I wish I was better at describing tomato flavor! I can tell sweet and fruity, and these are not that. I use these almost exclusively for cooking because they are meaty, but also said to be good fresh as well.
My favorite thing to cook with them is this Hyderabadi tomato chutney and this Taze Fasulye inspired green beans with tomatoes
Tangent:
I tried using an insecticidal soap made by Safers on my hollyhocks.
I went out for lunch an hour later. My wrist starts burning an hour into lunch, on a patio.
I rub it, I figure it’s nickel allergy from my bracelet. It looks a little red. I have been reacting to some silver and costume jewellery lately.
The next day, blisters appear on my wrist, right where the bracelet had been. There were also a couple blisters on my hands and fore arm. I wondered if it could be measles (but they would be elsewhere as well) or an allergy to a plant in the garden.
My family thought it was a burn from the oven, or dermatitis, not a nickel allergy.
I bought special bandaids to cover the blisters while gardening, and the blisters burst. It was awful getting the bandage off.
Finally, I figured out what happened.
The nickel and other metals in my bracelet reacted to drift from the spray (potassium salts), and I got a 2nd degree chemical burn where the bracelet was touching my arm.
The spray said to soak your skin in water for 20 minutes if you are exposed, but I didn’t even know I was exposed.
I think this scar is probably going to take a long time to fade.
Those recipes sound wonderful! They’ve been added to my digital recipe folder.
My preferences for tomato flavor steers into tart and “tomatoey”, like the antique/heirloom Italian types.
I’ve had better luck using a 50/50 blend of cayenne and black pepper powder. Many animals don’t mind the oral burn or capsaicin (especially rats). But, when it gets in their eyes and sinuses, most critters flee. That’s what I’ve been using on sweet potatoes. With the drought, it works well. but, we may get rain from the remnants of Debby. That’ll leave plants unprotected. We’re desperate for rain. Many hundreds of acres of corn and soybeans are ruined.
Our final corn pick of the season. 
I blame the cool weather for those last few, underdeveloped ears. OTOH kudos to DH for the excellent pollinating job this year - every single cob we were able to grow (despite low temps) came in beautifully full (not always the case). Whatever he did differently this year, I nicely asked he keep it up.
Those are beautiful- seed catalog photo tomatoes.
That sounds terrible! How is it healing?
We are getting several days of deluge here, including very serious winds yesterday. I’ve learned a bit in my paltry four years of gardening about how to support tomato plants, partic because I grow exclusively enormous and unruly indeterminate varieties. So my two tomato plants are fairly well-supported and didn’t sustain any wind damage, or damage from being weighed down with water. The cherry tomato fruits otoh are splitting like crazy, even the green ones. I keep pulling them off when there is a break in the rain. And tonight I harvested anything that had broken color even very slightly. They ripen on the counter.
Unfortunately I failed to secure my pepper plants as competently; every year I forget how spindly and kind of weak they are. So I had to figure out how to help keep them upright tonight as the sun went down, which was made more difficult by the fact that they have bunch of heavy peppers on them. I always buy “red” sweet bell pepper seedlings, but have never gotten any of the peppers to actually turn. They start to rot before they turn red, so every year I give in and just harvest and eat them green. They’re still superior to store-bought. Anyway one of my pepper plants actually had a pepper that was healthy, large AND turning red, and I was monitoring it closely in the hopes I could let it turn fully before picking, but tonight I cut it off, along with the other large peppers, and brought it inside. There’s another 24+ hrs of hard wind and rain coming, and I don’t want the heavy plants to buckle in the storm.
I still have most of my celery in the ground, but it’s very sturdy so I’m not worried about it.
Every time there’s big-time weather, I marvel that humans figured out how to cultivate food reliably enough for humans to survive and thrive.
Very good detective work, but sorry you got burned.
Extremely photogenic!
My tomatoes are still hard and green and we are expecting that rain deluge tonight. Hoping for the best! I did tie them up more after our last downpour so hoping not too much damage.
3 weeks later, it’s looking like baby skin. It’s coming along. My hands and arms are a mess this summer. I also broke my baby toe 5 weeks ago so I’m more of a disaster than usual. 
Thanks. First time to hurt myself with chemicals.
I don’t grow large bells anymore, but the corno de toro and chile peppers I grow continue to ripen to red if they have a little color when I pick them.
I’m hoping!
Beautiful! Almost too beautiful to eat!
Thank you!
