

In a small bowl, mix the mascarpone, sugar, and vanilla together until combined.ġ 1/4 pounds dough, Master recipe, from New Artisan Bread in Five You will want to eat this the day it’s made, and I highly recommend digging in while it still slightly warm.īlackberry Mascarpone Focaccia with Basil This focaccia is sweet: it’s dolloped with mascarpone and sprinkled with sugar, and the results are amazing. But I had blackberries in my fridge that needed to be used, some leftover Master dough, and my basil plant is currently larger than life, so Blackberry Basil Focaccia was born. This delicious focaccia bread is based on a recipe from Edd Kimber’s beautiful new cookbook, One Tin Bakes his version uses fragolina grapes and rosemary. We wanted to sneak in some summer berries before apples and pumpkin take center stage (and also take over the internet). But this bread, which doesn’t care what kind of stovetop you use, is fast and delicious, and stovetop cooking doesn’t heat up your kitchen like an oven, so it’s a great choice for the upcoming warm weather (someday soon, fingers crossed, even here in Minnesota). Melissa Clark had a great article on this last year if you’re interested in learning more. Induction is nothing like traditional radiant electric stovetops - it’s actually better than gas, by a lot, despite persuasive advertising from the gas industry, since the 1930s which brought us the wacky expression, “Now you’re cookin’ with gas!” I was a gas diehard … until I tried induction at a friend’s house. This is part of the electric transition that is probably in all our futures and that my family has started trying to make. It’s instant-on, rapidly responsive, and very, very stingy with energy and carbon emissions. I’ve done it on gas, electric, and induction stovetops, but I’m going to put in a brief plug for induction, because I recently got one, and I’m in love with it. ” For those of us who don’t have a tandoor at home, we can still make chewy, fragrant flatbreads in a skillet, right on the stovetop. My version is from page 260 of “The New Artisan Bread in Five …. In all my books, I call this fast and delicious flatbread “naan,” which is a specialty from India, but truth be told, it isn’t really naan, because the authentic article is made in a massive ceramic oven (“tandoor”), and the flatbreads are slapped onto the sides of its huge bowl-shaped surface and cooked over charcoal.
