Tomatoes! Fresh picked, vine ripened, pure heaven. I love just about any food fresh from the garden but tomatoes are my favorite. We plant lots of them! Everything in the garden is late this year and I was worried that the tomatoes might not get ripe in time but they have arrived, thank goodness. The little sungolds have been producing for a while. They are so good popped into one's mouth sun-warm right from the vine. They were also great oven roasted and mixed with garlic, sopresatta, parsley, olives and capers over pasta for dinner tonight. The long San Marzanos are pressed for tomato sauce. We freeze the sauce and use it all winter long. It tastes just like fresh in pasta sauce and soup and paella. The fat Brandywines and dark Nyagous get used for everything else...BLTs, sliced with a sprinkling of salt, or diced for fresh tomato pasta. Nothing compares to the taste of tomatoes from the garden. One of my favorite Guy Clark songs is called "Homegrown Tomatoes." The chorus says "Only two things that money can't buy, that's True Love and Homegrown Tomatoes." If you have both, you are rich indeed.
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