When I need to save a few minutes, sometimes I just throw the cut cherry tomatoes and other ingredients on the warm pasta directly just after it comes out of the water, toss it, and let it sit for about a minute to heat the tomatoes. It is not quite as good that way, but I get one less pot dirty.

It was actually this particular dish (and tomato salads) that caused me to invent the Slice-X so that I could slice all the cherry tomatoes faster. I’ll be launching the Slice-X on Kickstarter right after the holidays in case you’d like to support it. http://www.slice-x.co. It saves time on a dish like this, but half the reason I use it is because it is so fun/satisfying to cut a half dozen cherry tomatoes at once.