yeast 1 oz/ 1 tablespoon = active dry yeast 0.4 oz/ 1.25 teaspoon = 0.33 oz / 1 teaspoon.
The amount of fresh yeast (I always use that) here is equivalent of almost 0.5 oz so I suppose you should use about 1.5 teaspoon active dry yeast according to that table. Check it out to see if I make any sense.
ilva | Homepage | 11.08.07 - 9:31 pm | #

That's great, thanks, Ilva!
CB | Homepage | 11.08.07 - 10:11 pm | #