My first entry ever was about a tomato that cost $4.64. It still haunts me. Today I experienced summer love out of my own garden. There is nothing better on a summer day than a tomato sandwich. Nothing. Just look at this beautiful big ol' boy! LOVE at first bite. All you need is two slices of bread, a generous smear of mayo, a sprinkle of kosher salt, a grind of pepper, and a splash of red wine vinegar. Divine tomato. Look at these wonderful little cherry tomatoes, that came up as volunteers from last summer, all twenty nine of them. I eat these like candy or treat them like a healthy "bloody mary". For that you need a little bowl of vodka, cherry tomatoes, and a bowl of Jane's crazy salt. Get a toothpick, dip your cherry tomato in the vodka, and then dip it in the crazy salt, and pop it in your mouth. Crazy good, Nan
HOLY BATMAN, ROBIN!
I just came home from the grocery store and thought my bill was a little high. I use to put my receipt in a drawing for free groceries, but I guess with the recession they decided to stop all that nonsense...any who. Well, I actually looked at my receipt and care to guess? No, it was not an organic tomato, in fact it was an "ugly" tomato, seriously an UGLY tomato! Drumroll please...$4.64. Four dollars and sixty-four CENTS for a TOMATO. Well, hell's bells when you pay FOUR DOLLARS and SIXTY FOUR CENTS for a TOMATO, your bill is going to be high. Well, of course it was a good-looking tomato for being so damn ugly. If I had not wanted the BLT of my dreams, and the idea of taking two boys to the grocery store at the end of the day did not repeal me, I would have taken it back. Bad Publix Bad! O.K., I'm still trying to justify the tomato, I am hoping that the arugula, red-tipped lettuce, basil from my garden, along with my Costco bacon will offset my fabulous B.L.T. I should have taken a picture of the B.L.T., but considering that I gobbled it in an upright position seconds after I put the top on(bread) and gave it a good firm smash, as the splash of balsamic, generous smear of hellman's, layers of basil, arugula, lettuce, bacon out the wah-zoo, and that tomato...Well, it was never to be plated or ever seen again. However, I did take a picture of THE TOMATO. Enjoy.
