• Ina Garten's tomato sandwich recipe was delicious and easy to make at home. • I especially loved the herby, salty basil mayo, which balanced out the juicy heirloom tomatoes. • I plan to put it on other sandwiches and use it as a dip — but next time, I'll include less salt.

Sometimes, I'll glance at a recipe's ingredients and just know, in my heart, that it's going to taste amazing. That's exactly how I felt the first time I laid eyes on the Barefoot Contessa's tomato sandwich recipe.

Traditionally, this kind of sandwich only has a few ingredients: two slices of bread, some tomatoes, mayonnaise, salt, and pepper. Ina Garten's recipe, however, kicks the sandwich up a notch with a mayo that has a large cast of flavors, including basil.

The basil mayo requires seven ingredients total:

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