With a topping of burst tomatoes, basil, and a balsamic glaze, this caprese ricotta toast is wonderful as a savory breakfast or lunch.
This ricotta toast is so hearty and flavorful. Just one slice of this toast is plenty, although I have been known to easily polish off two slices.
This Greek Salad is really simple but exceptionally tasty. Sometimes simple is better, especially in the summer.
Greek salad has such a fresh flavor. It is typically tomatoes, cucumber, feta cheese, and Kalamata olives drizzled with an olive oil based dressing. It can also include red onions and green bell peppers.
This tomato, garlic, and basil topped bruschetta is simple, light, fresh, and delicious. It makes a wonderful appetizer.
This bruschetta with a tomato, garlic, and basil topping is my "go-to" fresh summer appetizer. With its bright, concentrated tomato flavor, it's a fabulous nibble with cocktails.
This bread, besides being pretty darn stunning, is soft, garlicky, cheesy, and tasty. It will kind of remind you of the flavors of pizza in a soft bread.
This roasted tomato and pepper soup is perfect when you need something tasty, filling, and nutritious.
Paired with a grilled cheese sandwich on sourdough bread (I love how the cheese melts through the holes in the bread), this makes a wonderful lunch or a light dinner.
This shrimp in tomato and chile sauce is an orchestra of deeply delicious flavors.
This spicy shrimp dish is loaded with concentrated flavors of tomatoes that have been cooked down to their tomato-y essence, along with green chilies, garlic, coriander, cumin chile powder, allspice, cinnamon, cardamom, clove, mace, and nutmeg.
These puff pastry tomato and goat cheese pizzettes are little flavorful two-inch rounds of tasty deliciousness.
These little puff pastry tomato and goat cheese pizzettes are only about two inches across, are super light, and are wonderful as appetizers.
This fresh tomato pizza, with its easy to make crust, will make you swoon. The crust is crispy, airy, and flavorful, and the fresh tomatoes in the topping have a concentrated tomato flavor.
This pizza is similar to the no knead pizza dough that I used for
broccoli pizza,
onion pizza, and
zucchini pizza, but it has a lot more water. In fact, it's 89 percent hydration.
This tomato and fennel salad is lightly dressed in a mixture of olive oil, orange juice, and cider vinegar, and garnished with orange zest and fennel fronds.
