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Authentic, Imitation, Italian Focaccia

an old friend who is a gourmet cook showed me how to whip this up for her kids and I thought, man, if she can use store-bought dough with a cartoon character on it, then it must be ok. You can add all sorts of junk to it before baking: leftover shredded chicken, lumps of pesto, mushrooms, anchovies, turkey gizzard..but it's pretty darned good as is.
INGREDIENTS:  pillsbury pizza dough - thin style if possible (do not attempt homemade dough if you're already starving; trust me on this)
olive oil
dried rosemary
garlic 3 or 4 cloves (or more if you're like me)
goat cheese, crumbled (about a cup)
kosher salt
baking pan with rim

NOTE: be prepared - you may not even get a sliver of this since it smells so amazing when it's baking.

preheat oven to 425
coat the baking pan using your fingers with some olive oil
take out the dough and try and get it in the pan as thinly as you can without ripping it - if it rips just do a rough patch job.  Should fill most of the pan.
drizzle olive oil all over dough and spread around with fingers so it's quite glossy on top..like maybe 
2-3 TBSP worth. sprinkle some kosher salt on - not too much, maybe 1/2 tsp.

smash your garlic/ lightly chop it,  then pretend you're sneezing garlic alllll over the dough in a crazy haphazard fashion - do not place garlic on focaccia in any gridlike formation otherwise it'll totally suck and taste like a sour, nasty shoe. It's all about the sweep.

Next crumble about a TBSP of rosemary in your greasy, nasty hands and throw that around& over your shoulder like you've been doing this for years.  Do the same with the goat cheese. Smear the remains all over your boyfriend's face and yell, gesturing furiously with your hands: "FOCACCIAFORMAGGIOPARMESANIPREGOABUNDANZA!!!!"
He'll glow with pride and happiness that you've finally brought some damned culture into the house (and his skin will be soft as silk once you pick the rosemary out of his beard).  note: this pretend chef realizes this could be considered sexist;  please excuse the implication that men don't make focaccia...they do.  I just liked the beard thing.

Now Throw that baby in the oven and watch it like a hawk..it will be done/golden on the edges less than 10 minutes probably - it's always different.  You can slice into pieces like a pizza or put  the whole focaccia under your bathrobe and wolf it down in the closet in the dark before anyone can find it.

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