Cooking with Love

with Gianna Conte    (Jan)

Just pulled these foccacia stix out of the oven. You should smell my kitchen.

Just pulled these foccacia stix out of the oven. You should smell my kitchen.

Quick Foccacia stix

Had a frozen pizza dough in the freezer. Wanted to make something like what my mama used to make, using leftover bread dough. We would enjoy them with olives, grana padano cheese broken into bite size pieces and some sopressata dry sausage.

Pass the red wine 🍷

Ingredients:

I pizza dough, cut into long strips, about 1-1/2 inches wide

Chopped plum tomatoes

Fresh basil, torn

Salt

1/2 cup Olive oil

1/4 cup Grated Parmesan cheese

Fresh chopped garlic (you can used powdered)

Directions:

Cut up the pizza strips and place on prepared cookie sheet, close together, twisting them.

Combine all remaining ingredients in a bowl. Top the mixture on top of each strip.

Cover with Saran wrap and let stand for 1 hour.

Remove wrap and place into 450 degree oven for 15 minutes.

Don't burn!

Enjoy!

Note* I use Sillpad to line my cookie sheets.



Let's get baking!


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees


 1 whole thin skinned orange, remove the stem and cut in quarters. Keep the skin on the oranges.

In a clean large food processor, add the orange quarters, 1 1/4 cups of sugar, three large eggs, 1 tsp of vanilla, 1 tsp of orange extract, 1 tbsp of Triple Sec liqueur, optional, 2/3 cup vegetable oil. 


Pulse all ingredients in the processor and then puree until mixture becomes a batter with specs of orange peel.


Add to the processor:


2 1/4 cups all purpose flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 tsp salt


Process all dry ingredients until they are entirely incorporated into the batter.


Bake in a greased and floured spring pan, using a parchment paper circle on top of the greased bottom.*


Preheat the oven to 350 degrees. Place in the center rack of the oven.  Bake for 30-40 minutes, depending on your oven.


Remove from your oven and let it cool down completely. Dust with powdered sugar or make a drizzle of 1/4 cup powdered sugar and fresh squeezed orange until thick and smooth.  Pour onto the cooled fresh orange cake.


*if you don't have a large processor, you can use a blender.


Enjoy with some espresso and close your eyes and it will feel like you're in Sicily.