Quick! Pan-Roasted Tomatoes on Toast

Toast -- It's Not Just For Breakfast!

So often folks think they don’t have time to cook, or they think they don’t have the skills or the ingredients.  This meal is as simple as you can get, and it requires very few ingredients.  You can add more to it, but only if you want to and if you have the stuff.  Even though you may think of toast as breakfast food, this is a savory meal that will work great for a fast-food supper!

This is a meal that you can put in your mouth in 5 minutes!  

You Will Need

black skillet

fresh tomatoes

whole wheat bread

salt, pepper, garlic powder

optional - hot pepper flakes

Put a black skillet on the stove at medium high heat.  While it heats, cut the tomatoes into slices about 1/4 - 1/2 inch thick.  

(About the tomatoes — Use whatever you have coming out of your garden or whatever you can get your hands on.  Right now for this dish, I like to use Roma tomatoes (a paste type of tomato) because they don’t have as much water content.  But you can use cherry tomatoes and just slice them quickly in half or just regular eatin’ tomatoes.  If it’s a big slicing tomato, then you may want to cut it in half lengthwise first and then cut into slices.)

Put the toast in the toaster.

Add a little olive oil to the pan and then put in the tomatoes in one layer.  Sprinkle generously with salt, pepper, and garlic powder.  If your skillet is hot enough, they tomatoes will brown on one side in just a couple of minutes.  Flip them over and season the other side.  In about a  minute or two, they will be ready to come out.  Put them straight onto the toast that is already waiting on your plate.  That’s it!  

Additions:

I like to add some sharp cheddar cheese to the top.  Slice it while the tomatoes are cooking so you can put it straight on top.  The heat will melt the cheese a little.  

You can also fry an egg and put on top if you would like.  If you choose to go this route, then turn the skillet all the way down and cook your eggs in the same pan.  

You can add a little of Missy's Special Herb Mixtrue to the tomatoes when they’re almost ready.