Tomato Sandwich!

After two or three years of encouragement from a friend, I ate my first tomato sandwich recently. I have now eaten three tomato sandwiches. I don't know why, but the thought of eating a sandwich without even a hint of meat on it never seemed legitimate somehow.

When you have bacon, salami, tuna, and various other forms of animal protein in the refrigerator, why would you possibly consider eating a sandwich with nothing but tomato, onion, and mayo on sourdough toast? The most accurate answer is because it may be the most decadently delicious sandwich I've ever eaten.

Yesterday evening, I spotted a very large, bright red, Dester tomato peeking out at me from the thick foliage of a tall plant. It was almost screaming "eat me, eat me". I wanted to give it one more night of security comfortably nestled into the branches of the tomato plant, so I left it where it was while anticipating the sandwich it would provide the following day. While I was sleeping last night, we got some much needed rain. When I woke this morning with water running off the roof, my first thought was for the Dester tomato which probably had split wide open from the excess water. I was pleasantly surprised to find the tomato in good condition as I gently placed it in a bag with some other large tomatoes.

As I was walking back too the house from the garden, I noticed the pest control guy leaving in his pickup. We contract the service to spray our house foundation every couple of months to deter our resident scorpions from deciding they would prefer to live in air conditioned comfort. I asked the guy if his wife would like some home grown tomatoes. He seemed to be having some kind of fit as he tried to answer in the affirmative. To stop his sputtering and spitting, I handed him the bag with all my very large tomatoes in it. I kept the bag of smaller tomatoes and a couple of bags of fresh carrots I was carrying. Only as he was driving out the gate did I realize I had just given my prized Dester away.

Oh well! There are a lot of good things that can be said about a tomato sandwich made with a Marizol Purple tomato and I still have plenty of Desters ripening on the vine.

Ted