Roasted Garlic & Cherry Tomatoes
They are small, beautiful, and perfectly round. They are sun kissed, thin-skinned and utterly juicy. They can be eaten like grapes and are a perfect addition to a green salad. So those were pretty much the two ways in which we were eating these beautiful tomatoes, a bumper crop in my friend’s veggie garden. She and I have bartered veggies from each other’s gardens, although hers is twice as big as mine – I got figs, sun-gold tomatoes, delicious cucumbers, basil and now spicy chilies (yes!) and I gave her some of my okra eggplant and earlier on some cilantro, lettuce.
The last time she gave me some of these, I had them unused in my fridge and she suggested this preparation to me. Thanks Fla! It was amazing!
Now this is a post for a special blogger friend, Radhika who is celebrating her birthday today. She has been appreciating recipes from my garden all through the summer and I thought it would be befitting to post something fresh for her.
I also take this opportunity to announce that I am joining Radhika and the stellar bunch of bloggers on their Avant Garde Cookies, Epicurean Voyage. I am thrilled and excited to be doing this with Radhika, a versatile and energetic woman who constantly organizes wonderful new ways of enhancing our culinary creativity and her own. Priya Sreeram, whom I’ve considered a soul sister from the get-go who writes from her heart and cooks that way too. Kavitha, a young lady who has impressed me as an enterprising “cookie” juggling a blog where she is so active and university, hats off to her! I am looking forward to getting to know my other cookies over the course of this voyage; Jay, Veena, Roshni & Anusha – First impressions however…
When I visited Anusha’s Blog, the picture of her Vegetable Fried Rice bowled me over – I would have liked that bowl all to myself!
The Tamarind Ginger Pickle that I saw when I visited Roshni’s blog had my tongue in a tickle for a lick of that delish pickle
The Eggless Double chocolate cookies on Veena’s blog seem like the perfect post dinner munch for me as I write this
Jayanthy’s blog is a visual treat with amazing pictures…
My voyage with the group begins soon…
Back to the recipe with homegrown deliciousness – but for the garlic all else was grown in my garden – The tomatoes are of course courtesy my pal.
Ingredients
- 1 lbs of Sun Gold Tomatoes washed
- A Handful of Red & Purple Cherry Tomatoes
- 3 small-medium red onions
- 2 pods of garlic
- Spices
- Rosemary & Oregano
- Ground Pepper
- Sea Salt
- Olive Oil Spray
Angel Hair pasta (as much as needed)
Method- Set the Oven at 350 degrees F
- Spray a baking pan with olive oil
- Layer with tomatoes
- Place garlic pods in the pan
- Chop the onions and find room for them as well on the pan
- Add fresh oregano & rosemary
- Bake for 45 minutes
- In the mean time, boil your pasta, drain over cold water.
- Drizzle a small quantity of olive oil along with some salt and toss
- Remove veggies from oven and serve over the pasta.
- Eat with gusto.
This is a perfect post for my blog event FAST FOOD not FAT FOOD guest-hosted this time by my sweet friend, Archana of The Mad Scientist's Kitchen - Do send you entries to her if you have a healthy recipe you've made -
Other ladies wishing Radhika a happy birthday with a virtual treat are Priya, Roshni, Kavi
A couple of links to visit
Priya: http://eq-myblog.blogspot.in/2012/09/chilled-nutty-choco-bites-virtual.html
Roshni: http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/baingan-bharta.html
Kavitha:http://foodomania.com/quick-birthday-chocolate-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-1431
Priya: http://eq-myblog.blogspot.in/2012/09/chilled-nutty-choco-bites-virtual.html
Roshni: http://arusuvai-kurippu.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/baingan-bharta.html
Kavitha:http://foodomania.com/quick-birthday-chocolate-cake/comment-page-1/#comment-1431
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