How to make easy tomato bruschetta, the authentic Italian appetizer with fresh basil, plus lots of toppings ideas! Before I get super excited about this to die for heirloom tomato bruschetta, I’d like to elaborate a little on the subject. Why? Because there seems to be a lot of confusion out there. So, what is 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 ...
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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 ...
Bruschetta Bar
How to Make a Bruschetta Bar - Entertaining the Italian Way! Just in case our love and obsession with bruschetta and all things tomato isn’t obvious on this blog. And because long hot summer days call for for garden parties and weddings, I present you with the ultimate Bruschetta Bar! An Italian antipasto platter of sorts, the most fun way to entertain If you ask me. There isn’t an exact recipe, as it all depends on the region you live in and what is available there. For us things don’t ...
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 ! Let’s talk about real burrata bruschetta! 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 ...
Tomato Bread Recipe ( Bruschetta )
For just a moment I what to take you way back in time with this tomato bread recipe. Right after WW2 in the countryside of Romania, where life was tough, and peasants that lived on their farms in the fields were forced to move into villages. The government took away their lands and livestock and literally bulldozed the homes they built from the ground up with their own hands. My grandfather was one of those peasants, and until the day he passed away he could not get over that violation against ...
Warm Farro Panzanella Salad Recipe
A warm farro panzanella salad recipe featuring fall and winter flavors: roasted butternut squash, shiitake mushrooms, whole-grain farro and cannellini beans tossed together with a fragrant vegan basil pesto, tomatoes, herbs and day old bread. The absolute best! Panzanella is traditionally an Italian summery bread salad from Tuscany consisting of sliced tomatoes, basil and stale or grilled bread rubbed with garlic and tossed with olive oil and vinegar. Today I wanted to get creative ...
Oven Roasted Cherry Tomatoes Recipe
Simple and quick oven roasted cherry tomatoes with thyme, rosemary and creamy goat cheese. Slow roasting method included as well. If you haven’t roasted tomatoes yet this summer, now is the time to do it you guys! You really don’t have to do the slow roasting method in the summer heat, all you need is a hot oven at 450”F for about 20 to 25 minutes. Just until the tomatoes burst and start releasing those magnificent juices. I’d go for a double or even triple batch here, ...
Traditional Peperonata Recipe
A rustic Southern Italian dish traditionally from Calabria, made of stewed peppers with tomatoes, onions and herbs, peperonata Calabrese showcases the beauty of peppers like no other dish. Lovely as a healthy vegetarian side dish scooped over a bed of creamy polenta, as an appetizer on top of ricotta bruschetta or as a main dish tossed together with your favorite short pasta, like rigatoni or pene. This is a really nostalgic dish for me as it reminds me of the man in the photo. So I make ...