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March
Bruschetta
Description:
This is a cool little Italian kinda’
thing. Flat out, it is nothing but extra mild salsa
on a piece of toast. But saying, “Would you
like some salsa on toast?” does not bode well
for an attempt at appearing cultured. So, call it
Bruschetta and offer it that way. Besides, I have
found that a few words in Italian or French can do
wonders on a date. Bruschetta is quick to make and
what is better, it looks like you spent all sorts
of time on it. In fact, even though you are going
to probably use little toasted pieces of bread all
set to go from the store, you can even say that you
seasoned the bread and then oven toasted it. Make
it seem like you put more effort into than you
really did.
Ingredients:
1. 2 Roma tomatoes, these are the harder
tomatoes that are about the size and shape of an
egg
2. Four leaves of fresh basil. (Yeah, you can use
the dried stuff in the bottle that is all chopped
and minced, but, it does make a difference to use
the fresh stuff here)
3. 1 tsp olive oil
4. ½ tsp of garlic powder
5. A bag of store bought toast things. The pieces
have to be about 1 ½” to 2 ½”
in diameter and about ¼” thick.
Directions:
Take the tomatoes and the basil and be sure to
wash them off. Otherwise, you will have pieces of
dirt on them and when you eat, the dirt will crunch
and sound really weird. Also, we eat enough dirt in
our everyday lives, especially when something falls
on the floor and we extend the ‘two-second
rule’ to three. So, why serve yourself more
dirt? Once everything is washed, cut the stem part
out of top of the tomatoes, and then dice them into
little cubes about ¼ “ by ¼ “.
Toss them in a bowl.
Now put the basil leaves on a cutting board and
cut them into little pieces about the same size as
the tomatoes. Toss them in with the tomatoes, add
the oil and the garlic powder and mix it all
together. The hard part is done.
Serving:
Put the tomato mix and all in a nice little bowl
and include a small spoon for scooping the mix out.
Place the bowl on a plate and arrange the little
toast things around it. To eat it, use the spoon to
rest some of the tomato stuff on the toast thing
and chow. Finally, a word of advice, dish one up
for your date and give it to her. If she lets you,
feed it to her! This show of class and tact will
probably get her to say, “Mmmm, tasty!”
even if she thinks it tastes like crap.
©2010, by Ron
DesMarais
Related Books
Ron
DesMarais started life in Charlottesville, VA and
has lived in several parts of the United States.
When people hear the number of times he has moved,
the question invariably arises as to whether or not
he was an ‘Army Brat.’ There is only a
half-truth there and that is found by dropping
‘Army’; unless, you consider ‘Army
of Darkness.’ After moving with his parents
for several years, Ron continued his nomadic ways,
which were spurred by his mother’s finding out
where he currently lived. In the process of
changing dwellings and never getting rental
deposits back (which he claims were never his
fault), Ron’s financial status required that
he start cooking for himself, as he could not
afford eating out. This resulted in his quickly
getting bored with Top Ramen and deciding to get
creative in the kitchen. Soon, a list of recipes
with a limited number of inexpensive ingredients
started coming together. What really bolstered the
creation of his book Cavemen
in the Kitchen, and the
writing of it as not just a cookbook but a
‘dating aid’ as well was when Ron ended
up at a date’s house after a financially
draining evening out. As both were hungry but Ron
too broke and both too tired to go out somewhere,
Ron dug through her cabinets, found some items to
work with and based on a recipe he had created
earlier, he created a meal for both. She loved it
and the results of the meal were amazing in ways
those under 18 should not hear about. From that
point, dates for Ron consisted of cooking dinner,
either at his house or the date’s house, and
afterwards, either watching a video or doing
something else. Click here
to order a copy of the book (Contains adult
content.)
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