Italian Olive bread

I have had loved Italian food since my childhood. Pasta and pizza had always been anytime all the time kind of meal for me.
I have never baked cakes in my teenage but tried hands on different recipes for making good pizza base. A very generous aunt shared her recipe which was good but was loaded with lots of ingredients. My dad loved my pizzas. Alhumdolillah.
Finally 1 day after catching few ingredients from here and few from there I guess my best ever pizza base happened.
Now I am using this simple recipe to make savoury filled buns, sesame rolls, garlic bread, olive bread etc. I have always suggested my friends that when baking always use good quality ingredients especially oils and butter, the flavour the texture will be great. Inshallah.

Here is my Olive bread recipe.

Ingredients:
Bread Flour 2 and half cups
Dry active yeast 7gms (1 sachet)
Salt 1 tsp
Sugar 2 tbsp
Garlic powder 1/2 tsp
Italian seasonings 1/2 tsp
Olive oil 3 Tbsp
Luke warm water to knead.

I usually add all the ingredients in a my electric mixer to make soft dough, I rub some olive oil in my hand to coat the dough while placing it in a big bowl to rise to double (2-3 hours). Cover with a hot damp kitchen towel.

After the bread is double in size punch it back in again, now add 1/2 cup of pitted black olives to the dough and knead to mix it in. Shape it into a big loaf
then place it in the baking tray, make long cuts along the bread and sprinkle some more Italian seasoning on top. Let it rise for another half hour till it swells a bit.

Now place place the baking tray in oven preheated @180 for 15 minutes or till it looks cooked.

Now I slice the bread from where I made cuts on uncooked dough earlier and fill it with grated Mozzarella in it and placed it oven for final melt down and crisp. Tada hot and crisp Olive bread will fill your kitchen with temptation to eat it hot with soup or stew.
The first picture is of the final result.

My passion for food

I am not an excellent cook but I try to get the best flavour out of my recipe.
I grew up eating hot and spicy food, but I was one and only in a big family of 9 people who could not eat chillies and always had tea warm not hot. How come? That was strange.
I understood this after getting married, my husband doesn't like chillies and extremely strange he likes tea exactly the temperature I like which is warm not HOT. Mystery solved I was made to cook for him and eat with him.
I think I can make good Pakistani food, fairly good Chinese and American food, had some success with my favourite Italian food, Thai cuisine sometime turns out great sometimes oookkk, still trying to get the best flavour out of middle eastern cooking.
Baking cakes was my biggest success ever, Thanks to my lovely friend Afshan(May Allah rest her soul in peace). She shared a recipe of a plain cake with me, I tried it immediately and could not believed I made that cake. Today I bake cakes, breads, rolls, pies, pastry and much more Alhumdoolillah.
Since quite a long time I wanted to compile my cooking, my baking, the way I feel about food sometime full of fat some days totally fat free. Tonight is my first night at MY EXPRESSION.
I hope it benefits my 3 beautiful daughters(MashAllah). and anyone who has my style of passion.
May Allah protect me, my family, my relatives and my friends from hellfire. Ameen. And give barakah in whatever I cook. Ameen