Olive bread

Some time during my team's last planning meeting it was decided that one of my objectives for the quarter would be to bring olive bread for the team. Last week we started our quarterly planning retreat and I realized I hadn't yet made olive bread. This is probably because I don't like olives. At all.

Anyway, I figured that not liking the ingredients didn't have to stop me and whipped up a whole wheat olive bread. Derived from this recipe: http://www.splendidtable.org/recipes/panne-all-olive-olive-bread.

I used the same water to flour proportions but used half whole wheat flour. I kneaded it instead of waiting overnight, and added several tablespoons of olive oil to make it tastier.

Heated a dutch oven at 450, baked covered for 25 minutes and uncovered for the last fifteen. Because thanks to Nathan and Christmas I now am the proud owner of a lodge dutch oven and a copy of Tartine Bread!

It worked really well. Beautiful crust with olives sticking out and a nice moist crumb thanks to the olive oil.