Rainie came up with a fabulous recipe a few days ago,
How about making croutons with a nutty bread.
Cook short strips of bacon until crisp, add cherry tomatoes to warm through. Pour dressing of olive oil, white wine vinegar, coarse grain mustard over bacon and tomatoes. Place various lettuce leaves on plate, add cooked bacon and tomatoes, add croutons, drizzle dressing over and garnish with chopped chives.
Croutons will only take a few minutes in the already hot oven, bacon and tomatoes only take a few minutes whilst putting leaves onto plates.
We make croutons for soup quite regularly, and after a serious revisit to all those bits of loaf which are still hanging around, we gave them a seeing to again yesterday.
What amazes me, is that something as basic as chunks fried bread can be sold with a tiny breath of garlic for actual money! I mean, use old bread, mix with cement, package up and rake in the dosh...
Mind boggles!