Mouth watering Soft Rolls and Focaccia Bread

These, as my buddy Graham stated, are THE MOST delicious rolls we have ever tasted :).. Tee hee.. Ok fine, the most delicious rolls we have ever made ;).

We had a hell of a day today. We messed up on our scaling with the Focaccia bread and had to do it over.  This is a FIRST for our group.  We got it right the second time though.... ;)  While the Focaccia was in the mixer, we began scaling our soft dough ingredients. The stars were not aligned for us this morning as that dough also did not mix correctly. Seriously?? Two out of two? There are 4 of us!?  How does that happen? I know we are pretty fast and steady, but up until now, we have been smooth sailing. :) No matter! The second time around on the soft dough was perfect and we had a fun time shaping.

So yea, the day started off a little tight. The Focaccia is a bread that requires a lot of fermenting and proofing. So that sat on the counter while we created the soft dough, rolled, cut, second scaled and shaped it!  We made knots today! A single knot and a double knot. I had the hardest time getting this. It literally took every person in my group to show me.  I have not been all together with it this week. I'm having a rough start and for sure looks like I will have the same ending. I'm grateful that there is no school Friday as I really need the get away. You know where I will be.. think sand. ;) I'm not leaving until dark either!

Woops, back to bread we go.  Here is our Focaccia bread right after coming out of the oven. When you place this bread on your sheet, it has to be saturated with olive oil.  As soon as it is out of proofing, you then smother more olive oil on the top and then use your two fingers to create holes on the entire bread. We made ours with herbs and cheese. It tastes amazing.  I am not going to lie, I don't care to have more than just a few pieces of bread anymore. What kind of class is this for ones figure!!! :) :) :)  Sheesh! Bring on the pounds.

You can make breads in all kinds of shapes. For the Focaccia, we didnt do much of an artisan shape.  This my friend, as you can plainly see, is a square. Ha! Yea.. .moving right along. These little babies below came out cute though. You can see a few of our double and single knot shapes. I pray that he doesn't make this one of our practicals because honestly, the whole knot thing.. yea, not for me. Knots, of any kind, don't seem to be my thing.

I really hate to cut the blog short but I have absolutely no energy!! I'm so sorry! I will definitely come back and give you the recipe's if you want them. They are delicious, super soft and i am sure with some butter, to die for!

I need to go knock out for a few ;) See you back here tomorrow for pretzels and bagels! Come Thursday, I will be doing my practical. Cross those fingers... I better be well rested by then! No one likes a grumpy ;)

XO