Wed 4 Oct 2006

This meal is a little foggy to me because I made and took the picture over a month ago. But I do recall it made me inordinately happy. If I remember the rest correctly (and I often don’t), this meal took place after a particularly long drive from work, and I walked into my place thinking, Oh my God I hate traffic, I need a beer, and what in the world am I going to make for dinner? I made Toasted Ciabatta Pizzas with olives and basil, the after-work salve, as it turns out.
This little makeshift pizza made me feel like I was at some upscale sports bar during happy hour having a beer and a snack, but instead I was at home alone, and that’s cool too, because I made this dinner myself (always very satisfying), and it was easy and tasted good. Ain’t a thing wrong with that.
Have you ever heard of using bread to grate your garlic? This one was new to me, but I loved it. Toast the bread, then rub the garlic against it for a surprisingly effective mincing. And I’m sorry that useful information is so boring to read sometimes.
This is an abrupt ending, but it will have to do since I have apartments to look for (kicked out of mine due to “owner occupancy.” Boo!)
October 10th, 2006 at 8:49 am
I have heard of using toasted bread to grate garlic. In fact, the best garlic bread I’ve ever had was made that way. The waiter rubbed a garlic clove all over the rough surface of toasted bread then drenched the bread in olive oil. Delicious.
October 10th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Yes, olive oil instead of tomato sauce–that’s how you make this one too. Fan-tastic.
October 12th, 2006 at 10:46 am
Tomato sauce for garlic bread?!?!? ?
October 14th, 2006 at 1:09 pm
Well, my dish was technically called a pizza….