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[karu]

They're a round bread with an unusual robust texture (not like soft and squishy white bread) usually topped with black pepper, garlic and parmesan cheese.  They're made in a free form with 8 scores for slices.  It's hard to explain - they're not squishy like soft white bread, but they're not hard like crusty bread - they're kind of in the middle - it's unusual bread.

It sounds like classic pizza dough made with high gluten flour and formed instead of flattened out. 

[chemistrycourtney]

I'm thinking that it is only called rodini where you live Calalily.  I have checked Williams and Sonoma, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit, in addition to Food Network, none of them have Rodini in the database. 

[Hecubus]

Yeah, I'm striking out as well on rodini. Perhaps our resident Queenslanders could provide a recipe?

[Rebbie]

I'm thinking that it is only called rodini where you live Calalily.  I have checked Williams and Sonoma, Gourmet, and Bon Appetit, in addition to Food Network, none of them have Rodini in the database. 

I've checked bread specific sites like The Fresh Loaf and King Arthur Flour's Baking Circle and no one has ever mentioned rodini there, either.

Calalily, maybe you can ask the bakery you get it from what it might be called elsewhere.

[Paden]

From what I'm finding out about the rodini they're telling us about, it's pretty much a baguette sliced and filled with the ingredients of your personal choice. I've done the google-fu on rodini bread and came up with this page, which may have been posted a page or two back, http://www.cobsbread.com/breadrange/recipe/22.htm , and this: http://www.bakersdelight.com.au/cms/document.php?objectID=211 , and this: http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories-in-fast-foods-take-aways_c-Y2lkPTIwJmJpZD00OSZzaWQ9LTEmcGFyPQ.html

Please let me know if I'm even on the right track, I'd like to know because this has me curious and hungry at the same time. If it is as simple as a baguette, I could make this here at home because I  love to try out new baking projects... If not, I'll just have to get passports for the family and then wish my way to the Land of Oz and bug all of you down there to death in the future...

[Hecubus]

ROAD TRIP!

[Pooki]

I wanna go too!! I have to follow Hecubus of course it is a stalker's duty to follow where her quarry leads.

[Paden]

Ok, I'll get half of the liquid refreshments if Hec will get the other half, you provide snacks, and everyone else coming along can bring other stuff we're going to need or supplement what we're already bringing! ROAD TRIP! I got dibs on a window seat! And don't forget to pack the pea shooters and paper wads for a most excellent mid-air pea shooter fight halfway through the trip! Just no pinging them in the ass with those things, they hurt!!!

[karu]

Road trip?  Not from where I'm standing     I'll bring the row boat.

[Hecubus]

What? No one's built the Los Angeles-Brisbane Highway yet? Damn.

[mando]

Ah, Cobs bread is based out of my part of the world (as a matter of fact there is one right down the street from me). I might have to head over and look into this magnificent, borderline magical bread.

[Jess Maree]

Mwahahaha yes, come my pretties. Come to Brisbane. We totally pwn the rest of Australia! I'll get cracking on that highway, Hec!

[calalily]

They're a round bread with an unusual robust texture (not like soft and squishy white bread) usually topped with black pepper, garlic and parmesan cheese.  They're made in a free form with 8 scores for slices.  It's hard to explain - they're not squishy like soft white bread, but they're not hard like crusty bread - they're kind of in the middle - it's unusual bread.

It sounds like classic pizza dough made with high gluten flour and formed instead of flattened out. 

Nope - not pizza dough.  That would have been easy.   

Yeah, I'm striking out as well on rodini. Perhaps our resident Queenslanders could provide a recipe?

If I had a recipe, I would be cooking and eating rodini and needing a forklift to move, not posting on a forum. 

ROAD TRIP!

NO WAI! Rodini is all mine.

Paden got it right - all those links are right - and maybe shed some light on something - here at this http://www.calorieking.com.au/foods/calories-in-bread-loaf-rodini-garlic-parmesan-black-pepper_f-Y2lkPTM4OTY1JmJpZD00OSZmaWQ9NzMwNDAmcGFyPQ.html - they seem to indicate it is a "Bakers Delight" bread - so maybe that's the only place in the world that makes it.  Normally, Australia is the last to get something, but that would make it a first.  Hopefully deelink will be able to translate it into another bread by a different name, and we can all eat some bread of different names simultaneously.  Next time I'm at a Bakers Delight, I will ask them where the fuck it comes from, and we can solve the "Great Rodini Mystery of '08".

...But if it turns out to be a Queensland based phenomenon, rather than be swamped by rodini competition, I will report you all to immigration as an influx of dread pirates, and you can sit at the airport and wait for your flight back, and I will sit behind the glass munching on glorious rodini in front of your little deported faces. 

[Jess Maree]

...But if it turns out to be a Queensland based phenomenon, rather than be swamped by rodini competition, I will report you all to immigration as an influx of dread pirates, and you can sit at the airport and wait for your flight back, and I will sit behind the glass munching on glorious rodini in front of your little deported faces. 

you are cruel, Calalily! C'mon, we could totally do with the tourism...

[calalily]

...But if it turns out to be a Queensland based phenomenon, rather than be swamped by rodini competition, I will report you all to immigration as an influx of dread pirates, and you can sit at the airport and wait for your flight back, and I will sit behind the glass munching on glorious rodini in front of your little deported faces. 

you are cruel, Calalily! C'mon, we could totally do with the tourism...

Problem is you already have to buy them before 12 at places *grumble grumble grumble* I'm not having every pirate in the world horn in on the limited hoarding supply - tourism be damned. Behind the glass taunting fills my needs.