Toast or bruschetta?

stickywicket
stickywicket Member Posts: 27,697
edited 20. Sep 2014, 03:05 in Community Chit-chat archive
I've never seen the point of bruschetta. Although I love a nice baguette or ciabatta, for me, once toasted, the balance is all wrong between crusty and soft. I was even told recently that it should be toasted two days in advance before the topping is added :o Not ideal for a quick lunch, then :roll:

I have a sneaky feeling that, if bruschetta had been the English norm and some TV chef had come back from foreign parts trumpeting the wonder of the toasted square(ish) loaf, bruschetta would have long ago disappeared from menus.

What do you think?
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Comments

  • Slosh
    Slosh Member Posts: 3,194
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hot buttered toast everytime.
    He did not say you will not be storm tossed, you will not be sore distressed, you will not be work weary. He said you will not be overcome.
    Julian of Norwich
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,697
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    :D I'm salivating, Slosh :lol:
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • barbara12
    barbara12 Member Posts: 21,280
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Toast buttered with good quality strawberry jam...or marmalade.. :D
    Love
    Barbara
  • Slosh
    Slosh Member Posts: 3,194
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Plum jam for me.
    He did not say you will not be storm tossed, you will not be sore distressed, you will not be work weary. He said you will not be overcome.
    Julian of Norwich
  • dreamdaisy
    dreamdaisy Member Posts: 31,520
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I reckon that both have a role to play, for me it depends upon the time of day. Toast at breakfast and maybe lunch, bruschetta for mid-afternoon or early evening. DD
    Have you got the despatches? No, I always walk like this. Eddie Braben
  • LignumVitae
    LignumVitae Member Posts: 1,972
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Hot buttered crumpets for me please
    Hey little fighter, things will get brighter
  • Boomer13
    Boomer13 Member Posts: 1,931
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Bruschetta on hard crackers like Ryvita, etc for lunch.

    Buttered toast with peach marmalade or honey and cinnamon, please.
  • mig
    mig Member Posts: 7,154
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Well done toast with pork dripping and the jelly on. Mig
  • stickywicket
    stickywicket Member Posts: 27,697
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Toast for most, then :D Good :wink:
    If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving definitely isn't for you.
    Steven Wright
  • Airwave!
    Airwave! Member Posts: 2,458
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    Oh dear, 57% holding sway for 100% of the population, the rest will now be given a vote whether they want to leave and take their bread, garlic, tomatoes with them (it will run out soon!). This will be followed by the worth of all bread falling and us eating cake.

    Sound familiar?
  • dachshund
    dachshund Member Posts: 8,898
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    toast marmite and banana
    joan xx
    take care
    joan xx
  • applerose
    applerose Member Posts: 3,621
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I'm with DD on this. Hot buttered toast for breakfast and bruschetta any other time. My boss's brother-in-law is an Italian chef. His bruschetta is to die for.
    Christine
  • frogmorton
    frogmorton Member Posts: 29,332
    edited 30. Nov -1, 00:00
    I voted both because it depends when and in what circumstances.

    This week I have been eating 5 seed wholemeal toast with butter and philede*phia...yum :D

    Being a piggy - BOTH is all a could vote.

    love

    Toni xxx