This meal sounds much fancier if you don’t know enough Spanish to translate it as tomatoes on toast.

Core Ingredients

• Bread

• Tomatoes

• Salt

• Olive oil or butter or margarine or mayonnaise

Preparation I: Sliced Tomatoes

• Toast bread.

• Spread butter, margarine, or mayonnaise on the toast—or drizzle olive oil over it.

• Add tomato slices.

• Sprinkle with salt.

• Optional: add a second slice of toast on top.

Preparation II: Grated Tomatoes

• Toast bread.

• Drizzle toast with olive oil.

• Grate the tomato with the cheese grater so you get a tomato mush. You want to do this over a plate, not over the kitchen counter.

• Put the tomato mush on the bread.

• Sprinkle with salt.

• If you’ve got dried oregano, sprinkle that on too.