Monday, April 20, 2009

A Bowl of Tomatoes...


A little treat for the vegetarians and carnivores alike is a tomato and fetta salad served in a tomato. It’s nothing complicated but is always a real eye catcher something for your dinner party guests to remember long after the evening has concluded. The best thing of all is it is simplicity all you need to do is find yourself some good sized vine ripened tomatoes, then simply slice off the top making sure you hang onto it. Then take a spoon and scoop out the inside of the tomato being careful to keep it in tact. Grab yourself some good ripe Roma tomatoes and cube them up, toss them into a bowl with some fresh basil, red wine vinegar, good olive oil, a generous amount of salt and pepper to taste and then last of all crumble some good fetta into the bowl as well (my personal choice is a Persian fetta a little more at the cash register but the flavour and texture are something special). Gently mix it altogether and spoon it into the tomato bowls you made earlier pop the top of the tomato on as your lid drizzle with a bit of your olive oil and send them out to your guests.

To satisfy 6:

6 vine ripened tomatoes
8 Roma Tomatoes
150g Fetta (Persian is preferable)
A good handful of fresh basil leaves torn
A good splash of red wine vinegar
The same of a good olive oil
Salt and pepper

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