Cooking For Engineers

[youngcook]

I want a bruschetta recipe to make at home (kinda like Ishbel's principle) cuz I love to cook at home.I have made a bruschetta with pasta,but I don't have that recipe anymore and anyway I want plain bruschetta. Any ideas for how to make it and what to eat it with? (Please get eltonyo to answer. I like his answers.)

[youngcook]

Doesn't anyone here eat Bruschetta?

[Ishbel]

Yes.

Italian bread... rub with garlic. Add chopped tomatoes and some basil, with salt and pepper. Drizzle with EVVO. Grill (broil in US-speak?). Eat quckly.

[youngcook]

[Ishbel]

Bruschetta al tonno

Tinned tuna, mixed with red onion and a little mayonnaise - pile onto slices of Italian bread.

[youngcook]

Makes me want to eat the screen.

[youngcook]

Thanx ISHBEL.( she is the only who responded .) They were delicious. Any recipes for it with pasta?

[Ishbel]

You mean: add bread to pasta? Why?

[youngcook]

No. Add bruschetta to pasta.

[Michael Chu]

Bruschetta is toasted bread with garlic and tomatoes... do you mean proscuitto?

[GaryProtein]

He may mean the chopped tomatoes and garlic melange, even though bruschetta INCLUDES the bread. Ishbel said what it is. You can make it in many variations. Here's one:

Its tomatoes, garlic, onion, basil, peppers, oil and other aromatics.

basically this is the tomato melange I use:

2 pounds of tomatoes chopped finely, I pull out all the seeds and leave only the meat
1 red pepper chopped finely
2-4 cloves garlic, minced (I like it very garlicky, some less so)
1 ounce GRAPESEED oil (I don't like olive oil in any form but I love olives, traditionalists will use olive oil)
1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
10-12 fresh basil leaves, chopped (l like more basil)
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

You can use a food processor and pulse the mixture a few times until it is the consistency you like.

grill or broil baguettes that have been cut in 1/2" slices, then spoon on the mixture

[youngcook]

Nice to know that. Fire that website that told me bruschetta has no bread and is always made with pasta. Thanks, GP

[Ishbel]

Why did you think I added a topping to a bread base?

I think you need to ensure that menu websites you visit are actually genuine recipes!

[opqdan]

[qwertyblue64]

All I do is slice some hearty bread, toast it in the toaster oven until crisp, then simply rub garlic and brush oil on. No tomatoes, no arugula, no nothing, just a pure taste that's absolutely divine!