Not quite Sun Dried Tomatoes

Now listen, I wouldn't want to steal anyone's thunder here. I'm not a foody blog, right? But I just wanted to share this recipe with you because you can eat as much of it as you like - just as it is - or you can use it when sun-dried tomatoes are called for in a recipe. If you keep them covered in the fridge you can keep picking at them for a week. This isn't even my recipe, I got it from a woman at Slimming but I shouldn't think she's copyrighted it. It's for everyone who can't open the fridge door without picking at SOMETHING!


You would only want to make it when you have a glut of little cherry tomatoes in your garden, or when they're selling them cheap at the market. Red ones, yellow ones, it doen't matter. Mix 'em up! The only criterion is that they're tasty.


Sorry, no photo because I forgot to take one!


Amanda's Not Quite Sun Dried Tomatoes

1 lb (or more) cherry tomatoes, halved

a good pinch of sea salt

a good pinch of demerara sugar

a good pinch of freshly ground black pepper

a good pinch of oregano (or mint or rosemary or thyme - what do you like?)

Fry Light Cooking spray



Pre-heat the oven as hot as it will go (just do it!)

Cover a large (mine's 12" x 12") baking tray with aluminium foil.

Spray well with Fry light


Arrange the halved tomatoes, cut side up and complete with skin and seeds, on the baking tray

Spray the tomatoes well with Fry Light

Sprinkle with salt, sugar, pepper and whatever herb takes your fancy. I used dried but you can use chopped fresh ones. Probably even better.


Note: SPRAY BEFORE YOU SPRINKLE or the spray blows the other stuff away!


Now, put them on a high shelf in the hot oven.

Time them for 5 MINUTES ONLY.


Now turn the oven off - DON'T OPEN THE DOOR, they'll be ok.


Go to bed leaving the tomatoes in the oven all night.


Next morning excavate tray from oven. The tomatoes will have dried ever so slightly round the edges, retaining their shape and becoming a little bit sticky just on the top. Eat one. You'll find they're tender and succulent.



Now I find I can't even make my usual litlle Angie mouse appear so you'll just have to believe this is from the real, genuine, authentic

ANGIE

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