I'm aflood with cherry tomatoes from my mom. My brown thumb does not come from her. While I struggle to keep plants alive, she is constantly finding that her compost bin is teeming with baby tomato, pepper, and cantaloupe plants. She laughed at my attempt to grow an avocado tree from a seed pierced with toothpicks and suspended in a glass of water. She just tosses seeds in her compost heap and--lo and behold--they sprout!

These slow roasted tomatoes are deliciously intense, like sun-dried tomatoes but milder and thus nicer. Eat them straight or add them to a dish for an intensely sweet tomato flavor.