This is really assembly rather than cooking, and something I had seen/heard about but I never realised how blissfully simple and delicious it was. I have been known to eat this for breakfast 7 days straight while on holiday in sunnier places, where the tomatoes are always juicy, but it is almost as good on a slightly humid morning in Surbiton. For those clever sausages growing tomatoes right now, this would be a worthy use. What ever you do, don't use those crappy, pale, tasteless tomatoes you buy in the supermarket. Buy from the supermarket by all means but splash out on the more pricey ones, the ones that are actually properly red. And even more importantly, never use cold tomatoes!!!! If you keep them in the fridge, let them warm up before using.
All that is involved is the toasting of as much
bread as you need, sour dough is brilliant for this, I would recommend something a bit interesting for this (the heavy dense but thinly sliced bread we buy on holiday in Portugal is perfect, but that doesn't really help). Rub each tasted
slice with the cut side of a halved clove of garlic. Top with
sliced tomato, drizzle with some extra virgin olive oil, and most importantly, sprinkle with
salt. That's it.
Munch too many slices and marvel at how you ever managed to live without this in your life. And also possibly repel passers by with garlic breath. But don't worry about that too much.
Ahhh was just talking about this in my blog! There is nothing like a ripe summer tomato, sweet and plump and juicy. And agree wholeheartedly about cheap/supermarket tomatoes, they're just not worth it. I do something really really similar with tomatoes when i want a quickie snack too, but I pop the tomatoes into the oven after the (sourdough!) bread's been toasted too so it gets a little bit roasted and warm. Argh so good.
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