Take six firm red tomatoes, wash and wipe them neatly, slice them in thin slices with a very sharp knife. Line a salad bowl with lettuce leaves, lay the sliced tomatoes in, sprinkle with salt and pepper, serve with French dressing.
I tried out the above recipe, using my own tomatoes that I grow in a wood planter. Here are some of the tomatoes ripening on the vine.
![Ripe red tomatoes on the vine](http://coldsaladrecipes.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tomatoes-growing-on-vine-for-salad-300x277.jpg)
Using some store bought lettuce, I broke up some lettuce leaves into pieces, and placed the in a glass bowl for the salad.
![Lettuce pieces in a glass salad bowl](http://coldsaladrecipes.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/lettuce-leaves-pieces-in-bowl-300x241.jpg)
Next I sliced up the tomatoes and put the tomato slices on top of the lettuce.
![tomato on lettuce](http://coldsaladrecipes.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tomato-slices-on-lettuce-300x229.jpg)
Finally I poured some French dressing from the grocery store onto my tomato salad. I skipped adding any salt or pepper. It still tasted good, and was a nice, and very easy and quick to prepare cold salad.
![French dressing on tomato and lettuce cold salad](http://coldsaladrecipes.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/tomato-salad-french-dressing-300x244.jpg)