Isn’t it wonderful to be eating from our gardens? There is nothing quite like plucking a fresh tomato off the bush and eating it right there in the garden.
And then you walk into the grocery, and what do you see? Those same old perfect looking, and utterly tasteless, things they call tomatoes. About all they offer is color for your salads.
We have, I think, 13 varieties of tomatoes this year. Yellows, greens, multicolored, blacks, cherry, grape, and monster heirlooms. Each one with a different flavor. Some of the most interesting are the old varieties that came out of Russia and the former East Bloc countries. A lot of them are not uniform and pretty, and they don’t ship, so you will never find them in a regular market, but taste? Oh, how sweet they are.
Here is a simple recipe that is even better if the tomato is a mixed yellow and red, such as Mr. Stripy, or think of using a nearly black tomato like the Crimean.
Tomato Fans:
4 large ripe tomatoes
1 medium cucumber
4 lettuce leaves
Optional: vinegar and oil dressing
Core the tomatoes and slice each very thinly vertically, but not through the bottom. Slice the cucumber thinly. Insert cucumber slices between tomato slices. Serve on a lettuce leaf. You can drizzle a bit of any type dressing over, but with garden fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, it is not necessary. A great diet lunch.
Serves 4
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