Tasty Tuesday

Mom has been wanting to make a Kalamata Olive bread for awhile.  She bought one at the grocery store awhile back and loved it so she's been searching for a recipe to make one herself.  She found quick bread recipes that use milk and she found yeast bread recipes that use the kalamata olive juice brine and that one sounded more flavorful to her so that's the one that she chose.

Ingredients

• 1/3 to 1/2 cup brine from olives
• 1 cup warm water (enough to make 1 1/2 cups when combined with brine)
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 3 cups bread flour
• 1 2/3 cups whole-wheat flour
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons basil (dried leaf)
• 2 teaspoons active dry yeast
• 1/2 to 2/3 cup olives (finely chopped kalamata, about 2 dozen pitted olives)

She didn't have dried basil so she used Mrs Dash's salt-free Italian Medley.   She adds it to soups and pretty much everything.  

You had to be here to smell it baking away in the bread machine.   It was driving us both NUTS with the Italian aroma from the spice mix!

 Is there anything more yummy than warm bread with butter?  Mom doesn't think so.

 It smells delicious and tastes yummy, mom!

We both give it a TEN and we will be making this recipe again!

Happy Fat Tuesday and Happy Mardi Gras!

 

Love ya lots♥

Molly