Summer Tomato Salad

It does not get much easier than this: Wash and cut slits into a tomato. I prefer the black-green ones but any tomato with rich flavour will do. Slice a soft cheese such as bocconcini into wedges and insert into tomato slits. Place on a plate with full flavoured greens like arugula and basil. Drizzle a little

Cold Cantaloupe Salad

When the summer is hot, as it is at the moment, I usually keep a melon seeded and cut into ready-to-eat-pieces in the Frigidaire. I arrived home from the gym hungry and craving something cold, and filling. There was not much cold in the house at the time but I did have cantaloupe and bocconcini.