Meals Made with Focaccia

We love focaccia! It's flavored Italian bread--flavored with olive oil and Italian spices or anything else you want to add.

We're building a "focaccia library"--a listing of meals that you can make with focaccia bread. The goal is to find 100 meals that we can make with focaccia.  That's a big project but that's okay; we have lots focaccia recipes and ideas stashed in the archives.  

See "The Focaccia Library." 

Why are we building a focaccia library?  Three reasons:

• Focaccia is fun and there's so much for you explore and build.  We want to share what we've found.
• Focaccia is a  great summertime bread and often lends itself to quick and easy meals.
• It's affordable. The mixes cost only a few dollars and include a spice packet. It's easy on the food budget.

But Merri Ann and I needed a break--a respite from writing about bread.  So we took a hike.

Medicine Lodge Creek, the Idaho Medicine Lodge Creek, is only an hour and half from home. That's it in the top picture. See the green mountain in the center--there's a canyon between the green mountain and the red rock mountain behind it. That's where we went hiking Saturday. The red rock mountain is part of the Continental Divide. We didn't get far--the trail ran out and bushwhacking is too hard.

A couple of weeks ago, when the snow was still clinging to the mountains, we drove up the Montana Medicine Lodge Creek. The Idaho Medicine Lodge Creek flows south, headed for the Pacific Ocean, but gets lost and disappears in the dessert below.  

The Montana Medicine Lodge Creek Drainage, May 2024

The Montana Medicine Lodge Creek flows north and east and finds its way into the Missouri River and finally, the Gulf of Mexico. It's strange to have two streams back-to-back in two states and with the same name.

(Merri Ann's father was raised on a homestead one drainage to the east. When he went to school, he walked the railroad track 10 miles to Dubois.)