Olive Paste And Blue Cheese Canapi - cooking recipe

Ingredients

1/4 lb black olives, cured, pitted
1 garlic clove, mashed to a paste (or put through a garlic press)
2 tablespoons pine nuts
3 tablespoons olive oil
1/4 lb blue cheese (or more, Cabrales, Roquefort, or Gorgonzola)
black olives (for garnish)
long crusty bread, cut into 1/4-inch slices

Preparation

Place the olives, garlic, pine nuts, and olive oil in the bowl of a processor and chop as finely as possible. [May be prepared ahead]
Spread thinly on bread slices.
Cover with blue cheese.
Decorate with a piece of black olive.
Makes 2 canapis per serving.