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For those times when there isn't a lot of money in the bank or food in the cupboard take a page from Northern Italian peasant food culinary treats. When I was in Florence I feel in love with this dish, so simple and so satisfying. I was told it is called Fettunta. 

-DAVID BLOOM

Ingredients

1 good loaf of bread (possibly a sourdough round sliced)

fresh or frozen spinach (as much as you like)

1 can beans (navy, garbanzo or other)

6 cloves garlic

olive oil

1 lemon

Process

Set the oven to bake at 350

Put the individual slices of bread on a baking sheet (3 to 4 pieces per person) and place in the oven for ten minutes

Rub the toasted bread with fresh garlic and set aside

Put the spinach in a frying pan with olive oil until tender (if fresh) or until heated (if frozen)Slice into the spinach three cloves of garlic and turn of the heat

Repeat the process done to the spinach with the canned beans after a good rinse under cold water

The beans and spinach are served on the toasted bread with a bit of lemon juice.

Bon appetite!!

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