Reviewed: Oct. 26, 2011

Oh, yum! These powerful flavors are still exploding in my mouth. I didn’t have yellow tomatoes, but oh well...it was still amazing. Also, I used a tiny bit of finely chopped white onion instead of green onion.

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Mmmorgan

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Arlington, Texas, USA

Living In: Roanoke, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Sep. 4, 2011

I loved this simple salad. I did not have yellow pear tomatoes so I omitted it. I made slight change by adding 2 TBS of extra virgin olive oil and about 1tsp of red pepper flakes and I squeezed 1/2 a lemon. Very refreshing!

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patty

Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: San Antonio, Texas, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 17, 2011

This is a wonderful, fresh salad that's perfect for those warm summer months when tomatoes from the garden are so abundant. It's not only vibrant in color but also in taste. I did leave out the cilantro as a personal preference and did NOT refridgerate this. I did however drizzle a little olive oil over top and added just a splash of balsamic vinegar (any nice vinegar would do) which I think made a huge difference.

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Jillian

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Cooking Level: Expert

Living In: Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 11, 2011

I added a mix of extra virgin olive oil and balsamic to this salad. Really good. I think the olive oil and balsamic really made this extra tasty. Quick and easy--no leftovers.

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Sarah Jo

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Seattle, Washington, USA

Living In: Belle Vernon, Pennsylvania, USA

Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2011

You should add some olive oil (2-3 tbsp). It's magic!

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Gloria

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Home Town: Athens, Attica, Greece

Reviewed: Aug. 4, 2011

Tomatoes have their best flavour when they are not refrigerated. I actually will not eat fresh tomatoes if they have been refrigerated. I think just letting the flavours mingle at room temp would be tastier.

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mammalyon

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Living In: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Reviewed: Nov. 29, 2010

The trick to this recipe is to use extremely ripe tomatoes. Save the juice when slicing the tomatoes and add the pepper, red pepper and salt to taste as this will become the marinade, otherwise the salad is just to dry to stand on it's own. As written this recipe is completely overwhelmed by the basil, onions and cilantro. Herbs would be much better reduced by half so the flavor of the tomatoes is not "lost". With changes, good use of summer produce.... Ummm!

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Crystal S

Cooking Level: Expert

Home Town: Bakersfield, California, USA

Living In: Roseville, California, USA

Reviewed: Oct. 9, 2010

I'm leaning towards agreeing the pulleyheather (and SHarris's hubby) on this one. I love tomatoes, and I like a tomato salad with just herb and either no dressing or a bit of oil or vinegar. I did not like this at all. It just was like eating a bunch of leaves - the basil and cilantro were way overwhelming and all I tasted. I tried adding some balsamic vinegar as heather did, but that just didn't do it. I find it interesting looking at the pics that there seems to be little of the green stuff, so I have to wonder what's going on there. My pic had way more green as well and did not look good. (Although I did have the yellow tomatoes so it was colorful.) No, I didn't measure wrong, and I even looked up online what a dry pint would be (since I didn't use store-bought), which is just a hair over a liquid pint -- maybe many folks are tossing in way more than the 2 pints called for.

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Erimess

Cooking Level: Intermediate

Reviewed: Sep. 6, 2010

I love tomatoes and this was a fresh and healthy way to eat them! My husband was amazed that there wasn't any oil or dressing on it! The only subs I made were using plain chopped onions instead of green onions (I was out) and the basil and cilantro are some I buy in a tube (So you can reduce the amounts a bit). It was excellent!!

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