Pan Con Tomate: One of Life's Simple Pleasures

Get ready to fall in love with five ingredients, bread, tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, and salt. This bread is an excellent example of how the most simple ingredients can create one of the most enjoyable things to eat.

The Ingredients:

1. Loaf of Italian Bread, or any bread you love. Cut in half lengthwise and then sliced into 8 wedges.

2. 3 Ripe Tomatoes, grated on the large side of a box grater.

3. Sea Salt, nice big pinch.

4. 2 Cloves Garlic, peeled and left whole

5. 1/4 Cup Olive Oil, plus more to garnish

The Method:

• Stir in a good pinch of sea salt into the grated tomatoes. Set aside.

• Heat a large skillet over medium high heat. Add in half the olive oil. Once the oil simmers, place 4 wedges of bread cut side down into the skillet and toast the bread until golden brown. Remove the bread from the skillet and place on a serving dish. Repeat with the remaining wedges of bread.

• Rub the warm toasted bread with the cloves of garlic.

• Spoon the grated tomatoes onto the bread and spread with the back of the spoon.

• Drizzle with a little more olive oil.

Enjoy! xx