Homemade Ciabatta Bread

What's the best way to make up for a potato kale gratin disaster?  The next night make homemade ciabatta bread.  It smells so good, tastes like a million bucks, and is sure to impress even the pickiest little eater.  Tonight we are having one of my family's favorite dishes, A Sweet Pea Chef's Chicken Parmesan, and a big loaf of my ciabatta bread. 

I don't remember now where I got the recipe, it's been recopied about 5 times in my book I've made it so often.  Here's the crowd pleaser:

Ciabatta Bread

• 1 1/2 cups warm water
• 1 1/2 tsp salt
• 1 1/2 tsp sugar
• 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 3 1/4 c. flour
• 2 1/2 tsp yeast

Mix the water, sugar and yeast and proof until creamy, about 5 minutes.  Mix flour and salt, add yeast mix and oil to flour.  Mix with dough hook for 5 minutes.  Dough will be wet, DO NOT ADD FLOUR! 

Scrape into a well greased bowl, cover with plastic wrap.  Rise 1 1/2-2 hours.  Flour surface, cut in half.  BE GENTLE!  DO NOT PUSH OUT AIR!  Put dough on parchment paper, stretch into a rectangle, and create dimples with your fingers.  Cover with a damp kitchen towel and rise another 45 minutes.  Preheat oven to 425 F., and cook 25-30 minutes.  YUM!