Olive, ham and rosemary twist-tastic!

I was invited to a New Year's eve party so I thought I'd take one of my signature dishes, olive, rosemary and pancetta bread sticks. I have made them quite a few times now. I started by mixing together the salt, flour and dried yeast.

Then I heated some milk and olive oil until it was lukewarm and added it to the mixture.

Now for the sticky bit. I kneaded the dough to get it nice and bouncy (or tried to - it was really sticky.)

But eventually it looked like this.

I kneaded in some chopped olives and some chopped up rosemary from the garden and divided it up into 16 balls.

Then my mum rolled them into sausages and I wrapped them in pancetta ham.

Time for a little break - while they were cooking I took my chance and scoffed the rest of the olives...

This is what they looked like after we took them out of the oven - I wish you could smell them! (I had to put up with the smell - not because it was horrible but because I wasn't allowed to eat them yet.)

And here are my bread sticks and me ready to go to the party!