Cheesy cherry tomatoes

20 appetizers

Ingredients

QuantityIngredient
1pint(about 20) cherry tomatoes
8ouncesPkg cream cheese, softened
¼teaspoonCelery salt
Dash of onion powder
4slicesBacon; cooked and crumbled
Fresh parsley sprigs

Directions

Wash tomatoes thoroughly. Cut a thin slice from top of each tomato; carefully scoop out pulp, leaving the shells intact. Reserve pulp for other uses. Invert shells to drain for 30 minutes.

Combine next 4 ingredients in a mixing bowl; beat at low speed of an electric mixer until smooth. Spoon cream cheese mixture into tomato shells, and garnish each with parsley.

Gay Evaldi of New Jersey in June, 1983"Southern Living" Typos by Jeff Pruett

Submitted By JEFF PRUETT On 07-30-95