Baked.....

I posted a picture last week of these fabulous baked tomatoes I made but I forgot to post my recipe!

Well, recipe is a loose term here.  This is really more of a recounting of my desire to have something for dinner that covered many of the bases I felt I needed that night.  Garlic, basil, tomatoes and....cheese!  I had this great ball of homemade and very fresh mozzarella that I had been hoarding all week.  I needed to use use it as I knew we would be gone all weekend and it would go bad.  All I could think about was making Caprese salad over a nice french bread crostini.  That was the plan originally then as with most things I forgot that plan and went with another.  You know how it is when you are in a rush to get dinner together.

Anyhow, I thought I might grill these tomatoes and then top once they were hot, allowing the cheese to melt in to a happy (for me) oblivion.  Mother Nature had other plans and where as I will grill in almost any weather, I will not grill in pouring rain ;)

So I sliced my fat and juicy tomatoes into thick slices.

On the sliced I drizzles olive oil, gave a generous dusting of coarse salt and fresh cracked pepper and a little scoop of freshly minced garlic.

I baked at 300 just until the cheese was melted.

I had this over a slice of garlic baguette.  My husband put it over his pasta (recipe tomorrow)

We also had grilled veggies but I didn't want them in the picture ;)

This is simple & easy and by using fresh ingredients you can have a great little side.