Chicken Liver Crostini with Pickled Eggs

Ingredients

• 4 whole cloves
• plus 1 ½ tablespoons chopped fresh thyme
• 4 cloves garlic
• 2 bay leaves
• ½ teaspoon salt
• 1 chicken heart and 1 chicken gizzard, trimmed
• 6 ounces chicken livers
• + 15 more ingredients
• • 2 tablespoons butter
  • ¼ cup dry white wine
  • 1 cup onion
  • 3 tablespoons ruby Port
  • 12 1/3-inch-thick diagonal baguette slices
  • 1 tablespoon salt
  • ½ cup water
  • 1 ½ cups red-wine vinegar
  • 2 large shallots
  • 4 fresh thyme sprigs
  • 1 bay leaf
  • 1 ½ teaspoons sugar
  • 6 eggs
  • ½ cup olive oil
  • 4 fresh thyme sprigs plus

Combine vinegar, 1/2 cup water, shallots, thyme sprigs, cloves, bay leaf, salt, and sugar in medium saucepan; bring to boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer pickling mixture 15 minutes to allow flavors to blend. Remove mixture from heat and cool to room temperature. Pierce hard-boiled eggs...

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