Parmesan Tomatoes

1. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Using a blender or food processor, process the bread into neat breadcrumbs.
3. Combine the breadcrumbs, parmesan cheese, garlic, olive oil, parsley, basil, oregano powder, salt and pepper. Toss them until thoroughly mixed.
4. Now cut the tomatoes in halves. Place the sliced tomatoes in a baking dish.
5. Season with salt and pepper. Top them with breadcrumb mixture. Layer them with some more Parmesan cheese.
6. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until breadcrumbs are slightly browned. But make sure not to over bake them, otherwise the tomatoes will become too mushy.
7. Serve the yummy Parmesan tomatoes and enjoy!

Trivia

• Parmesan is named after the region of Parma in Italy where some of the types of cheeses are produced.
• Cheese is aged for different time periods to extract its taste. Parmesan cheese is aged for 1, 2 or 3 years.
• Once parmesan cheese is prepared, it is thoroughly inspected by the Safeguarding Consortium.
• Tomatoes originally came from Peru.
• They were first brought to Europe in the mid 1500s.
• The Italian word for tomato is “pomodoro” which means “golden apple”.
• There are over 10,000 varieties of tomatoes that come in different colors like purple, white, yellow, black and pink.

Every year the biggest tomato fight – La Tomatina happens in the Spanish town of Bunol which involves 150,000 tomatoes.