Because all toast deserves to be dressed up in a fancy outfit.
Anyone else get a liiiittle carried away when you go to the farmer’s market? You arrive thinking you’ll pick up some peaches and an heirloom tomato or two, but somewhere between setting your expectations of self control and the stroll from your car to the booths, your hair gets let waaay down and when all’s said and done, you end up walking away with enough strawberries to open a jammery, kale to write a cookbook, beets to be Dwight, and 4 different types of olive oil because you were too indecisive to settle on a single flavor infusion that you just had to have them all?
That never happens to me. Except it does each and every time I go to the farmer’s market.
On my last hoorah through the farmer’s market, I brought home enough produce for two weeks, and the second I walked in the door of my house, I started making farmer’s market toasts from some of my fun finds. So what I should really be calling these toasts is Farmer’s Market Toasts because you can make them out of any of your farmer’s market impulse buys. But just for the sake of stating the obvious, didyouknow that roasted asparagus is thebombdotcom? True story. Anditmakes a reallygoodtoast.
I roasted up the bushel of asparagus and sliced some vibrant, juicy vine-ripened tomatoes. I had brie cheese in my refrigerator that was all, “I wanna play,” so I added it to the toasts, too. And of course, we do the sunny side up egg because: protein…and goo. Since I had gluten-free bread and mustard aioli from the turkey pastrami reubens I made recently, I just had to action those items as well. All of these things put together makes for a farmer’s market metropolis in your face.
I used to think toast was just a really great excuse for butter, but then these crispy critters came into my life. What if I said this is the best toast I ever did eat?
Toast: not just for butter.
Roasted Asparagus and Tomato Toasts with Mustard Aioli
Ingredients
- 1 pound asparagus trimmed
- 5 slices gluten-free bread of choice
- Brie or goat cheese
- 1 to 2 heirloom or vine-ripened tomato sliced
- 5 eggs sunny side up
- Mustard Aioli
Instructions
- Follow the instructions for the mustard aioli. Refrigerate until ready to use.
- Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
- Remove and discard the rough ends of the asparagus and lay them on a baking sheet. Drizzle with olive oil, sea salt, and cracked black pepper. Use your hands to rub the oil over the stalks to ensure they’re fully coated. Bake for 8 minutes.
- Toast the bread with cheese on top in the oven with the asparagus (or in the toaster) until golden-brown and crispy.
- While the toast and asparagus are baking, you can cook your eggs in a frying pan.
- Remove toast and asparagus from the oven. Add desired amount of brie or goat cheese, sliced tomatoes, asparagus, sunny-side up egg and mustard aioli and enjoy!
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Gotta love a fancy toast. These are awesome, Julia!
Thanks, love!
YUM! I love asparagus on toast. Darryl’s mom and dad make creamed asparagus on toast and it’s soooooooooo good. Also, I totally miss The Office, your Dwight reference made me remember that and be sad. Your photos are gorgeous, look at how pretty that egg looks!
Oof! Cream of asparagus sounds amazing! I’m glad you got The Office reference…wasn’t sure if I’d be getting a lot of deer-in-headlights responses 😉
These ARE fancy toasts – and look at those eggs – they are PERFECT! It’s almost to pretty to eat. Ha. Who am I kidding, I’d finish both of these in 2.5 seconds!
2.5 seconds is about how long it took me to wolf them down. Once my shoot was over, I got real un-fancy with these fancy toasts. It was a little bit outta control 😉
haaa, i’m dying at Toast: not just for butter. It’s usually just my excuse for butter or excessively dangerous amounts of peanut butter. But this looks straight up amazing!
Same with me, girl! Butter…jam…slather it on. But I like that these have a little substance to them so that I’m not eating half a loaf of toast. 😉
I’m weak in the knees just looking at these toasts. MAMA.
They’re a real show-stopper, I tell you what!
The best toasts I wanna eat. Yum!
I totally feel you! When I go to the Farmers Market, I tend to buy way more than I planned. But, it’s not my fault. Everything just looks so good and there always seems to be something new to try! This looks delicious–Yum!!
Exactly! And all the farmers are all, “heeeeere try thiiiiiiis,” and you’re like, “well, okay.” And then you can’t possibly not hand over the cash in support of their fabulous produce-growing ways. It’s just. so. wonderful. 😉
I’ve never seen such a purdy toast in all my life! I’m going to go ahead and agree that roasted asparagus is the botdotcom and the thought of it paired with egg and mustard aoili is driving me nuts.
Oh, and yes, I always let my hair down at the farmers market and buy all the things. I think the three year old in me comes out and says “I want theees and thees and somadis and one of those…” and then I get home and panic because I can’t eat it fast enough. #firstworldproblems
You hit the nail on the head. Farmers Markets hurt so good 😉
What a simply gorgeous, but simple supper!
I totes get carried away at our market. Something happens between the stuff I need and the stuff I WANT then I remember I have to bike home with everything. And I always end up with bits that don’t make sense together.
And yes, fancy toast deserves a chance! This one’s a beaut.
Most of the time, I forget what I wanted to buy in the first place and end up going to the grocery store afterwards. It’s a sin. A down and dirty sin. 😀
You and I are farmer’s market TWINS! I just can’t control myself once I’m there, no matter how much I pretend I’ll stick to my list. Sigh.
I don’t think I can still get local asparagus here (tragically) so this might have to wait until next spring! But I can guarantee you that it will happen eventually. I’m never one to turn down a runny yolk.
Holy mackerel, can you imagine if we went to the farmer’s market together? There’d be no food left in the world. And we’d be dining like queens 😀
My mother-in-law always makes creamed asparagus on toast for me and I love it! Yours looks so tasty, Ju! My mouth is watering 😉
ooh these toasts look delicious. love coming across new topping ideas to try. definitely will be making the recipe!
Came across this on Foodgawker, and pinned it right away. Delicious, can’t wait to make it!
“Beets to be Dwight…” I love it! I also love the sound of this recipe. What’s better than brie, heirloom tomatoes and asparagus?!
This was my supper tonight and I loved it. I added shaved ham to my son’s and husband’s because they are certain that they have to eat meat or it isn’t really supper, and they loved theirs too! Thanks so much for a great recipe!
I’m so glad you liked it, Vivian! The addition of shaved ham sounds fantastic! Thanks for the sweet note! xo