Tomatoes à la Provençale

Simple and homey, this traditional recipe from Provence pairs perfectly with a grilled piece of meat or fish in the summer months, when you have an abundance of tomatoes in your garden or, like us, you just can’t help buying up half the stand at your local farmers’ market. (Some people don’t have much self-control in the shoe-buying department. We buy produce.) If you have little bits of hard cheeses like Parmesan lying around—we call them “cheese nubbins”—cut them into pea-size bits and st