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Dinner · 35 min · 6 slices

Tomato pie skillet

Ripe tomatoes, a mayo-and-cheese top, stale bread as the crust. It sounds wrong and it is one of the best things in August.

The sheet · 6 slices · 35 min

easy

Why tonight. Ripe tomatoes, a mayo-and-cheese top, stale bread as the crust. It sounds wrong and it is one of the best things in August.

What it needs

Nothing confirmed on your shelf yet — this list is the whole ask.

  • tomato
  • cheddar
  • mayo
  • bread

Good if you have them, fine if you do not: basil.

Method

  1. Salt the tomato slices and drain them on a rack for thirty minutes. This is the one step that decides everything.
  2. An unsalted tomato pie is a soup in a crust and no amount of baking rescues it.
  3. Stale bread as the base, toasted first so it can take the moisture that still comes.
  4. Mayonnaise and cheddar mixed as the top, and bake until it is browned and bubbling. Basil at the table.

An educational plan from a curated corpus. Not a nutrition, allergen, or doneness guarantee.

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Why each of these is on the list

What the ingredients are actually doing

tomato
Sweet, sour and savory at once, which is why it holds up so many dishes with no meat in them.
cheddar
Sharpness plus melt. Aged cheddar tastes like more and melts like less, so a dish that wants both usually wants a mix — grate it, do not slice it, and take the pan off the heat before it goes in.
mayo
An emulsion, which means it is a delivery system for fat and acid at once.
bread
Structure, thickener, and the reason a lot of these dishes stretch.

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