Last night I had a double birthday party at my house. A friend of mine and I share a birthday (today). We had a small gathering at my place and one of the left over items were cherry tomatoes.
Today I decided to just relax, but I kept thinking about those cherry tomatoes and how I would use them before they went bad. So, I got dressed and hopped into the car. It is sunday after all and one of my favorite things to do is go to the farmer’s market and walk among the vendors before I make my purchases.
Normally, I stay away from the fresh bread vendors because while I am not on the low carb diet anymore I am trying not to have tons of bread products in my house (chips are an evil thing.. and this includes pita chips). But today, there is bruschetta on the menu and it craves french bread based in olive oil and rubbed with fresh garlic after it is taken out of the oven. I also picked up some fresh basil, yum. I think today is an Italian day.
After spending a few hours in my favorite shop (Bliss on Jay Street) and my friend Amy, I came home and got right back into my comfy pants. It is lunch time so I started to cut up the cherry tomatoes and sliced my french bread. I used this as my base recipe but I didn’t boil the tomatoes.
Once the tomatoes were cut up, I rubbed a garlic clove over the toasted bread and flipped it so that oil olive side was on top. Then I put the left over garlic (two cloves) crushed in with the tomatoes. Next came basil, and here is a link on how to chiffonade basil. Add some salt and better and drizzled in oil olive and balsamic vinegar and stir it all together.
It was so yummy! Sometimes I think we forget that the simplest recipes can sometimes be the best. The right paring of herbs and vegetables can make the most amazing punch to your taste buds.
willow 