Recently I've discovered that roasted tomatoes are especially wonderful, adding a whole new dimension to the toasted cheese and tomato sandwiches I seem to always make for lunch. Topped with some torn fresh basil leaves, they make an el quicko (and el cheapo) lunch taste tres gourmet. Last night I had a little roasting festival with some tomatoes I found lazing about on the greengrocer's "specials" table. The recipe is simple:
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1/2 kg Roma tomatoes, sliced into sixths*
3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
2 teaspoons of dried herbs or 2 tablespoons of fresh chopped herbs
Salt
Preheat the oven to 160C.
Line a baking tray with Glad Bake or similar.
Pour the olive oil in a bowl, dip the tomato pieces in the oil and place them on the baking tray.
Sprinkle salt and herbs over the top.
Depending on your commitment or otherwise to a low fat diet, drizzle the olive oil from the bowl over the tomatoes.
Bake for 40 mins or thereabouts, depending on the oven and desired mushiness of the tomatoes.
Remove from oven and let cool on the baking tray.
Transfer to an airtight container, drizzle with a little more oil and store in the fridge.
* Sixths are real easy. Cut each tomato in half . Cut each half tomato into three pieces.
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What amazed me even more than the yum factor is the reaction of my colleagues when I opened my tub of roasted tomato goodness:
Them (peering into container): "Where did you buy those?"
Me (assembling sandwich): "I didn't, I made them."
Them (still peering): "When?"
Me (looking somewhat bemused): "Last night - really easy to do."
Them (now tasting): "Wow, they're really good!"
Me (tub in hand): "Take some for lunch. I can do more tonight."
Colleague Angela took up the offer and created this (which, much to her amusement, I duly photographed):
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