I am lucky to find myself in the presence of a Martha Stewart Living Magazine every month, and this month was no exception. This time though, was a little different. The cover affected me so much, with it’s color heirloom tomatoes, that after seeing it day in, and day out, I had to finally flip it over, so those beautiful, delicious looking summer gems would taunt me no longer.
I think it is arguably the best cover they’ve ever had on the magazine.
Photo From Martha Stewart Living
It made me CRAZY! I would find myself lusting after crusty artisan bread with tomatoes on it. So, here we are. It’s proof that the simple things are often the best things.
I strongly encourage you to seek out heirloom tomatoes for this! Get to your farmer’s market, I can almost guarantee they’ll have some good ones! If you don’t have a farmer’s market near you, grocery stores are starting to carry heirloom varieties. And hey, if you just can’t find the fresh heirlooms, this will be just as good with any type of tomato. I promise!
- 3-4 Heirloom Tomatoes, different colors, sliced about 1/8 – 1/4 inch thick
- 1 Clove Garlic
- 1-2 Tablespoons Butter
- 1 Loaf Artisan Bread (I used Sprouts Seedsational Artisan Bread)
- 1/4 Teaspoon Sea Salt
- 1/8 Teaspoon Freshly Ground Black Pepper
- Basil Leaves for garnish (optional)
- Turn on broiler.
- Cut the bread loaf in half lengthwise, so you have two long slices, placing one underneath the broiler until it is golden brown.
- Peel the garlic clove carefully, leaving the clove in-tact, and trimming off the root end.
- Rub the freshly toasted bread lightly with the garlic, as to not damage your lovely bread.
- Butter the bread, then carefully layer the tomatoes from green, to orange, to pink, to dark red.
- Sprinkle the tomatoes with the salt, pepper, and basil.
- Cut into wedges, and serve.
That is spectacular! So simple, so good. And your photography is gorgeous.
This is so beautiful! We just harvested our first tomatoes yesterday…now I have something to try. Thanks!
Thank you Lisa! I hope you love it as much as I did!
The Martha Stewart cover is just stunning! I saw it on the magazine rack at Walmart and I hadn’t received my copy in the mail yet. I was on the phone with MSL so fast, but I just needed to be patient. It arrived three days later. Family Circle has a similar cover, but the MSL picture…I just connected with it. No heirlooms here in southwest Oklahoma, sadly, but the farmer’s market has some beautiful non-heirlooms that I have been devouring. My favorite is on toasted sourdough and a thick slather of mayo.
Jan! I couldn’t stop drooling over it day after day, until I just couldn’t stand it any longer!
This was delicious, EVEN to a non-tomato lover like me!! BTW the new comment area is so much easier to see the words I type in, DIG it!
You like tomatoes, dear! You just really dislike crappy ones. 😉
I might have to do this but add cheese to the bread before putting it in the broiler. Like an open faced grilled cheese of magic.
MMmmmm Cheese!!! That sounds fab!
I loved that cover as well. It’s so beautiful, and I’m planning to make this tomato toast too.
I hope you enjoy, Megan! Summer is quickly coming to an end! *HUGE sad face!*