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Bruschetta

Appetizers - Bread - -

INGREDIENTS

3 roma tomatoes; slice into 4 spears, sprinkle with salt and olive oil and roast in the oven for a while (275F/135C for an hour, or hotter and quicker if you're in a hurry)
5 fresh basil leaves, chopped up pretty fine, but still recognizable as leaves
6 kalamata olives, pitted and chopped up
2 pieces grainy, seedy bread
clove of garlic, peeled

METHOD

Mix the first three ingredients in a bowl and let it sit for about five minutes.

Toast the bread until golden and crunchy. Rub a peeled clove of garlic onto the bread, making sure your garlic is getting rubbed into the bread. You should still have most of a clove of garlic when you're done, that you can use for something else.

Spoon the tomato olive basil goo onto the garlicky bread and serve, in bed, with a glass of wine.

NOTES

Last night I was oven drying some roma tomatoes, and I took out a few while still juicy to make this bruchetta. I then served it in bed to my very sleepy boyfriend, who couldn't say anything but "yummmmmmm" for a full 3 minutes.

posted by Connie Deighan

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