Nirvana, tomato style

[nctomatoman]

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!)