Nirvana, tomato style

**nctomatoman** · July 11, 2007

Tonight we got a chance to compete the picture....you start out early with a few Mexico Midgets and a Kimberly or two. Because you are starved for "real" tomatoes, they taste great. Sungold comes in and you have your flavor bomb variety - but it is small, it cracks, the skin can be tough. A few others start ripening - earlier and midseason medium sized varieties (for me, many of the dwarfs - New Big Dwarf, Golden Dwarf champion) - even better, because now you have some real material to work with.

Then....you get to cook and make things with Stump of the World, Cherokee Purple, Lillian's Yellow - and you are once again reminded what this is all about.

I just finished making a simple pasta salad (cubes of tomatoes and sweet peppers with al dente pasta, with a simple dressing of extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, fresh pepper and lots of basil - served with cubes of fresh Mozarella and shavings of Parmesan Reggiano)....I cut a Cherokee Purple - called my wife, put a piece in her mouth - she swoons. Same with Stump of the World. Which is better? Who cares!

It doesn't get any better than this for real tomato lovers!!!!!

(excuse me while we go eat...supper's ready!)

duajones · July 11, 2007

Now you definitely made me hungry. Enjoy your harvest

johno · July 11, 2007

I just ate my first ever Cherokee Purple a few hours ago - now I know what you mean! I forgot all about the salt and pepper somehow...

Grub · July 12, 2007

Wooohooo! Glad to hear the happiness in your voice, to vicariously smell the tomato aroma, and taste the homegrown heaven....

Wait a minute... I'm months away... send some Down Under.

And, per-lease, don't tell me you're going to become a container man? Lol. No spades or anything...

Mantis · July 12, 2007

I can imagine the juice flowing down chins here LOL. I know the feeling Craig, the first big pink or black is carried into the house with two hands so as not to drop it. Yum

Granny · July 12, 2007

You are SO lucky Craig! I am waiting. . . . . waiting. . . . . still waiting. I've got SubArctic Plenty & Stupice up on the hill looking like they should ripen up any day now. All nice and shiny and everything. Still eating store-bought. Nasty stuff.

Tomstrees · July 12, 2007

I keep reading great things about "Stump" ...
Might have to make the 2008 "cut" ...

~ Tom

July 11, 2007	#1
nctomatoman Tomatoville® Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hendersonville, NC zone 7 Posts: 10,385	Nirvana, tomato style Tonight we got a chance to compete the picture....you start out early with a few Mexico Midgets and a Kimberly or two. Because you are starved for "real" tomatoes, they taste great. Sungold comes in and you have your flavor bomb variety - but it is small, it cracks, the skin can be tough. A few others start ripening - earlier and midseason medium sized varieties (for me, many of the dwarfs - New Big Dwarf, Golden Dwarf champion) - even better, because now you have some real material to work with. Then....you get to cook and make things with Stump of the World, Cherokee Purple, Lillian's Yellow - and you are once again reminded what this is all about. I just finished making a simple pasta salad (cubes of tomatoes and sweet peppers with al dente pasta, with a simple dressing of extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, fresh pepper and lots of basil - served with cubes of fresh Mozarella and shavings of Parmesan Reggiano)....I cut a Cherokee Purple - called my wife, put a piece in her mouth - she swoons. Same with Stump of the World. Which is better? Who cares! It doesn't get any better than this for real tomato lovers!!!!! (excuse me while we go eat...supper's ready!) __________________ Craig

July 12, 2007	#7
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	I keep reading great things about "Stump" ... Might have to make the 2008 "cut" ... ~ Tom __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

July 11, 2007	#2
duajones Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Corpus Christi,Texas Z9 Posts: 1,996	Now you definitely made me hungry. Enjoy your harvest

July 11, 2007	#3
johno Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Arkansas zone 6b Posts: 441	I just ate my first ever Cherokee Purple a few hours ago - now I know what you mean! I forgot all about the salt and pepper somehow...

July 12, 2007	#4
Grub Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 2,722	Wooohooo! Glad to hear the happiness in your voice, to vicariously smell the tomato aroma, and taste the homegrown heaven.... Wait a minute... I'm months away... send some Down Under. And, per-lease, don't tell me you're going to become a container man? Lol. No spades or anything...

July 12, 2007	#5
Mantis Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oz Posts: 1,241	I can imagine the juice flowing down chins here LOL. I know the feeling Craig, the first big pink or black is carried into the house with two hands so as not to drop it. Yum

July 12, 2007	#6
Granny Tomatovillian™ Honoree Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 507	You are SO lucky Craig! I am waiting. . . . . waiting. . . . . still waiting. I've got SubArctic Plenty & Stupice up on the hill looking like they should ripen up any day now. All nice and shiny and everything. Still eating store-bought. Nasty stuff.