Panzanella (Italian tomato & bread salad)

This traditional Italian salad calls for the juiciest ripest tomatoes. So if you don't have them, don't make Panzanella, make something else!

Panzanella With Artichokes, Black Olives, and Capers

As we move into the heart of summer and plump, juicy tomatoes begin to ripen on the vine, I start to crave panzanella. The simple, rustic salad from central Italy is made with stale bread and ripe tomatoes, epitomizing the classic Italian tradition of using leftover ingredients to create an amazing dish.

Grilled Panzanella Salad

Charred late-summer vegetables and juicy, ripe tomatoes are tossed with a vinaigrette and hunks of grilled day-old bread, which soaks up all the fabulous juices.

French in a Flash: Niçoise Panzanella Bread Salad

Salade Niçoise is iconic, as is the Pan Bagnat which is just a Salade Niçoise sandwich. This is somewhere in the middle: a bread salad full of all the flavors that make a Salade Niçoise a Salade Niçoise: cherry tomatoes, tender blanched haricots verts, anchovies, garlic, lemon, olive oil, thyme, basil, and the best part, albacore in olive oil.

Grilled Chicken Panzanella

Grilled chicken turns this summertime salad into a main course. Toasting the bread on the grill lets it sop up all of the juice from those farm fresh tomatoes without getting too mushy.

Pan con Tomate (Spanish-Style Grilled Bread With Tomato)

Pan con tomate has five ingredients—bread, tomato, olive oil, garlic, and salt. Make this perfect end-of-summer dish when local tomatoes are ripe and abundant.

Summer Fruit Panzanella

In this breakfast version of panzanella, croissants are toasted with cinnamon sugar and combined with a variety of fresh summer fruit.

Cherry Tomato, Green Bean, and Wax Bean Salad with Herbed Bread Crumbs from 'Kitchen Garden Cookbook'

Fresh tomato salads are, in my opinion, one of the greatest joys of summer eating. They're even better when you can use tomatoes you've picked yourself. In her new Kitchen Garden Cookbook, Jeanne Kelley pairs this staple of a summer garden with snappy green beans and pale yellow wax beans for a crunchy, colorful twist. A generous shower of herbed bread crumbs adds more texture to the salad, turning it into a dish akin to a light panzanella.

My favourite Tomato Salad

The secret to my best tomato salad lies not in using costly nor an extensive list of ingredients, but in how it's constructed. Rather than shaking up a dressing, thick wedges of tomato are sprinkled

Pan con Tomate (Spanish Tomato Bread)

Pan con tomate (pa amb tomàquet in Catalan) is an easy Spanish tomato bread, perfect for tapas and snacking, and only requires 5 ingredients.