About Recipe

Salads with a lot of different components can work well, but those with few ingredients can be just as good.  This tomato and anchovy salad really just has two key ingredients but tastes amazing.  Plum tomatoes cut in half and anchovies.  These are two very different foods that work so well together.  Anchovies pack so much punch for such a tiny fish.  For years I had only come across them atop pizzas, as my dad liked to order them on his half.  If one crossed over onto my side of the pizza I was very upset as I thought they were far too salty and tainted the taste of anything else.  In my early twenties I gave them another shot and did a complete 180 on them.  I soon opted to add them into my Caesar salads and a few other meals when out and about at restaurants.  Bringing them into my own dishes has been a fun adventure too, and since I usually keep salt and sodium amounts down in my diet I don’t at all mind eating anchovies every now and then.   While over in Italy we had fresh anchovies from the Mediterranean Sea on our pizzas and …