Step 1. Cancel your meal plan.
Step 2. Collect your refund and supply a kitchen.
Step 3. Cook!
We are going to be posting different recipes that we make with tips plus the occasional post about Top Chef. Doubt anyone will read this but there will be some food porn (pictures) up soon too.
The first recipe is Bruschetta:
The logic behind Bruschetta is that its really easy, pretty, and cheap.
Ingredients:
Tomatoes
Olive Oil
A good loaf of bread
Salt and Pepper
Fresh basil
(optional Mozzarella Cheese + Balsamic Vinegar)
Step 1: cut the bread into about inch thick slices, dice tomatoes and basil.
Step 2: fry bread at a high heat in a little bit of olive oil turning it over so that both sides start to turn golden brown.
Step 3: combine tomatoes with basil, salt and pepper in a large bowl
Step 4: take the bread off the stove and put on paper towel to drain a little bit of the oil.
Step 5: (optional add Mozzarella Cheese in thin slices on top of bread) then spoon tomato mixture onto bread. Add Balsamic vinegar on top if desired.
Serve! It is just that easy and it looks great!
Here is the inside scoop for the Tufts Locals:
Hi everyone! Okay, so what exactly did we use? By "bread" or "tomatoes," clearly we do not mean any kind of bread or tomatoes. Want tips? Ok, so Shaw's bakery bread (not in the bread aisle, over by the seafood / doughnuts, they are in brown paper bags) has pretty good loaves. Our favorites have been the olive bread and the garlic bread. We used olive bread with this recipe, but it probably would be great with either. I'm sure there are some good bakeries around, but just letting you know that if you're doing grocery shopping anyway the bread at Shaw's is not bad at all.
The tomatoes- here was the splurge. But, I mean, they're still tomatoes, and even heirloom tomatoes from Whole Foods aren't going to cost you an arm and a leg. We bought heirlooms in all different colors to make it pretty...and we also found that all these tomatoes do indeed taste different! We then were happily surprised to find that right outside Whole Foods (on Mystic Valley Parkway, walking distance from Boston Ave) there is a little herb garden. Who knows if we were allowed to pick it or not, but the basil was just beckoning to us, glistening green in the fresh sunlight. So, we got some free fresh basil. Now we are actually growing some, so we no longer have to be thieves. But if your basil hasn't sprouted yet, I'm sure they won't mind if a sprig or two is missing...
The first time we made this, we actually put some feta cheese on top instead of the Mozzarella. Because Whole Foods has fantastic marketing tactics to catch customers just like me, they had a fantastic sundried tomato/basil feta cheese out for a sampler. It was amazing, and we just had to get it. It went superbly with the tomato / olive bread mixture, and it added a lot of flavor of its own. However, if they aren't having this feta special that day, some fresh mozzarella (under tomato, otherwise it will slide off) and maybe some balsamic will do you just fine.
