Hip Chicks Cook Too! Bruschetta Recipe

My daughter and I were watching the movie Julie and Julia together and one of the recipes caught our eye. It was visually pleasing and looking oh so yummy! We froze the screen and began to analyze what we believed to be in the recipe. We knew that she had cut up and fried a french bread in olive oil. Then covered it with tomatoes, red and yellow peppers and something green...which we determined was spinach.

The next day we set out to make this beautiful masterpiece. We played with the ingredients, the seasonings, until we got it just right. And it was to die for! Seriously! My nine year old daughter ate all the tomatoes and peppers, moaning the entire time. Now this is a girl who says she'll gag is she's forced to eat tomotoes.

We sat down to watch Julie and Julia again, but this time we watched the extras and low and behold...this beautiful, yummy thing we'd made was called Bruschetta. So I looked up the recipe online and found that the green stuff...was basil  instead of spinach.

We still prefer our way of making it, although we do add basil now.

Here is our recipe.

Ingredients:
2-3 (medium to large) FIRM tomatoes
1 Red Pepper
1 Yellow Pepper (you could use green if you prefer)
1/3 cup of olive oil
1 clove of garlic
1/2 tbs sugar
1 teaspoon salt & pepper
Basil or spinach (to taste) I use only a couple of leaves.

Instructions:

Step 1: Cut tomatoes into cubes (I cut and then scrape out the seeds), cut the peppers and put into a bowl

Step 2: Add the olive oil, salt, pepper (and basil or spinach)

Step 3: Using a garlic press, add the garlic to the bowl and mix well. Put in the refrigerator while you fry the bread. Let all the juices mix and get YUMMY!

Step 4: In a frying pan add a thin layer of olive oil. About 1 cup, then add the sliced bread. I like to flip the bread to get olive oil on both sides, then leave to fry.

Step 5: Remove bread from pan and add the tomatoes and peppers to the top.

Step 6: Sprinkle ground parmesan cheese over the top.

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