Home-made focaccia home-delivered? Here’s my address, now take my money
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With her European roots, Bianca Naoumidis expresses her love through the joy of feeding others.
While Bianca is a marketing manager by day and mum to a toddler, she also finds constant joy in the kitchen, cooking for friends, new mum friends, those who are sick or in need, or just her hungry relatives.
And what do they seem to love the most? The enormous steaming pans of crispy baked focaccia that Bianca cooks regularly.
“I mean, who wouldn’t?”
Such is the demand for Bianca’s particular brand of focaccia, proved overnight, rustic, sheet-pan baked and using fresh ingredients from her local Ainslie IGA, including rosemary from her backyard, that Bianca is starting a business.
Bink by B will bake fresh focaccias to order for pick up in Ainslie or for a $10 delivery free.
Priced at $25 each (or two for $44), the focaccias are 30 by 20 cm and can feed four to six depending on appetite.
There are three versions: garlic butter, rosemary and sea salt and olive, tomato and rosemary.
Bianca feels there is a market in fresh-baked home delivered bread whether it is for a planned meal, a charcuterie board at the end of the week, to take to a party, or as a gift for someone.
She feels that her home-baked version, with its crispy edges and rustic looks, beats the store-bought competition.
Also, it will fill the recipient’s home with all those fresh-baked bready smells.
“I just had so many people asking me to bake them one of my focaccias that I figured there is a niche in the market I will try and fill.”
“There’s an art to making focaccia, allowing the dough to rise properly and to get that soft interior and crispy crust, so it is not something you can make instantly anyway. Knowing people plan for it means they can pop an order in and outsource it to me!”
She’s officially launching this week and says she will be tweaking the business as customers demand.
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While there is no gluten-free focaccia offering just yet, Bianca is experimenting with different flours to hit on the perfect recipe.
Orders are requested three days in advance through her Instagram @bink.byb which has an order form.
Our only words of advice is if you pick it up from her house, try not to eat half of it before you’ve even driven home…
