Jordan’s Tomate Farcie

“This is a comforting dish for me as it carries memories as rich as the flavours. My mum used to make it when I was a child. She’s Portuguese but we lived in France and she loved this dish. It was popularized by several French chefs and writers such as Alexandre-Balthazar-Laurent Grimod de La Reynière (long name, yes!) in 1803 in his book Almanach Des Gourmands. My mum made big batches, so when I came home from school as a teenager and she wasn’t in, I’d warm up a portion from the fr