1UP Mushroom Bruschetta!

Hello again! It christilynn providing you with another delicious recipe!

I woke up yesterday morning with the sun shining in my face. I hopped out of bed knowing it was going to be a gorgeous yet busy day for me. By 11 am. I was at the grocery store making a very large purchase. Not only had I volunteered to send a very bulky and delicious care package to my boyfriend, i also voulenteered to make enough yummy treats for his three house mates and his best friend.

I arrived back home and somehow managed to bring all the groceries in with one trip ( Trust me..if a car drove by they would have stared at me because I looked pretty funny). I definitely need to fuel up for this day of baking ( i started around 1 pm. and didn’t finish until 10 pm.!) thought about something small but delicious  could make myself.

When I unloaded the groceries I was reminded of one of my favorite Super Mario Games – Super Mario 64. For those of you who have not played it, it starts off with a note Peach writes to mario saying she baked him a cake. I laughed to myself wondering if she took as long as I knew I was going to take with all of the baked goods I was about to make.

With that game in mind, I thought of making myself a Super Mario themed lunch. What would the lunch consist of? Mushrooms of course!

I raided the fridge and came up with:

Roasted Zucchini, Sautéed Mushroom Bruschetta topped with Caramelized Onions, Parmesan and Gorgonzola Cheese.

I promise you this recipe will satisfy both sweet and savory, creamy and crunchy cravings! So here it is!

1up Mushroom Bruschetta

• 1 zucchini
• 1 normal size onion
• 1 fresh carton of baby bella mushrooms (already chopped to go!)
• 1 bag of bruschetta bread (This can be found in the bakery department – its bread sliced into brushcetta size – if you cannot find that, french bread will do)
• 1/4th cup dry white wine
• 4  tbsp. butter
• Fresh Parmesan cheese ( I bought the wedge – its actually a lot cheaper than buying it pre-shredded!)
• Gorgonzola cheese ( I bought the pre-crumbled )
• olive oil
• salt
• pepper

This Recipe should make around 8 to ten bruschetta bites!

Preheat the oven to 500 degrees and be careful!

Zucchini:

Slice the zucchini 1/8th inch thick  and place on a non stick pan or pan with tin foil. Sprinkle Olive oil and LIGHTLY salt and pepper the zucchini. Use your hands and gently mix to coat and incorporate the ingredients. Place the zucchini in the oven for about 7 minutes. When the 7 minutes are up flip the zucchini slices over and cook for another seven minutes.

PLEASE NOTE! : If some of your zucchini slices begin to look very charred, do not panic. some will get charred to a crisp. this happens :3

Your Zucchini should look like this!

While your waiting for the zucchini, rinse and pat your baby bellas dry. Thinly slice the onion so when it caramelize it will be long, stringy and delicious : )

Take a large nonstick pan and heat 2 tbsp. of butter and a generous sprinkle of olive oil, on medium high heat. on the other burner, heat a medium to small pan with another 2 tbsp. of butter and generous sprinkle of olive oil on medium – medium high heat.

(By now, your Zucchini should be ready to flip – don’t forget!)

When both pans are heated, place the baby bellas in the large pan, and sliced onions in the smaller pan. Stir both occasionally to coat and re-coat them in the butter and olive oil. (I used the same utensil for both… no big deal : P )

You want to cook the mushrooms until they are golden brown, and caramelize the onions – this will take about ten minutes, so you can head back over to the zucchini in the mean time and pull them out of the oven.

set the oven to 375 now, and place your bruschetta bread on a nonstick pan. Sprinkle a little bit of olive oil on it and place it in the oven for about 5 minutes (or when the crust around the bread starts to turn a golden brown)

When mushrooms are golden brown, pour in the wine and stir. let it cook for another three minutes.

When onions and mushrooms are done take them off the heat. (the bread should be done as well)

What you do with the cheese is up to you. what I did was took my potato pealer and sliced the parmesan cheese so it gave me paper thing slices.

As far as construction goes, I layered 2 pieces of thin parmesan cheese on the bread, then 2 zucchini, then a couple of mushrooms, then the onions, and then the gorgonzola cheese.

Hope you enjoy the recipe!!!

~Alexa & Christilynn ~