You can’t beat the flavor of vine ripened homegrown tomatoes. This year I had a bumper crop with plenty of heirloom slicing tomatoes (perfect for sandwiches or salads) and my favorite Super Sweet 100 Cherry Tomatoes. I look forward to the ripening of the Super Sweets all summer long and take delight in snacking on them when they begin to ripen in late August.
My Plum Tomatoes thrived in a new garden area prepped with organic mulch from the compost pile. I’m coming down to the last of the autumn harvest on these tasty fruit, or vegetable, depending on where you side in the fruit / vegetable debate. Botanically, tomatoes are a fruit but for culinary purposes they are generally considered to be a vegetable.
Several years ago I was fortunate to learn the secrets of making fresh tomato sauce from my husband’s Italian grandmother. Today, at 96 years old, she still makes a pot of sauce every Sunday. I’ll be trying to squeeze out one more small batch from the harvest this year if the remaining tomatoes cooperate by ripening together, otherwise we’ll be having tomato, mozzarella and basil salad for dinner – either way a culinary delight.
Of course I couldn’t let the opportunity to photograph a few of the tomatoes and some fresh Thyme pass me by. Search out some of my other pictures of plum tomatoes, cherry tomatoes, beans and cucumbers from the garden in the Food / Drink category of my portfolio.