Through the Paris video games, the Olympic Village will produce greater than 12,000 baguettes.

Most will come from bakers stationed on the village’s boulangerie—a French bakery, constructed inside a former energy plant, tasked with producing sufficient bread to sufficiently carb load the greater than 10,000 athletes competing on the summer time video games.

Others will likely be made by Olympians, themselves, who’re capable of take part in bread making tutorials led by the aforementioned bakers—as long as they’re not competing, consuming, or snoozing atop their cardboard beds.

However it shouldn’t matter who makes the bread within the Olympic Village. Any baguette, whether or not crafted by French bakers or thrown collectively by American canoe sprinters, can grow to be scrumptious—it simply wants the fitting plan. Generally that’s so simple as layering the inside with butter and ham, different occasions it requires bathing an over-the-hill loaf in French dressing so it might probably resurrect as panzanella.

With that in thoughts—and in hopes of inspiring at the very least one eating choice throughout the Olympic Village—listed here are 12 of our favourite baguette sport plans.

1. Dan Chief’s 4-Hour Baguette

Baguette fundamentals aren’t reserved for superhumans chasing fancy necklaces. Due to this Genius recipe from Dan Chief, anyone with an oven, salt, and dry yeast can transport themselves to the Olympic village boulangerie.

2. Crostini With Ricotta, Honey, and Lemon Zest

Food52 co-founder Merrill Stubbs unites ricotta, honey, and lemon to create crostini that exceed the sum of their only a few components. Serve these throughout breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert, each time—they’ll at all times hit.

3. Anchovy Lovers’ Crostini

These briny crisps from Carolina Gelen mix anchovy, miso, turmeric, jalapeno, Calabrian chili, and lemon zest to definitively reply the next query: Is there such a factor as an excessive amount of taste? No.

4. Not-Too-Candy Tomato Strawberry Bruschetta

This bruschetta is greatest loved on the precise second I am scripting this (a late afternoon throughout the fourth week of July) because it showcases two of summer time’s biggest treats: end-of-season strawberries and newly ripe tomatoes. Get pleasure from these crostini on a sizzling afternoon with an enormous, chilly, dry glass of white.

5. Smoked Trout Paté

Fourteen years after debuting on our website, this paté nonetheless maintains an ideal, five-star ranking. So, it needs to be no shock that the recipe’s remark part contains quotes like “one massive yum,” “my solely remorse is that I didn’t double it,” and “that is SOOO GOOD!”

6. Jamón Ibérico Panini

We’re not together with this since you want a recipe to assemble a ham and butter sandwich, however to remind you that everytime you stumble into excellent bread, there’s nothing higher than a ham and butter sandwich. Make sense?

7. Bocadillo El Camino

Not that anyone’s asking, however egg and potato served between sliced baguette is exactly what I’d need on the morning of an enormous sport.

8. Pan Bagnat

In line with recipe developer Waverly, pan bagnat—which is the sandwich model of salade Niçoise—requires a baguette of a sure high quality: “The bread will need to have a tough crust on the skin in any other case it is going to crumble,” she writes, “the purpose is for the French dressing to soak into the bread.”

9. Caramelized Pork Bánh Mì

An proprietor of 174 constructive evaluations, three contest wins, and an ideal five-star ranking, this bánh mì from group member monkeymom (etymology unknown) is among the most adorned recipes in Food52 historical past.

10. Paul Kahan Panzanella With Roasted Leeks, Pecans, & Apples

Legendary Chicago chef Paul Kahan’s panzanella that includes apples, leeks, pecans, and a punchy apple cider French dressing can rejuvenate any loaf that’s previous its prime. Serve this alongside roast rooster or an enormous piece of fish and also you’ve acquired your self fairly the night.

11. Finest French Onion Soup

Reality: All bread tastes good when it is smothered in Gruyere and sitting atop a pool of caramelized onion magma. That means, in case you’ve come into possession of a really horrible baguette, this French onion soup is your savior.

12. Bouillabaisse

Baguette’s at its greatest when dipped right into a bowl of garlic-forward seafood broth. Enter: Bouillabaisse, a shellfish soup bolstered by potatoes, parsley, saffron, and practically each fragrant on the grocery retailer.