Tuscan Toasts

Ingredients

  • Bread
  • Mozzarella
  • Strachino- or cream cheesemixedwith Strauss sour cream
  • Sausage meat

Preparation

Step 1

Sliced mozzarella between the sliced bread ( I like to throw in a couple of salt-packed capers)
and then the bread is dipped in beaten eggs, like french toast and cooked in the griddle with some olive oil.


Italy has a huge history of using bread as base to start a meal, crostini or crostoni, larger slices of bread, for merenda:snacks.

One of my favorites is Salsiccia e Stracchino. Mix equal parts of simple sausage meat with stracchino cheese. Sometimes stracchino is called crescenza. If you cannot find it, I suggest using neufchatel cheese mixed with 2 tbs of sour cream.