Roasted Cherry Tomatoes

A "one vegetable" side dish that can easily be cooked while you are making the mains.

1. Wash one punnet of cherry tomatoes. Drain.
2. Shape a piece of foil into a shallow dish.
(Or you can use an aluminium tray, baking dish or glass dish.)
3. Put the tomatoes into the dish.
4. Drizzle 1 teaspoon of extra virgin olive oil over the tomatoes.
5. Season with a little black pepper.
6. Sprinkle on some herbs if you have any - thyme, oregano, rosemary.
7. Bake in a toaster oven or in the fish grill for about 5 minutes.
8. Finished!

They will be very sweet. If you want to, you can season them with salt, but I never do.

Alternative ideas:
1. Add a few pieces of Japanese negi leek. Just the green part will give a nice flavor and fragrance.
2. Roast some garlic the same way, and add it to the tomatoes.
3. Don't use the oil, but put chopped bacon on the top.

How to eat them:
1. Simply - just as a side vegetable.
2. As a topping sauce - mash them a little and put them on top of sauteed chicken.
3. As a pasta sauce - put them in a pan, mash them, and toss with pasta.
4. On toast - mash a little and eat on French bread toast. Just tomatoes or with anchovies.
5. As pizza topping.

Salmon parcels

One of the easiest ways to cook fish is in a foil parcel.

1. Tear a piece of foil about 30cm long. (Longer is better than shorter.)
2. Put a little olive oil in the middle of the foil and wipe it around with your finger.
3. Put a boneless salmon fillet or white fish fillet in the middle of the foil.
4. Top with some sliced or shredded mushrooms. In this case, maitake.
5. Top with very thinly sliced white onion.
6. Wrap up the foil parcel, and close the ends.
7. Bake in a toaster oven, regular oven or under the fish grill for about 8 minutes.
8. Leave to rest for 2 minutes.
9. Be careful of the steam when you open it.

NOTES:
1. If you don't want to use foil, you can use a Pyrex dish with a lid.
2. The olive oil will stop the fish from sticking. Wiping the oil around with your finger is OK! If you use a brush, you'll have to wash it. Mother Nature gave you fingers, so use them ;)
7. This recipe is good because you can use the toaster oven or grill while you are cooking vegetables on the top of your cooker. You can put the packages in there and forget about them.

This dish is not good cold. But you can cook plain salmon in this way and add it to your lunch box, flake it for rice balls, etc.

You can also prepare the parcels in the morning and then cook them at night.

Small chicken fillets (sasami chicken) is okay cooked like this.