The day before yesterday I was in heaven...food heaven, that is. One of my favorite tastes of summer is my first ripe tomato from the garden. Finding those vine-ripened beauties is almost like discovering gold at the end of the rainbow. My tradition for the last 20-plus years has been to take my treasure into the kitchen, slice it and savor the smell, spread a thin layer of butter on bread (this is not for you no-carb eaters!) pile on the tomato, generously pepper it and sprinkle with just a dash of salt. That first bite takes me to a place I'll return to again and again over the next few weeks. Fresh tomatoes in salads, in salsa, on hamburgers, with some bacon and lettuce on toast, plain as a side dish for dinner. Life just doesn't get much better than this...unless it's that fresh cucumber that is not quite ripe enough to pick yet! Once winter comes and the fresh tomatoes are gone, I'll go back into fresh tomato withdrawls until my vine-ripened beauties magically appear again when the summer is almost done, and fall is just around the corner.
Friday, August 22, 2008
The best taste of summer...
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Nothing beats a good garden tomato with salt and pepper. I envy yours! I tried to grow a tomato plant once. It bore one teensy tiny red tomato which I sliced, sprinkled with salt and pepper, and savored. All 2 bites.
I am with you on that one! Our Bishop has tomatoes and has kindly been sharing them with me this summer! (we have squirrels that eat our veggies, so we don't bother planting them anymore, since our cat then eats the squirrels - yuck!) Our Bishop loves our peaches, nectarines, cherries and is happy to share!
Yum! My tomatoes are refusing to turn red this year...I'm dying for a BLT...fresh salsa...all I've gotten so far is one sad tiny little cherry tomato :(
Enjoy!
oh how I miss fresh tomatoes out of the garden. a garden is just not working for us here. we don't know what it going on. i'm posting a link to a good recipe for tomatoes on my blog. you'll have to check it out. it's tastey!
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