Gather your mise en place; get together all of the equipment needed for the recipe and gather your ingredients.

Cut the tomatoes into quarters, and remove the inner core. Chop them into strips about ½ centimetre thick, and then Food cut into small blocks or squares. Make sure they are all roughly the same size!dice them.

Finely chop the Kalamata olives.

Finely chop the garlic using a chef’s knife, or a rasp.

Finely chop the basil.

Measure the balsamic and olive oil.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees

Combine all ingredients in a bowl, and Adding flavour to a food to enhance its taste. It can be as simple as salt and pepper or herbs, spices vinegars and condimentsseason with a few cracks of black pepper, and salt to taste. If tomatoes are not ripe and sweet, add a pinch of sugar to brighten them up.

Cut baguette into 1 inch thick slices and lightly drizzle with olive oil. 

Bake sliced baguette in a 400 degree oven for 5 – 10 min.

Spoon tomato mixture onto toasted baguette slices, serve immediately.