The Tomatoes Right Now

The tomatoes right now... are insane.

So incredibly unreal good that I'm having trouble describing it. I guess I could just say that I've been enjoying some of the most tomatoey tomatoes I've ever had. The Rhinbeck farmers market had me enjoying Brandywines, and Green Zebras, and after a stop at the Union Square Green Market I was snacking on Cherokee Purples, Purple Russians, Black Princes, and Marvel Stripes. The names are fairly amusing, don't you think?

Not only do all these great heirloom tomatoes look gorgeous and colorful but they all taste distinctly different. Have a tomato tasting party, I think your friends will like it. Hell, they might hate it but screw 'em, just eat some tomatoes right now, okay?

While I have happily been munching away on all these tomaters with just a sprinkling of kosher salt, I saw this cover of Bon Appetit Magazine and needed a tomato sandwich in my life.

I switched it up a bit, but the general idea is still there. Basically: heirloom tomatoes, cheese, herbs, slice of bread....pure magic. Allow me to repeat the moral here...you should be eating an heirloom tomato right now, I'm so serious.

This hardly requires a recipe but I'll give you the amounts for one tomato toast with the hopes that you might actually make this for yourself and eat it!

1 slice of whole grain bread, toasted

1 tsp chopped basil
1 tbl fresh goat cheese
1 tsp olive oil
several slices of heirloom tomatoes (about 1 tomato total, I used a couple slices of a big tomato and a few smaller tomatoes)
kosher salt

layer tomatoes on the slice of bread

top with basil and crumbled goat cheese

drizzle olive oil on top

add a sprinkle of salt

As you can tell I devoured this pretty quickly, but I mean...they're only in season for so long, so eat up!

Fresh Tomatoes

First the asparagus, now the tomatoes. I love summer produce.

While we were at the Ballard Farmers Market we made sure to pick up some of the gorgeous tomatoes that are popping up around town/farm

Sweet summertime tomatoes are such a treat. yeah I said it, a gosh darn treat! On the other hand, a grainy tomato is one of the worst surprises ever, so I guess tomatoes are a love em or hate em kind of deal.

Let me just get this off my chest, tomatoes this good really only need some salt....yet I decided to spice it up a little bit anyway.



I made myself a sweet little snack with one of these red beauties yesterday

here's what you'll need:

• 1 gorgeous tomato


• a chunk of cucumber, peeled


• 2 basil leaves


• 1 tbl boursin cheese


• .5 tbl olive oil


• s&p

slice up the tomatoes, slice up the cuke

drizzle with olive oil, sprinkle with torn basil leaves & bits of boursin cheese

things to consider: in hindsight, the cucumber was wildly unnecessary. Not to say it tasted bad, but come on it just wasn't needed. The tomato is clearly the star of this show.

nice and simple and oh so delicious