Bruschetta with Gorgonzola and Marscapone

Welcome to our weekly Foodie Friday link up! I’m linking up with Annmarie from the Fit Foodie Mama, Esther from Chocolate Runner Girl + Jess from Hello To Fit to create awesome healthy recipes each week! This week’s theme = Organic Harvest!

I’m sharing something vaguely different, but still very much food and recipe-related this week!

Confession: I went to a culinary school open house at the beginning of last month and now I also want to go to culinary school. Obviously there’s no way I’ll ever be able to finagle this during residency, but I wonder if it’s something I can do someday? Far off into the distance?

The Promise Culinary School was started in 1997 as an extension of Elijah’s Promise, and offers vocational programs in both Culinary Arts and Baking & Pastry Arts.  There’s a day program and a bilingual (English/Spanish) evening program for the Culinary Arts program and a day program for the Baking & Pastry Arts program.

Food tastings were involved! I usually don’t even like gorgonzola or cheddar cheese, but this bruschetta and frittata were super delicious!

All three programs offer the ServSafe certification to allow students to work within the food industry, and have their students acquire externships, and they also help with job placement assistance.

There are a bunch of ways for students to qualify for financial assistance! Students may qualify for full tuition ($4250-4500) assistance in a variety of ways, as there are funds available to assist youth, veterans, unemployed, disabled or displaced workers.

Elijah’s Promise also started a catering business in 1998 and offers healthy meals to kids in the area and to the community’s elderly and homebound through the Meals on Wheels program. (EP is also the soup kitchen that my favorite food truck in the world–Soupervan–used to donate a meal to for every meal that you bought from them! I miss that food truck so much. :'( )

I got a muffin too!

This recipe was adapted from Ree Drummond by Chef Pearl! She may be the one teaching the resident cooking classes for our under-development nutrition curriculum! :]

Bruschetta with Gorgonzola and Marscapone

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Bruschetta with Gorgonzola and Marscapone

Prep Time5 minutes mins

Cook Time10 minutes mins

Servings: 4 servings

Ingredients

• 4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
• 5 cloves garlic finely minced
• 2 pints red grape tomatoes halved lengthwise
• 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar
• 16 whole fresh basil leaves
• 1 whole baguette or crusty loaf
• 2 tbsp gorgonzola or Roquefort cheese
• 2 tbsp marscapone cheese
• finely ground sea salt
• freshly ground black pepper
• pea sprouts for garnish

Instructions

• In a small skillet, heat the oil over medium-high heat. Add garlic + stir, lightly frying for ~1 minute until golden. Pour the garlic + olive oil into a mixing bowl and allow to cool slightly.
• Add the tomatoes, balsamic + basil to the bowl. Sprinkle with salt + pepper. Toss to combine. Taste and add more basil + salt as needed. Cover and refrigerate for ~1 hour.
• Cut the baguette into diagonal slices to allow for the most surface area possible. Brush olive oil onto the bread and grill until golden brown.
• Mix cheeses and spread onto the bread, then give the tomato mixture a final stir and spoon onto the bread.
• Top with pea sprouts and serve.

End-of-Week-ish Recap!

• Time for another Day in the Life! This was my second rotation as a resident…in Practice Management!
• Have you ever hiked the Diamond Head Summit Trail? That’s one of the first things I did when I went to Hawai’i! :D Join me on my hike for Travel Tuesday!

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