Focaccia bread

I've been making homemade bread for a while, i find the stuff at the shop just gives me a guts ache.
here's a good recipe i came across and adapted a little bit, it is really tasty, and all the flatmates demolished it within 3 minutes... be careful, don't use too much salt on top!!!

Focaccia Bread
ingredients:

• 1-1/3 cup cooked grated potato
• 1/2 teaspoon dried yeast
• 2 tablespoons olive oil (for the dough, more for greasing the pan and adding to the top of the dough)
• 1-1/4 teaspoons salt
• 3-1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1. First make a starter with 1-1/2 teaspoons of yeast, 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup warm water.

2. Put in a warm place to multiply the yeast.

3. Then, you take one large potato and cook it until it is tender.

4. Once it is tender you have to let it cool down.

5. Grate the potato. You need about 1-1/3 cups of grated potato.

6. Mix the potato and starter together with a wooden spoon.

7. Then cover it with a tea towel. Let it sit for about 20 minutes. It will foam and rise a bit.

8. After 20 minutes add: 1/2 cup warm water, 2 tablespoons olive oil, the grated potato and 1 1/4 teaspoons salt (thereabouts).

9. Then it’s time to add the flour. add 1/2 cup at a time. This recipe calls for 3-1/2 cups of all-purpose flour.

10. You’ve already used 1/2 cup of that flour in the starter so dump in 2 to 2-1/2 cups of flour and mix it together. Keep adding flour until it isn’t sticky.

11. If you are kneading it by hand you should transfer it to a lightly floured counter once the ingredients are mixed together. Then knead it and knead it and knead it some more. It needs to be smooth and elastic.

12. Put a tablespoon of olive oil into a clean bowl and then add the dough. Toss it to coat the dough. Cover it with a towel and put it someplace warm to rise until double in size.

13. I usually preheat the oven to warm and then put the covered bowl into the oven and turn it off.

14. Don’t try and rush this recipe. It needs plenty of rise time.

15. Once it rises to double its size, spread it out on a greased baking tray.
Then brush olive oil over the top, sprinkle with rock salt and some crushed rosemary.
And whatever other toppings you want.
e.g. oregano, onion, olives, cheese, sundried tomato, fresh chilli....

16. At this stage, it’s good to let it rise for as long as you can. The puffier it gets the more tender it bakes up. let it rise on top of the oven and rotate the tray after a half hour or so.

17. After it is to the height that you want, or you can’t wait any longer, pre-heat the oven to 250c. Bake the focaccia, in the bottom level of the oven, until it is golden brown (about 25 minutes)

Serve it with some pesto for dipping, and whatever other classy stuff you can source!