making focaccia fun (just add gin)

What do you for fun?

When I was 19 - go to Tin Roof and drink 5 tequila shots in a row
When I was 22 - go to Tiger Tiger and drink 5 tequila shots in a row
When I was 25 - go out for dinner to Piza Vino and drink 1 Apple Martini

Are we sensing a pattern here? But now that I'm 27 and married and stuff, I am onto the gin and tonics and COOKING at HOME. Amazing. Who knows what I'll be doing in 3 years? Probably mooshing up bananas and butternut with baby poo under my fingernails. Ick.

When I am 27 - make focaccia from scratch and drink freshly squeezed grapefruit and orange juice (OK...with gin in it, but still).

The Hub and I sat and ate half of it in one go. Just like that with butter. Do not get me started on the evils of margarine/one molecule away from a Checkers packet. And we wonder why they say happily married folk just sit and eat all the pies! We would have eaten the whole thing, but I had the foresight to chop it in half and pop it in the freezer. My arms were so stiff the next day from the whole kneading and rolling lark. Good grief.

The recipe is from Jamie Oliver's Home Cooking Skills. I won't put the whole thing up here because it's VERRRY long and off putting. But worth it. And man am I proud of how similar it looks to the picture of Jamie's one. Which is a testament to my cooking skills...ahem...his excellent recipe.

So what are we cooking next weekend? It better be something healthy else they are going to have to pull Nic and I out of our house with a winch.