Garden Focaccia Art

“Food is art and I intend to play with it.”

And it’s true. I’ve been playing with my food and making art with it since I started eating solid foods as an infant. One might say I was born to be a food blogger.

Enter: focaccia garden bread.

It’s the epitome of food turned art – or art turned food?

With the peak harvest season right around the corner, this focaccia makes the best of the freshest foods summer has to offer. Plus I added in a few store bought items like pickled tear peppers to give it some extra zing!

Garden Focaccia Inspiration

Make your focaccia your own! Arrange different vegetables to look like flowers, petals, grass and leaves. Here’s a list of suggested vegetables – most of which I used in my very own artistic loaf.

chives – great for grass
asparagus – great for ‘flower stems’
shallot – sliced in half looks like a flower
teardrop peppers – these are pickled but add tons of color and texture
green onion – great for stalks and branches
cherry tomatoes – can make flower tops or a pretty design
capers – sprinkled on can look like bees or bugs
Italian parsley – for leaves and petals
mini sweet bell peppers – sliced to look like butterflies or flowers
mushrooms – for the ground
zucchini slices – for the forest floor
radishes – for pops of bright pink color
crushed pistacchios – add pops of crunch and green color