MARINATED CHERRY TOMATOES

MARINATED CHERRY TOMATOES

Put your cherry tomatoes in a bowl.  Add boiling water to cover them from a kettle and leave 20 seconds. Pour off the hot water and add cold tap water.  The skins will split and be ready to pop off the tomatoes by barely squeezing/pinching them between your thumb and fingers.  If the skin of 1 or 2 are not split, pierce the skins with a tip of a paring knife and coax the skin off. Refrigerate until ready to use.

THE GOOD PART:

1 teaspoon salt

1/4 teaspoon pepper

1/2 teaspoon thyme

1/4 cup chopped parsley

1/4 cup chopped chives

2/3 cup oil

1/4 cup tarragon vinegar

1 pint cherry tomatoes (peeled)

Combine all ingredients but tomatoes.  Pour over peeled cherry tomatoes.  Marinate overnight in a quart jar in the refrigerator.  Serves 4-6.