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[frahulettaes]

Italian picnic bread ( savoury pie )... well it does have a filling... but technically is it a pie or bread... you will have to decide.
Originally uploaded by HyperBob

Italian picnic bread ( savoury pie )... well it does have a filling... but technically is it a pie or bread... you will have to decide.

This bread has sausage, sundried tomatoes, olives, and eggs on top, and the central section is filled with gruyere, and mozerella cheeses that have been tossed in garlic parsley and lemon zest. It serves 8 people with everybody getting an egg and half a sausage. Recipe from Judith Olney on Bread.

This made my mouth water. So fantastic. I love peasant food.

Tomorrow, sausage!

Comments

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

That is gorgeous and so sensible. Have you or are you going to make it? You know our eggs in the UK are brown and it wouldn't have quite the same look. You could probably source white ones but they're not normally on the shelves.

Is there somewhere on your journal that explains the course you're doing and why? You seem to be making interesting changes in you life and I'm dead jealous about the cookery course. I've done lots of jobs through the years but am now cooking for a small events catering company. Am much poorer but infinitely happier. :)

[frahulettaes.livejournal.com]

WEEE! A fellow cook! You know, I've cooked for people since I was 12 or so. I'm recently divorced and my son lives with his Dad so I had this opportunity to to something with my life. Something new, what ever I wanted. I stumbled on an add for a local cooking school and decided to have a look. I LOVED IT. I knew as soon as I hit the door I was in. So in. So I signed up, got financing and just went for it. I live in Los Angeles Ca and the school is in Hollywood at the corner of Sunset and Vine. It's just so much fun and yeah, I'll make less, but I will be happier and I guess I choose happy poverty over miserable wealth.
I'm just in the process of changing my journal over to food so I've been posting pix to inspire me and because I just love food and could geek out on it all day long. This sort of recipe totally appeals to the peasant in me.
I will make it at some point but now with work and school, I'm busy 16 hours a day. Whew!
It's funny about the eggs because our white eggs are cheap and common and we pay twice for browns. Which I prefer anyway. The browns that is.
Also, I'm a big fan of small farm butter. But that's a whole other post!

[http://users.livejournal.com/tweedle_/]

I have never run across small farm butter but I like the sound of it. But we do get regional and continental butters in the supermarkets. There is nothing like a fresh French bagette with French butter. Sadly an English bagette just doesn't cut it.

I'm originally from Canada so when I go home there are always white eggs but I forget and always go, 'Wow,' when I open a box. I thought it was only the type of hen that dictated egg colour - suppose it's a supply and demand thing that jacks up the price. Most of our eggs are free range now and I wouldn't buy anything else.

Really glad you've grabbed the opportunity. I had an IT contract end and took a job cooking in an Austrian ski chalet for the winter 05/06 season. Changed my life. :) Wish I'd done it 20 years earlier. I think I now know what I want to be when I grow up. ;) I'm really looking forward to hearing about your course and what comes next. And I will wait patiently to read about it. Go you!

[pecos.livejournal.com]

OMG...I'm on South Beach and that photo is REALLY MEAN! *drools* Now I want to go to Italy.

[frahulettaes.livejournal.com]

Hee! Me too! I'm dying to make this. Wanna come and eat some? :)