Goat Cheese and Oven-dried Cherry Tomato Crostini

Pretty! Colorful! Easy!

Directions

Spread each crostini with a bit of goat cheese. Top each with 2 roasted cherry tomatoes. Sprinkle chopped fresh herbs over each (parsley, basil, rosemary- whatever you have on hand) Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Drizzle with a tiny amount of balsamic vinegar. Serve.

Yield:	24 pieces

What's Needed:

24 crostini
8 ounces goat cheese, at room temperature
48 roasted cherry tomato halves (click here to learn how)
Chopped fresh herbs
Salt and pepper
Balsamic vinegar for drizzling

Recipe brought
to you by Amy Tobin

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