Vegetable Recipes: Recipe for Tomato Salad with Black Pepper and Hard Cheese

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Tomato Salad with Black Pepper and Hard Cheese

From "What We Eat When we eat alone", a satisfying "alone" salad.

A scant pound of heirloom tomatoes, including some of the tiny "fruit" varieties
2 scallions, finely sliced, including a bit of the greens
2 teaspoons red wine vinegar or an herbal white vinegar
Salt and pepper
2 tablespoons of your best olive oil
Fresh herbs, such as basil, lovage leaves, or dill, torn or slivered
Hard cheese, such as aged goat, Gouda, or Asiago, shaved
Good crusty bread

Method

Slice the larger tomatoes into rounds and lay them on a dinner plate. Halve the smaller fruit tomatoes (cherry and plum varieties) and scatter them over the others. Combine the scallions in a small bowl with the vinegar and a few pinches of salt. Whisk in the olive oil. Pour the dressing over the tomatoes and grind plenty of pepper over all. Tear the herbs over the top and finish with thin shavings of hard cheese. Serve with good crusty bread.

Reprinted with permission from ©What We Eat When We Eat Alone, by Deborah Madison and Patrick McFarlin, published by Gibbs Smith click for book review

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