Tomato Season - the Master Thread

Some small fruit recommendations:

Cherry White – Actually a light yellow. Very sweet, abundant yield, long season, too. Pick before it rains as it cracks easily when ripe. Save the seeds from a cracked one for next year.

Napa Grape – A grape tomato with real flavor and without the dense texture of most other grape varieties, excellent yield over a long season. Does not crack. Red

Mountain Magic – Salad size, early with a long season until frost, excellent flavor and yield. Red

Sunchocola – Salad size, brown variety with the deep flavor typical of brown tomatoes. Nice yield too.

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I wish the produce markets by me would label the loose tomato varieties they sell. TOMATO isn’t enough description.

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Hmm, I’ve only seen them in Japan, at high-end department store food halls, or at B2B food expos.

I wish I had a more useful response for you, since they were a bona fide dessert treat.

That’s what I thought after google searching and Google Translate help. I would be open to trying to grow them from seeds saved from the fresh tomatoes, but my experience with trying this with branded premium tomatoes have all failed as the proprietary varieties are hybrids, not open pollenated. Maybe they will sell them in the US one day.

My tomatoes are late this year, but I got a good haul yesterday in my small urban backyard. These, along with the piles on the windowsill and other counter, will keep me busy for a while. Freezing the small ones and roasting and milling some large, milling some raw to freeze. And eating a lot of toasted tomato sandwiches.

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Ottolenghi had his take on Shrimp Saganaki in the New York Times magazine yesterday, adding chipotle, ancho and hot pepper to Shrimp Saganaki.

He adds cilantro, instead of oregano, parsley, and/or dill.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/11/magazine/shrimp-saganaki-summer-recipe.html



That would be too much garlic for us, and too much feta for us.

I usually use 3 to 4 ounces of feta to 1 lb of shrimp.

I’ll make a variation with 1 clove of garlic in total tonight.

Here’s a more typical shrimp saganaki, with parsley, oregano or dill .