Mix yeast with warm water and set aside a few minutes to dissolve. Add flour, 1 tablespoon olive oil, honey, salt, Parmesan cheese and cold ater. Mix well.

Combine remaining 1/3 cup olive oil and crusted garlic in small bowl. Set aside.

Grease baking pan with olive oil. Roll out dough with rolling pin to large circle on lightly floured surface and transer to pan. Puncture dough with finders or fork and coat to of dough with garlic-olive oil mixtuer. Sprinkle with thyme. Let dough rise aoubt 30 minutes.

While dough is rising, preheat oven to 400 degrees. Bake until evenly browned, 25 milnutes. Cool 30 minutes before serving.

This recipe was in Oregonian FoodDay 1/27/97. Foccaccia Wins Raves, by Rose Dosti A reader alerted us to a "better-than-average sandwich" she had at Nona's Courtyard Cafe in Ventura, Calif. "The focaccia bread was most interesting: good textured and flavorful."

Typos by Brenda Adams <adamsfmle@sprintmail. Com>