Delicious Tomato Salad

On Sunday evening I had some film friends over to N.'s for dinner. I made Weight Watcher's tofu skewers, Iron Chef Challenger Kobayashi Katsuyo's tomato salad, and Sam's Cook's Illustrated berry pie. I did pretty well with the pie, although the crust went a bit funny, but it still tasted great and floored everyone. It's probably the most difficult thing I've ever made, despite how the recipe goes on and on about wanting to "keep things simple!" The chef was clearly lying - there's a part where you're almost making jelly.

Anyway, the Kobayashi Katsuyo (she won the New Potato Battle!) tomato salad recipe was super-easy and extra tasty, and only 60 calories, that's just 1 point, per serving!

3-4 ripe tomatoes
1/4 of an onion
1 tablespoon rice vinegar
1 tablespoon honey

The hardest part is skinning the tomatoes - what you do is stick a fork in the top of each tomato and plunge it into boiling water for about 6 seconds. Then you can dip it into cold water, and then the skin peels right off.

Next you chop the onion and the tomatoes. Mix the honey and rice vinegar in a separate bowl, then drizzle it over the tomatoes.

Since I was using pretty big tomatoes, I doubled the dressing (2 tablespoons each) and I used half of an onion. I also drained some of the juice off the tomatoes before serving.

Oh, it's supposed to make 3-4 servings, but I served 6 people with some leftover. It's a really nice cold dish for summer.

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July 21, 2003 04:07 PM, Sam said:

Isn't cooking exciting??

July 21, 2003 04:10 PM, Maggie said:

Instead of sticking a fork in the tomato, just put it on a chopping board over a sink and pour a bit of hot water over it. Then you can peel them very easily, no problem.

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