This is one of my favorites! It is an easy and fucking tasty combination that can be used in versatile ways.
Take cherry tomatoes of different colors (because it looks pretty goddammit) and peeled garlic (I like to buy the bags so I don’t have to spend hours peeling garlic). I don’t mean one clove or even one head. You want about 1/3 as much garlic to your tomatoes. So for 2 small containers of cherry tomatoes it’s probably close to 3 heads of garlic.
Toss the garlic and tomatoes in olive oil and salt and put on a sheet pan. I use parchment paper because, like all good mothers, I don’t like to clean.
Put in oven at 3500 F until the tops of everything are light brown.
This dish just makes me happy. In part because it’s really hard to fuck up! The most likely way is to burn them, so…don’t. And it always tastes good.
You can eat them:
- Straight as a side.
- Put them in pasta with a little more oil and salt and parmesan.
- Put them on bread (focaccia, ciabatta, Baggett, whatever you fucking want) with mozzarella and basil as a meal (depending on how big a piece of bread you use.) Look on Instagram for my last use of this dish.
- Any fucking way you want.