Tomatoes we made last night, but different

Last night my Yeti wife and I had some normal human types over for dinner. I shaved so as not to scare them too much, but the snowdogs were abominable as usual and backed our guests into a corner occasionally. As usual, all they did was drool on them, but that can be scary by itself. There was an appetizer that we made that turned out OK, but I think I have a better version that I'm posting here now. They were cherry stuffed tomatoes and were quite easy. The hardest part was trying to move them to a serving dish after they were made and not have them end up on the floor. Those tomatoes are sure slippery in Yeti hands. We only had 2 losses.

Cherry tomatoes stuffed with dill and feta (you can replace the dill with basil and the feta with fresh mozzarella chopped into small cubes if you want. But I think this version is better.)

18 cherry tomatoes
4 ounces of good plain feta. I like Athenos
3 tablespoons of dried dill, or 1/4 cup of fresh dill, chopped fine
rind of 1/2 lemon
2 tablespoons of olive oil
salt
pepper

Crumble the feta into a medium bowl. Add the dill, lemon rind, olive oil, a small pinch of salt, and about 1/4 teaspoon of pepper. Stir through and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.

Cut the cherry tomatoes in half through the stem. Using a melon baller, scoop out the insides carefully so as not to damage the outside of the tomato. Lightly sprinkle the inside of the tomatoes with salt and turn them cut side down on a paper towel or tea towel to drain out their water for at least 15 minutes or as long as 30.

After the tomatoes are drained, place about a human thumb full of filling in each tomato half. Sprinkle with extra ground pepper and dill if desired and serve.

Makes 36 tomato halves as long as you don't drop any on the floor like I did. The snowdogs didn't get any though as they don't get any food but their own snowdog food.