this week's Resolution Recipe (an ill-timed post)

[madbaker]

For those in the studio audience what have not been following along for the past year, I made a Non-Year's Resolution. Once per week, I would cook a recipe that I hadn't tried before. This would hopefully expand my usual repertoire, and help justify my large collection of cookbooks. (I've actually dumped a couple since, where I didn't like the recipes or they were too much of a pain to justify.)

So, without further ado, Baked Tomatoes -
2-4 largeish tomatoes, sliced 1/2" thick
2 green onions, chopped
several cloves garlic (to taste), minced
pinch salt & pepper
1 T grated Parmesan
shredded fresh basil or spinach
1 tsp chopped fresh oregano

Arrange tomato slices in a lightly greased baking tray. Sprinkle with green onions, garlic, salt & pepper. Bake at 350 for 10 minutes. Remove from oven and top with cheese, basil or spinach, and oregano. Serve warm.

What worked: This was extremely quick and easy. Healthy, too. Oh, and quite tasty. It was a very nice dinner using fresh, organic tomatoes, for a warm summer evening. You know, the kind of evening we normally have in June. When it's not raining.

What didn't: The cheese would have been better melted; I might bake it for 5 minutes.

Will I make it again? Probably. Especially when our home-grown tomatoes start producing. I made this with lamb's quarters (also known as fat hen), which is a spinach ancestor. I baked it for the ten minutes as it makes your teeth fuzzy when raw. Next time I'll try it with raw basil, which I think will work equally as well - just differently.

Comments

[loup_noir]

Hmmm, I'll bet this would be yummy if you layered the greens with some more cheese and popped the whole thing into the oven (like you mentioned) for at least five minutes or so. Tim might eat spinach if it had enough cheese on it.

Almost time to grill lunch - since it's finally stopped raining! Now, it's just drizzling. Almost dry for these parts.