Make Ahead

Late Night Feta Smash with Cherry Tomatoes

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August 14, 2011
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  • Serves 2 very hungry and slightly boozy parents with plenty left over for lunch the next day
Author Notes

For those nights when you didn't get the kids to bed on time, already had a couple drinks and just don't want to turn on the oven. For the base layer, I used the Mama Claire's French Bread I'd made the day before and pan-toasted them with some butter and olive oil. Then we sat on the floor in front of the television and ate them not even minding about the crumbs! —Niknud

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Ingredients
  • 8 ounces feta
  • 1/2 shallot, minced
  • 1 garlic clove, minced
  • 1 tablespoon lemon zest, packed
  • 1/3 cup chopped fresh herbs (I used flat leaf parsley)
  • 1/2 cup kalamata olives, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon dried oregano
  • salt and pepper to taste
  • 1/4 cup good quality olive oil (or to taste)
  • cherry tomatoes, sliced
  • pan toasted bread or crackers (toasty bread is better)
Directions
  1. Combine the first 8 ingredients together in bowl and stir in enough olive oil to make it sort of stick together. Most of the proportions are completely flexible so if you like more (or less) of something go nuts. Slather on top of toasted bread and top with slices of your best cherry tomatoes. You could also do this as an appetizer with crackers or as part of a cheese and olive plate.

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Recipe by: Niknud

Full-time working wife and mother of two small boys whose obsessive need to cook delicious food is threatening to take over what little free time I have. I grew up in a family of serious cookers but didn't learn to cook myself until I got married and got out of the military and discovered the joys of micro-graters, ethiopian food, immersion blenders and watching my husband roll around on the floor after four servings of pulled pork tamales (with real lard!) complaining that he's so full he can't feel his legs. Trying to graduate from novice cooker to ranked amateur. The days of 'the biscuit incident of aught five' as my husband refers to it are long past but I still haven't tried my hand at paella so I'm a work in progress!

2 Reviews

Niknud August 19, 2011
I'm not sure a sommelier would approve of our pairing but, since the kids were close to getting sent off to indentured servitude that night I was looking for easy and direct not so much subtle.....
checker August 19, 2011
Pour me a glass of that bourbon, please...