When I was younger, we used to travel a lot with my parent's friends. I judge the success of these holidays by their position what I call the SCORCHED SCALE. This scale represents how bad my sunburn was on that particular holiday and I vividly remember one summer spent in Portugal as the worst sunburn/holiday of my life.
Imagine the scene- a usually pasty English teenager, whose skin is practically melting off her bones, sits under a frayed parasol. A pile of books next to her, she is covered in factor 50 sunblock. Having only just recovered from the trauma of her slightly mad Aunt sploshing milk all over her the night before in a misguided bid to sooth the pain of her sunburned skin, she approaches her uncle. He is teaching his son how to play top trumps, a pipe hanging out of his mouth. He raises his eyes to the girl and before she can say a word he announces- "You can't play top trumps.", "Why?", "Because you're a girl."
I did honestly think he was joking.
Apparently not. This did not make me particularly happy, but it did distract me from my lobster skin.
Later on, that same uncle gave me this recipe. Partly as an apology perhaps, or maybe he was just trying to tell me that my place was in the kitchen! I'm sure it's not an original recipe but every time I eat it I think about him, with his pipe hanging out of his mouth.
The Abel & Cole box came this morning and it contained the most juicy, delicious tomatoes I have ever eaten. I decided to recreate the breakfast my uncle taught me and I have renamed it "Fascist Toast".
You will need:
- 2 slices danish white bread.
- 2 medium tomatoes
- 1 clove of garlic
- Some really nice butter
- Olive oil
- Thyme
- S&P
Toast the bread on both sides. Butter. Peel the garlic and rub it all over the yummy buttery toast. I tend to use up about half of the clove for both pieces as I like mine nice and garlicy ( could quite happily eat it like this!) Slice the tomatoes and put them on top of that delicious
buttery goo. Add a tiny splash of olive oil, salt, pepper and some thyme. I used thyme because I had some rather sad looking fresh thyme left over from Sunday, but really you could use basil, oregano or just leave the herbs out. Grill until the tomatoes are nice and soft ( or until the bread looks like it's going to burn!). Eat large mouthfuls whilst playing the Top Trumps game of your choice whilst drinking peppermint tea.
I now have a rather large collection of Top Trumps and they get played a lot by my niece when she is visiting. I'm sure my uncle would be very proud.
