I don’t get excited for baseball season or football season, or even for watermelon season. But I sure as hell get excited for tomato season.
Though my own fledgling plant has yet to be fruitful, and tomato season is delayed for many because of the cold, rainy summer, enough farmers in my general area have been lucky enough to allow me to get in on the tomato action.
For at least a month now, I’ve been getting wonderful hydroponic tomatoes from local farms through my CSA (the yellow ones) and last weekend I picked up some great ripe red ones from a roadside stand in Southern Missouri. While I can’t tell you which ‘breed’ any of my tomatoes actually are, I can tell you that they are perfectly ripe and delicious. And when mixed with a little balsamic vinegar, olive oil, salt, pepper and fresh basil from the only plant on my balcony that’s producing anything, they’re a great topping for CSA sourdough bread that’s toasted on the stove in butter, lots of butter.
