RecipeMuncher

Unlike regular French and Italian bread, ciabatta is a wet, slack dough that gets sliced and gently stretched rather than being shaped. This leads to some funny looking loaves. Ciabatta means slipper in Italian - even they find them funny looking. But the ciabatta is known for its light interior and its crunchy crust, what is ugly on the outside is beautiful on the tongue. This particular ciabatta strays from the norm and contains wheat germ and olive oil. I find that those additions gave my br (...)