Slice the bread to about 1 cm thickness, arrange on a tray with olive oil salt and pepper and bake at 200c for about 10 minutes or until nicely golden brown. While the croutons are baking slice up your tomatoes and season with salt and pepper.

Peel, deseed and slice the cucumber, mix olive oil, vinegar, mustard, chilli flakes and seasoning in a jar and give a vigorous shake. Pick some basil leaves layer them and roll into a cigar and slice with a sharp knife.

Combine cucumber and basil with the tomatoes which have been seasoned for around 5 minutes to start releasing excess water. Add as much dressing as you like

Remove croutons from oven and transfer onto a kitchen paper towel to absorb excess oil, while still warm combine with the salad and give a good toss.

You can leave the salad to sit for a minute or 2 for the bread to absorb the salad juices and dressing, this works well on a large platter for the family to share, either way there is me looking pleased and a final picture. These screen shots are taken from my youtube channel.