Bruschetta Pasta, a fresh tomato orecchiette pasta salad with sweet cherry tomatoes, basil, lemon and garlic. The quintessential meatless summer meal to make use of all those colorful homegrown or farmers market tomatoes and basil bounty. Satisfying, filling and refreshing! Bruschetta Pasta Salad A fresh riff on the classic capellini pomodoro dish featuring all the flavors of an authentic Italian bruschetta bread. The chewy orecchiette pasta here takes the place of the garlic rubbed bread ...
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Italian Tomato Bruschetta Recipe
How to make authentic Italian tomato bruschetta recipe, the classic appetizer with fresh basil, heirloom tomatoes plus many toppings ideas! What is Italian bruschetta ? A grilled slice of crusty bread rubbed with garlic and brushed with a good extra virgin olive oil, then topped with your favorite things. In my case: heirloom tomatoes which are the absolute best tomatoes for bruschetta. Basically a rustic open-faced sandwich, one of my favorite things I grew up eating. In other words: ...
Grilled Bruschetta Panzanella Salad Recipe
How to make grilled Panzanella salad, one of the most delicious classic Italian bread salads, a Tuscan peasant dish worthy of royalty, traditionally made with day old bread. Because bread and tomatoes you guys! It really can't get any better than a bowl of this summer bruschetta panzanella salad and a pitcher of strawberry lemonade under the shade of the grapevine, outside my kitchen door. Two of my favorite things making the most beautiful mess of all. Grilled crusty bread, fragrant ...
Shrimp Bruschetta & Crostini Recipe
Shrimp Bruschetta Anyone ? You know what I’m really good at ? What I master like a boss ? Rubbing a piece of shrimp bruschetta with a garlic clove until disintegrated. I am the self proclaimed queen of bruschetta, crostini and grilled cheese panini. I’m good at other things too, but the bruschetta game kids, I dominate it. You name it, I make it happen ! Okay, so it’s not rocket science, but still, you need to achieve that perfect balance of crunchy and soft. Garlic and sweetness, it’s gotta ...
Mushroom Bruschetta Appetizer Recipe
Mushroom Bruschetta, a true rustic Italian appetizer of garlic bread topped with wild mushrooms cooked in white wine! This wild mushroom bruschetta appetizer was first mentioned when I wrote the about Florentina page, here on Ciao Florentina. That’s where I first talked about my grandpa who would plop me on the back seat of his old rusty bike after the rain, and we would go search for wild mushrooms. So we could make this exact mushroom bruschetta. I call it an appetizer, but for us it was the ...
Burrata Bruschetta Recipe
Heavenly Burrata Bruschetta with Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes on Crusty Italian Garlic Bread ! Burrata Bruschetta Recipe The rustic grilled piece of garlic bread that would be my last meal on Planet Earth, If I was asked that question. Unless I said that about some other meal on here, in which case I take that one back; unless of course I said the rustic chicken stew over creamy polenta..I probably did, didn’t I…? So let me just add this burrata bruschetta to that to make it a meal. Okay, ...
Ribollita Recipe + Video
A classic Tuscan Ribollita soup recipe made with seasonal vegetables, creamy white beans and kale then thickened with chunks of garlic bruschetta instead of the more traditional stale bread. It's best made ahead a day or two so the deep flavors get a chance to marry before reheating into a delicious meatless pot of goodness. Ribollita Soup Zuppa di Ribollita (pronounced ri-bow-lee-tah) which means reboiled in Italian is basically yesterday's leftover vegetable soup thickened up with stale ...
Dairy Free Potato Soup Recipe + Video
This easy dairy free potato soup is made without using any heavy cream or gluten flour but it is silky creamy, nutritious and oh so flavorful. Simply divine and comforting, load it up with your favorite vegetables for a hearty meatless meal everyone is sure to love. Dairy Free Potato Soup Lusciously creamy but without the dairy, you are guaranteed to be going back for seconds of this best homemade potato soup from scratch. Filling, cheesy, loaded with broccoli or your favorite veggies ...
Garlic Knots Recipe
The best homemade Garlic Knots recipe from scratch using our homemade Italian pizza dough recipe. Easy and comforting with pillowy soft center and crispy baked bottoms, generously brushed with a divine parsley garlic olive oil sauce while still sizzling hot. Pizza Dough Garlic Knots Think of them like the fun cousin of breadsticks, an Italian American creation, a New York thing that took place in a pizzeria somewhere in or around Brooklyn or Queens many moons ago. The jury is still out on ...
Fregola Pasta
Fregola pasta, a uniquely delicious and nutty Sardinian pasta made from hard durum wheat flour and water hand rolled into little dough pearls then toasted into a beautiful mix of golden, yellow and brown shades. Reminiscent of risotto, Succu or Sardinian couscous, Fregula is particularly nice coated in fresh basil pesto and topped with roasted cherry tomatoes and a kiss of citrus. Fregola Pasta Hold on to summer with this perfectly cooked Sardinian Fregola Pomodoro or Fregula Sarda coated in a ...