Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes!

Amber Waves Farm, 8/14/10

I don't know what it is about tomatoes, but I love them!

There may not be anything better than eating a cherry tomato, warm,
right off the plant. Let yourself go, experiment & try a different variety of tomato @ the farmer's market each week! Talk to the farmer selling them, find out what they like about the different varieties.
The small ones are wonderful (you can eat them like peanuts!), the big ones are great for slicing and eating on sandwiches or with mozzarella and basil, the green ones, the orange ones, the yellow ones....the list is endless, sumptuous, delectable!! And, they are so photogenic. I must have hundreds of tomato pictures...they just always look perfect!

If you are a gardener, you should definitely check out Seed Savers. This organization is passing on seeds from one generation to the next, and you can get some of them for your own garden. There is something really wonderful about eating a tomato that you might actually know the history of....where it came from, who grew it, how far back the seed lineage goes....and even if you don't know that, it is a great place to start and let your imagination run wild!

I took this photo @ Amber Waves Farm this morning....an awesome place that everyoneon the East End should visit!