Easy and delicious bruschetta recipe

We were given a bunch of bread and I had a ton of tomatoes that were about to go bad, so I decided to make some bruschetta! It turned out sooooo good and even the kids ate it! 

Mmmmmm... do you love bread as much as I do!? Anyway, this ended up not taking very long (although I should have timed it!) and it really did turn out REALLY good! I usually turn my extra tomatoes into salsa, but I'm so glad I tried something different with these! 

Ingredients: 

Ciabatta bread, sliced into 1" or smaller slices

Coconut oil or olive oil 

A bunch of tomatoes, diced

Salt to taste

Garlic to taste (I love garlic so I used a lot) 

Basil to taste (I used a TON!)

Mozzarella cheese (I used Babybel!)

optional marinara sauce for dipping

Alright, so start by putting a thin layer of coconut or olive oil on the bread and then toasting your slices for a few minutes until they're just starting to get brown. 

While your bread is toasting, dice up those tomatoes! I like them pretty small, but as long as they're "bite sized," you'll be fine. 

Using a paper towel, absorb as much of the moisture as you can (you can also cook it off, but it was like, 200 degrees outside already and I didn't want to heat the kitchen any further by using the stove).

Get your cheese out of the fridge so it's not cold when you're ready for it. 

I used these spices, but also a little fresh basil, which I chopped very finely. 

Apply spices to the tomatoes

I used a TON of basil.

Shoo the dogs away repeatedly... 

Alright, back to seriousness. Take the toasted bread out and spoon some of the tomato/spice mixture onto each slice of bread. 

Put back in for another round of toasting. 

While the bread is toasting, cut up the cheese. 

I used the same cutting board as I did for the tomatoes and the spices and then rolled the cheese in the leftover mixture on the cutting board. 

Put a few pieces of cheese on each slice of bread. 

Back into the toaster oven one last time for just a few minutes (to melt the cheese)

Top with more basil! 

YUM! 

I think I ate 4 of these as my dinner when I made them. 

I dipped them into a store-bought marinara sauce (SHOULD have made my own, but again, TOO HOT!) and they were amazing! 

Don't they look delicious! And since I only used the toaster oven, the whole house didn't get too hot for the rest of the day. 

Plus, I couldn't believe that the kids actually ate them! They enjoyed dunking them in the marinara sauce as well. 

By the way, I froze about half of these and we ate them a few days later. We popped them in the air fryer until the cheese was sizzly and they were perfectly fine. 

What do YOU usually do when you have too many tomatoes?