This Focaccia Isn’t Your Garden-Variety Flatbread Anymore!

Link here: https://www.momknowsbest.net/2020/02/how-to-make-focaccia-bread-flowers.html

My personal favorite below (I am not a huge vegetable fan!)

I like this one, too!   Recipe here: https://danbeasleyharling.com/bread/focaccia/

 Created by Terri Culletto.  Before baking

Created by Terri Culletto.  After baking

For several weeks now, I have been seeing these beautifully decorated focaccia, dotted with vegetables on my Instagram feed.  

I am fascinated by this pheonomin!  You already know that I like beautiful food...plated or prepared and these works of art are beautiful and creative!

I quote the New York Times article which was published April 24th by Amelia Nierenberg

·         Read the whole article here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/24/dining/focaccia-bread.html?smid=ig-nytcooking&utm_source=curalate_like2buy&utm_medium=curalate_like2buy_gnauQ5q1__85c57964-581f-41a6-8ae6-ca60659ba09c&crl8_id=85c57964-581f-41a6-8ae6-ca60659ba09c

"In kitchens across the world, focaccia gardens are blooming. On top of the flatbreads, cherry tomatoes open like petals, with long scallion stalks for stems. Yellow-pepper sunflowers stand tall with Kalamata olives at their center. Red onions bud in bushes made from fresh herbs.

As pandemic activities on social media go, this one might just be the prettiest. Home bakers decorate their focaccia with bouquets and swirls: The flat, white dough is an easy canvas, and just as simple to prepare. During a spring when so many of us are confined, decorating them allows many bakers to bring the outdoors inside by tending these edible gardens.

“It’s cathartic and therapeutic,” said Teri Culletto, a home baker in Vineyard Haven, Mass., who is thought to have started the trend. “If we had dinner parties to go to, you’d want everybody to have their socks on, because you’d knock them off.”

Ms. Culletto, 56, posted her first focaccia garden on Instagram in February 2019. Soon after, other bakers were making their own versions. They now poke around one another’s accounts, sharing decorating tips."

"Raw vegetables, for example, are tricky, because they have different water contents. Thicker pieces are better, as thinner ones might burn. Purple potatoes are excellent for the blue, indigo and violet parts of the rainbow, said Hannah Page, a 36-year-old high school teacher in Raleigh, N.C., who posts under @blondieandrye. Ms. Culletto discovered that dipping fresh herbs in lemon water might keep them greener in a hot oven"

My favorite ones are from  @blondeandrye in Instagram.   

The Bored Panda writes "This chef, who's behind the Instagram account Blondie and Rye, makes the most mesmerizing, meticulously-crafted, crispy snacks that are simply a feast for our eyes. Hannah—a North Carolina-based baker—has over 100k Instagram followers with whom she shares before and after pictures of her intricate, flour-covered creations. Some of them are scrupulously carved, while others are decorated with fruits and vegetables. Nonetheless, Hannah's audience continues growing as more and more followers are keeping track of her eye-catching pastries. "I’ve never felt so excited and inspired by bread!" one woman comments on one of Blondie and Rye's Instagram posts. "The most beautiful loaves I [have] ever seen!" another person noted."

https://www.boredpanda.com/carved-blondie-and-rye-bread/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Here are some of hers:

 These are before baking.

These are after baking 

Blondie and Rye can be found on Instagram, Pinterest and Facebook.  I would say that she is famous now!  She does share recipes.  This one was on The Feedfeed:

https://thefeedfeed.com/blondieandrye/mixed-cheese-and-scallion-fougasse

She also carves bread like this, but that is a whole other blog!

For more ideas from other bakers, follow my Pinterest board: https://www.pinterest.com/dailyelegance/bread-stuffs/