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It’s stilltomato season, and I am rejoicing. InNew Orleans, where I have a home, they arrive early with locally special Creole tomatoes coming sometime in June. Creole tomatoes are medium to large, red, vine-ripened tomatoes grown in and around the parishes of the city, pulling their particular flavor from the rich, fertile soil of the Mississippi River Delta.
There are many ways to prepare a summer tomato salad. My maternal grandmother used to simply sprinkle her sliced tomatoes with a pinch of sugar and top them with torn mint leaves. For years, I was partial to a light vinaigrette and a chiffonade offresh basil. Then I visited my good friend Maryse Pochot in Guadeloupe, a butterfly-shaped, French-speaking island in the Caribbean. Maryse is a native of the island, and I have had many culinary adventures with her over the years. It was during a visit to her home that my tomato salad tastes changed. I learned from Maryse how to make a tomato salad topped with freshly mincedraw garlic. It is not for those with delicate sensibilities—in Guadeloupe they don’t shy away from garlic, they rejoice in it.
To understand my love of this salad, you need to know that I grew up in a house where garlic, fresh or powdered, was never eaten. I discovered garlic late in life when I was a student in France, and it was love at first taste. Now, I am a serious partisan of the stinking weed. The salad is a very simple one: fresh, ripe tomatoes sliced medium-thick, arranged on a platter and topped with a drizzle ofolive oiland a very goodbalsamic vinegar, and one clove (or two, if you’re living dangerously) of freshly minced raw garlic sprinkled on the top. Serve with crusty French bread for sopping up the tomato juices. That’s it. But it means summer to me, and if you try it and like it, it may begin to mean summer to you too.
Jillian Atkinson
Cook Mode(Keep screen awake)Ingredients1 ½poundssummer-ripe tomatoes (about 4 medium), sliced 1/2-inch thick1cloves garlic2teaspoonsextra-virgin olive oil1teaspoonbalsamic vinegar4thick slicescrusty French bread
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Ingredients
1 ½poundssummer-ripe tomatoes (about 4 medium), sliced 1/2-inch thick
1cloves garlic
2teaspoonsextra-virgin olive oil
1teaspoonbalsamic vinegar
4thick slicescrusty French bread
DirectionsArrange tomato slices on a serving platter, slightly overlapping the slices to maximize the exposed surface area. Slice garlic clove(s) in half lengthwise; pluck out and discard any bitter green inner stem from each half. Finely mince the garlic.Drizzle the tomatoes with oil and vinegar. Sprinkle with the garlic. Serve the tomato salad with bread.Originally appeared: EatingWell.com, August 2022
Directions
Arrange tomato slices on a serving platter, slightly overlapping the slices to maximize the exposed surface area. Slice garlic clove(s) in half lengthwise; pluck out and discard any bitter green inner stem from each half. Finely mince the garlic.Drizzle the tomatoes with oil and vinegar. Sprinkle with the garlic. Serve the tomato salad with bread.
Arrange tomato slices on a serving platter, slightly overlapping the slices to maximize the exposed surface area. Slice garlic clove(s) in half lengthwise; pluck out and discard any bitter green inner stem from each half. Finely mince the garlic.
Drizzle the tomatoes with oil and vinegar. Sprinkle with the garlic. Serve the tomato salad with bread.
Originally appeared: EatingWell.com, August 2022
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Nutrition Facts(per serving)164Calories3gFat30gCarbs6gProtein
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