OVEN ROASTED TOMATOES

This recipe is ridiculously easy.  These tomatoes can be made in advance, refrigerated, and then reheated.  I serve them with fish, chicken, and pasta.  You can also make bruschetta with them – just toast sliced Italian bread, brush olive oil on each slice, and place these tomatoes on top – warm in oven before serving.  Delish!

10 plum tomatoes

2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil

1 teaspoon sugar (could delete if you like)

1 teaspooon red wine vinegar

Handful of fresh thyme or marjoram

Kosher salt

Fresh ground pepper

Preheat oven 250 degrees.

Line a baking sheet with parchment paper (if you don’t have any use tin foil).

After cleaning your tomatoes, cut in ½ or if they are big in quarters.

Toss tomatoes in a bowl with olive oil, sugar, vinegar, herbs and salt and pepper.

Place on baking sheet cut side up.

Roast for 2 hours until tomatoes collapse but aren’t too dry.

Let cool and refrigerate if not using immediately.

OLIVE OIL POACHED COD

Had my Women's Round Table Fall dinner this week and served Olive Oil Poached Cod, Roasted Tomatoes with Fresh Marjoram, Buttered Green Beans, and Sweet Potato Grits.  Served with delicious Rosemary Focaccia and really high quality extra virgin olive oil - what a feast!

Photo isn't great but it tasted good...

OLIVE OIL POACHED COD

Serves 4

This is my new and favorite way to make cod.  It’s easy, super moist, and guests love it.

If I am making larger quantities like for more than 4 people and up to say 3 lbs. of cod fish I then bake it in a lasagna dish (9”x13”) just slightly cover fish with olive oil, cover tightly with tin foil and bake in 350 degree oven for approximately 20 minutes until flaky.

Kosher Salt

1 ½ cups extra virgin olive oil

4 4oz. cod fillets of equal thickness

Fresh ground pepper

Lemon wedges

Salt the cod generously and allow to stand for at least 5 or up to 20 minutes.

In a nonstick pan, heat olive oil over medium heat until just warm.

Reduce heat to low, slide cod into olive oil, cover the pan tightly and cook until cod begins to flake, around 6 to 8 minutes.

Place cod fillets on individual plates, pepper to taste, add a lemon slice.