Christmas Bruschette

My dear wife made these awesome bruschette the Sunday before Christmas so that I could sit back and relax after a long holiday season at the restaurant. The loaf of bread that she made was so pretty that it was a shame to slice it for bruschette, but the result was great! Thank you baby!

Almost Too Beautiful to Slice for Bruschette

Christmas Colors or Colors of the Italian Flag?

Needs Drinking

For wine, we opened a 2006 Linden Petit Verdot. The slight vegetal flavors in the wine worked with the peppers, but overall, the wine wanted more acidity to work with the goat cheese. I would say that this wine is no longer improving and it would be time to start drinking what bottles we have left. And pairing it with something softer and braised.

Bruschetta

What to do when you are too exhausted from a hard week of work to cook? When it is too hot to heat up the kitchen? When you have summer's bounty at your disposal? And when your wife just heated up the kitchen anyway to bake a loaf of her amazing Parmesan-Olive rustic bread? [You can bitch about a lot of things in life, but not when your wife hooks you up with fantastic bread!]

You make bruschetta!

Look at This Bread! My Girl Sure Can Bake Bread!

I Know You Are *Insanely* Jealous

Fresh corn, black tomatoes, basil, garlic, and olive oil. We threw in some olives because we were both craving the salt. Awesome. Simply awesome. It gets no finer than this.