"ch" by itself sounds like the letter "k" in "Kevin". If you want to have the American "ch" sound in Italian you should use the group "sce" or "sci". This little misunderstanding fooled me once.
I was invited to eat "bruschetta" pronounced in an American way and I was ready to try something new and...well was kind of fun to see something that I ate for decades!
OK just to be sure that we all know what we are talking about let me put a picture.
There are 2 basic ways of preparing it. The base is a slice of bread put on the barbecue. The secret is to have the crust and the outside of the crumb crunchy(I personally like if they get slightly burnt like in the photo) but the inside of it still soft.
The easiest way of making bruschetta is to take the barbecued bread, scrape a peeled clove of garlic on the surface, in this way the rough surface of the bread will scrape the garlic and little pieces of garlic and its own oil will be on the surface of the bread. Add some olive oil and salt if you like and you will eat something simply amazing!
The other way, like the picture suggest, is to put on the top of the bread some chopped tomatoes and fresh basil. Depending on your taste you can put chopped tomatoes or chopped tomatoes left to marinate a little bit in olive oil, salt and vinegar if you like.
I personally like also the bruschetta with a barbecued sausage on the top, less healthy than one with tomatoes but totally worth it.
OK this was a pretty long digression but whenever I can I will try to pair some grammar with some food...we can feed our minds and then our stomachs!
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