anagramofbrat | "sun"-dried tomatoes!

Once again I made these with the intention of long term snackage but judging by all the drive-by grazing that's been happening in the half hour or so since these came out of the oven, I doubt they're going to last too long. XD

Anyway, they are wicked easy to make if you have a little time to babysit the oven. Small oblong tomatoes (grape or plum) tend to work best. Today was mostly grape tomatoes with one plum and a few sungold cherry ones thrown in for variety/pan filling purposes.

Set oven to lowest setting (200°F is fine).
Cut tomatoes lengthwise into quarters (or eighths if working with a rounder tomato) and space evenly on either a non-stick or a parchment papered cookie sheet.
Sprinkle with salt, basil, garlic powder and/or pepper to taste.
Pop into oven for at least two hours.
Check every hour, remove from oven when all tomatoes seem dry but not crispy. Bigger tomatoes will take longer, obviously, grape tomatoes will take about 2.5-3h.
Let cool. NOM VORACIOUSLY.

So anyway the crate of grape tomatoes went to a very good purpose. I still have sungolds leftover for drive-by nommage as well. Really it's been a weekend of eating delicious farmers market food - between cell23's experiment in margarita pizza (I thought it was delicious, he thinks he can do much better) last night, and the utterly tastegasmic queso veijo I picked up yesterday and nibbled on this morning... yeah, it's been something of an omnomnom kinda weekend.

In other news after three days of high humidity and ominous clouds, it's finally thunderstorming out there.

Despite the picture, it's been a very half-hearted storm so far - a couple of grumblings from the sky and the rain has only just now picked up from a drizzle. Storm needs to nut up, in my opinion, though preferably not later, since