Garlic Bread with Tomatoes and Mozzarella

A great dish for lunch, especially at this time of the year when tomatoes are plentiful and cheap at farmers' markets, and, if you live in Wisconsin, there is no shortage of any kind of cheese. If you are not happy with just garlic bread, try this dish.

Ingredients:

Slice(s) of bread

Garlic gloves

Salt

Extra olive oil

Slices of tomatoes

Mozzarella Cheese

Basil

Balsamic Glaze Vinegar. I buy my glaze from Target.(If you don't find balsamic glaze, make a reduction with a good balsamic. Recipe below.)

With and without balsamic glaze 

Toast the bread before hand, rub the garlic on the toast, sprinkle salt over the bread, add the sliced tomatoes, the mozzarella and then put it in the broiler until the cheese is melted, be careful not to burn the bread. When the cheese is melted take it from the broiler and drizzle balsamic glaze vinegar and sprinkle with basil.

To make a balsamic glaze reduction you are going to need:

4Tablespoons Balsamic Vinager

4 Tablespoons Sugar

2 Tablespoons Water

In a pan put the sugar on low until it becomes golden brown, add water until it starts boiling, then add the balsamic vinegar.

The balsamic vinegar compensates the acidity of the tomato

If you live in the Eau Claire area, you can make this dish year round. Just Local Food  Cooperative sells tomatoes from Spencer that are excellent for being a greenhouse tomato.

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This is a wonderful dish for vegetarians and non-vegetarians as well. It's a dish full of great and healthy ingredients. Garlic for your blood circulation, olive oil to increase your good cholesterol in the omega family, tomatoes for its antioxidant...and cheese for its content of calcium.