Lisa Mushaw: Hi! I am Lisa Mushaw, owner of Treasures of Tuscany - An Epicurean Voyage. Today, we are preparing Panzanella. Panzanella is tomato and bread salad.

Right now we are straining the bread that we had sitting in a bowl of water for about 20 minutes. So, what I did was I went ahead and poured the bread water into a strainer and I am just going to show you how we do this. I literally, I am just going to be pushing all the bread down trying to get the water to strain out of it and you really just like a kid have to gets your hands in here and squeeze out as much water as you possibly can, like so, and its just bread, dont be afraid of it, you just keep pushing as you can hear it until all the water, or not all the water but as much water as you can possibly get out is released. You just keep pushing and pushing and it will get there shortly.

I remember the first time that I ever made this I thought I must be doing something wrong, this couldnt possibly work. Its going to be a messy solid, but the great thing is, is when you put this bread in the salad, people wondering what did you do to that salad? Its just enough to add great conversation and theyll never figure out that its bread; if anything they might think its cheese.

So, here you go and I dont know if you can see this or not, I am going to tilt it for you to see, but as you can see a pretty much Ive gotten out, see how I am squeezing the bread. Theres not that much water left in here. So, this consistency is going to be fine to put in the salad.

So, were going to leave this for just a moment while we continue on with the rest of the salad.

And now I am going to show you how to chop tomatoes.