Photo updated June 2012
Last week I mentioned that if I could only eat one food, it would be cheese. Well, my second choice would be bread – and really, if I could just eat cheese and bread, then I’d be a very happy girl!! The biggest problem with being a bread lover – besides the fact that I’d be very overweight if I ate as much of it as I’d like to – is that it usually takes a lot of time to make. Now that I’m a stay at home mom, I thought I’d have all the time in the world to bake and make bread, but most days, that is simply not the case.
Now, this bread isn’t a “quick” bread, but it takes very little hands on time and is a cinch to make. And I love that it is very versatile – you can change up the herb mix to whatever you are feeling that day. In my bread, I used some herbs de provence and sprinkled the top with coarse sea salt and it was a lovely combination. This one will be a regular in our house!
An easy yeast bread that can be made in under 2 hours.
Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cups (12 ounces) warm water
- 3 tablespoons (1 1/4 ounces) olive oil (plus additional for drizzling)
- 1 1/4 teaspoons salt
- 3 1/2 cups (14 ¾ ounces) all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon instant yeast
- 1/2 teaspoon garlic salt
- 3 teaspoons dried herbs
- dried herbs for sprinkling
Instructions
- Lightly grease a 9? x 13? pan, and drizzle 1 to 2 tablespoons olive oil in the bottom.
- Combine all of the ingredients, except the dried herbs for sprinkling, and beat with an electric mixer for 60 seconds.
- Scoop the sticky batter into the prepared pan, cover the pan, and let it rise at room temperature for 60 minutes, till it is puffy.
- While the dough is rising, preheat the oven to 375°F.
- Gently poke the dough all over with your index finger.
- Drizzle it lightly with olive oil, and sprinkle with the dried herbs of your choice, if desired.
- Bake the bread till it’s golden brown, 35 to 40 minutes.
- Remove it from the oven, wait 5 minutes, then turn it out of the pan onto a rack. Serve warm or at room temperature.
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- From My Kitchen Cafe who adapted it from King Arthur Flour
This looks great, thanks! I wonder if you could use this for sandwiches, kind of like a flatbread sandwich?
I could live on cheese and bread, too… maybe with a little bit of chocolate for dessert! Looks great!
I could feed on bread and cheese!
That blitz bread looks gorgeous! You can’t go wrong with KAF!
Cheers,
Rosa
I featured you over on Tip Junkie today. Thanks for the baby shower inspiration.
Are you sure I didn’t write this post?
Because this woman could live on bread and cheese alone.
Looks great! I’ve never heard of blitz.
Its almost like a Foccacia.Hope you had a great Easter with the baby and family.
Bread would be my food of choice. I love bread – which is why my butt is the size of TX
This looks a lot like my foccacia bread recipe. It is what I always turn to when I need bread in a jiffy!
There’s nothing better than homemade bread. Can’t wait to try this one!
Cheese and bread, now that’s an idea. I think I’d have to add pasta as well though.
I adore bread too; bread AND cheese, even better. Making bread is time consuming, but I always tell myself it’s worth it. I bet this smelled heavenly while it baked, with those yummy spices especially!
Oh, yum! Bread, cheese, and a glass of red wine. Does one need anything else to exist?
Looks like a great foccicia type bread…love all the herbs!
This sounds like my kind of bread. Easy and tasty.
Mmm, this bread looks delicious. I love no-fuss yeast bread recipes. Fabulous! Cheese and bread sound like a great diet to me!
A big slice of that dipped in olive oil, yummy
We’re hosting a pizza party on Sunday, maybe I will make some of this for an appetizer!
Nothing beats homemade bread! Not that I ever have any luck with it, but yours looks great!
This sounds like my kind of easy bread. Not a lot of room for me to mess it up! And those black forest cookies below–yummmy.
thanks for the recipe! I made it and it was a big hit! Thanks
That`s look really scrumptious!
A marvelous idea/!!!
thanks for sharing your recipe.!!!!
This was delicious. Thanks for sharing it!
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