Tomato Season - the Master Thread

That mayo, be still my heart!

Dukes!

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I make the tomato pie filling in a pyrex dish, and top with the mayo cheese mixture.

I guess it becomes more of a gratin, and it doesn’t slice. It’s still delicious.

I don’t bother making a crust unless I’m making it for company.

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Good idea! This will be tomato pie for one, for sure!

I realized I had a small springform pan from my Instant pot cheesecake plans that never came to fruition, so I may try the springform one in the link, but making something like a gratin in a small baking dish makes just as much sense.

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Dwarf Purple Heart

Does this meet criteria for a salad?

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Yes, it does! Many of my tomato salads are tomato, olive oil, vinegar, and optional basil/dill/oregano/pepper/salt/sugar

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Nice one! I’ve harvested most of my first batch of fruits and I’m going to have a lull for a while due to hot weather - the latest batch of blossoms mostly just dried up and fell off. But I did harvest a gorgeous 13.5 oz Black Krim today. And Early Girl, bless her, is still loaded with mediocre fruit, LOL.

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Of course!

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The best BLT I had this summer: Wegmans and Aldi thick sliced bacon, red slicing tomatoes, iceberg, Duke’s on Japanese milk bread. Oh, my.

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Beautiful! Which one is that?

Purple Cherokee again. That’s my only slicer.

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My Ultra Sweet tomatoes are producing maybe 2 red tomatoes a week, as are my Glamour.

The flavour has been quite good. I’m not great at keeping them separate once I get home, to compare the tastes.

The Ultra Sweet and Glamour have been less blemished than usual this year.

My first plant, a variety I didn’t write down, had really delicious big tomatoes, but many were catfaced due to the weather in May. A few had a touch of blossom end rot.

I pulled out that first plant last week because the leaves looked diseased.

I pulled out a Montreal tomato I grew from seed because its leaves had become diseased as well. My tomatoes almost always develop blight by Aug 20th so I’m trying to keep a watch on any diseased plants this year.

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:crossed_fingers:t4: Crossing my fingers for you!

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Here are my Ultra Sweets and Glamours. I reuse the baskets from the store or farmers’ market.

Here’s my breakfast, bacon, tomato, mayo, and egg on toasted 12 grain.

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BEE ELL TEE.

2 heirlooms, Aldi Appleton thick sliced bacon, iceberg, Duke’s, Japanese milk bread.

I could do this all summer long…

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I think I have to make Woks of Life Milk Bread again.

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I think you do, too :slight_smile:

I might even make my PIC bake some, since I shared my source with far too many peeps, and I’m afraid I shot myself in the foot by doing so :grimacing:

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The fruits of the Farmers’ Market, a fried green tomato BLT on sourdough.

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It photographed ok, but it flunked as a sandwich. The green tomatoes were hard and flavorless and the romaine was the wrong lettuce. I am remorseful.

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