24 piquillo toasts Recipes

garlic clove, salt, blanched almonds (3 oz), toasted and cooled, water, extra-virgin olive oil, sherry vinegar, hot pepper sauce such as tabasco, black pepper, spanish piquillo peppers*, rinsed, drained, and patted dry, head romaine (1 lb), outer leaves discarded and head cut crosswise into 1/4-inch slices (8 cups), sliced serrano ham

extra-virgin olive oil, divided, chorizo, chopped, onion, ground sirloin, frozen shredded hash brown potatoes , 1/2 of a 26-oz bag, fresh thyme, leaves stripped and chopped, handful flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped, smoked sweet paprika, garlic, grated, salt and pepper, manchego cheese, piquillo peppers, drained or 3 roasted red peppers, hot sauce , to taste, red onion, thinly sliced into rings, seedless cucumber , very thinly sliced on an angle, vine-ripe tomato, sliced, crusty rolls, split and toasted

green lentils picked over, bay leaf, kosher salt, olive oil, garlic thinly sliced, sherry vinegar, piquillo peppers torn into 1/2 inch wide strips, flat-leaf parsley roughly chopped