Funky Brie town

[Prest4time]

I'll not get on a soapbox about Brie, but I love it too much. This one is really yum.... tried it tonight for the college crowd at my house. A hit!

Ingreds:

A good, round sourdough bread, unsliced. (got mine from a local fresh deli)
A round brie cheese that will fit nicely inside the sourdough
Fresh rosemary
One to two fresh clusters of garlic (clusters, not cloves)
Extra virgin olive oil
Fresh baguette bread
That's it!

Have you seen one of those bread bowls that you fill with soup? Well make one. Hollow out the round sourdough being careful to carve a nice "lid" to put back on. Meanwhile, cut the top of at least one or two garlic clusters exposing the fresh garlic, (poor garlic). Chop/ mince the fresh rosemary. Drizzle garlic with EVOO, top that with lots of fresh rosemary, wrap the bulbs in tin foil and roast in the oven for about an hour. (your house should be smelling like an Italian restuarant after 15 minutes). Meanwhile, you have carved the bread bowl, made a nice lid and now you place that whole round of brie snuggly into the bread bowl. Squeeze the roasted garlic/rosemary butter out of its skin and smear all over the top of the Brie. Put the bread lid on and baste the whole thing in olive oil. Wrap it all up in foil, place in oven (I think I did 375 degrees) for about 45 to 50 minutes. Remove, take foil off and you have a wonderful, melt-in-your-mouth garlic-rosemary-brie concoction. Serve with toasted baguettes. Its super simple, but tastes like heaven.

[lushy]

I honestly would kill for that right now. Will make. Yummmm!!!!

[Sunbeam]

I love my brie in a puff pastry shell, drizzled with melted rasberry jelly.

[betty boop]

Lovely, ..........thanks Allie ........

[KatieSmiles]

Thanks Allie,
I'll be trying this out soon!
I like your idea too dow, I've never worked with puff pastry but if it has cheese in it , how can it go wrong?

Cheese, glorious cheese! Yummo!

[Sunbeam]

The easy way to make this is in already-baked shells. The raw dough is pretty fragile to handle. There are also bite-sized baked pastry shells sold in many stores, and they work very well for this.

[Prest4time]

Dow,
I have had the pre-done shells and its really good too, but this is so different. Same concept of brie in the bread, but its really a lot different! I used to wrap Brie cheese in crescent rolls and pastry dough, but lacked flavor, just looks only. This has so much flavor and the thickness of the sourdough bread with that roasted garlic and rosemary simmering inside... its just so yum.

[Sunbeam]

Thanks,
Maybe I will try this at my husband's retirement celebration. The event when I'm still planning to have that ONE glass of wine.

[soccermom]

Yum. Can't wait to try this.

[Determinator]

holy crap that sounds angelic. Allie...see what you've done to my carbohydrate count!!!???