Mid week, we like to keep our meals on the light side, on both sides of the world.
Like this Cobb Salad - an American classic.
I don't know why we don't do this in Sydney - the ingredients are readily available, it is easy to prepare, looks and tastes great.
This version had cherry tomatoes from our garden and fresh local eggs, and the usual additions - lettuce, avocado, bacon and blue cheese.
Tomatoes have featured in each of our meals recently- we have been overgrown with cherry and roma tomatoes the last couple of weeks and this week finally the big ones came on.
Well timed - as we had seen a recipe for tomato tartin in last weekend's WSJ.
I regularly cook this upside down pie with apples - and was given a copper pan by M for Christmas years ago - in the hope that he would get it cooked more often.
The silky and richly decadent apples that have slowly cooked in butter and sugar on top of the stove and then topped with a buttery pastry and baked - is only served when apples, grown on our trees are in season, and when we have guests. Sorry M- special occasions only!
Seeing the recipe with tomatoes inspired me to pull out the pan and whip it up for dinner last night.
I wouldn't say it was a quick meal, but it is was quite easy.
Don't these sliced tomatoes look good in the pan -slow roasted romas fill in the gaps.
Layered with slow cooked onion (leftover from weekend pizzas) and goat cheese.
Topped with a sheet of store bought puff pastry and baked for 60 minutes.
The tartin is inverted onto a plate (so you can't see how puffy and golden brown the pastry was) but you can see how the tomatoes are glistening
And even though it was supposed to be an AFD - I insisted we have a glass of wine with such a gorgeous dish.
It was fantastic - all the flavours - sweet tomatoes, fennel, thyme and oregano, made for another delicious meal.
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