First Tomato Sandwich of the Year

[cfbfan23]

Followed by a second.

Fresh Tomatoes
Sunbeam Bread
Dukes
Salt
Pepper

It's the only time I eat white bread. Man, those things are good. Follow it with some good watermelon and you've got one of the best summer combos. I will probably eat 50 more in the next two months.

 

[SoddyNole]

Followed by a second.

Fresh Tomatoes
Sunbeam Bread
Dukes
Salt
Pepper

It's the only time I eat white bread. Man, those things are good. Follow it with some good watermelon and you've got one of the best summer combos. I will probably eat 50 more in the next two months.

Throw some bacon on it and I'm right there with you.

 

[cfbfan23]

I do that sometimes, but with really really good tomatoes, I don't think you need to......and actually prefer it bacon-free (and I love bacon).

 

[Fijimn]

Throw some bacon on it and I'm right there with you.

If you added a cold leaf of lettuce....I think you might have something there....what should we call it.

 

[Imtotallynottribe]

My tomato plants in Tally started producing two or more months ago and are already exhausted.

 

[SoddyNole]

If you added a cold leaf of lettuce....I think you might have something there....what should we call it.

I would call it in the way of the bacon and tomatoes.

 

[cfbfan23]

My tomato plants in Tally started producing two or more months ago and are already exhausted.

Plant some more.

 

[Imtotallynottribe]

Plant some more.

We have four of the large earth boxes going, but we ripped out the exhausted tomatoes and replaced them with peppers, eggplant and okra. They should start pumping out stuff soon.

 

[cfbfan23]

You should have tomatoes going at all times, if you can.

 

[cfbfan23]

Throw some bacon on it and I'm right there with you.

I was up in Toronto for work last month and hit up the St. Lawrence Market for lunch. I had a bacon sandwich that looked quite a bit like this (I even put on the mustard):

 

[Fijimn]

Damn mockingbirds and squirrels eat my tomatoes before i get a chance to pick them and I had some nice heirloom ones growing.

 

[DanC78]

I had fresh tomatoe slices from my sisters garden with salt and pepper with my breakfast this morning...damn good!

Love me some tomatoe sandwiches as well. I’ll will toast my bread very lightly though.

 

[cmanole]

I had fresh tomatoe slices from my sisters garden with salt and pepper with my breakfast this morning...damn good!

Love me some tomatoe sandwiches as well. I’ll will toast my bread very lightly though.

 

[SoddyNole]

tomato...tomatoe potato....potatoe

Never knew we had a V. Pres on the boards.

 

[JohnnieHolmesNole]

My tomato plants in Tally started producing two or more months ago and are already exhausted.

Premature tomatoes?

 

[PoopandBoogers]

Local sweet corn and watermelon is also on point right now. Almost started a thread just dedicated to the goat summertime FL produce myself.

 

[PoopandBoogers]

So what's the deal with heirlooms? Havent tried one to my knowledge, but people are always yapping about how much better they are.

 

[cmanole]

Local sweet corn and watermelon is also on point right now. Almost started a thread just dedicated to the goat summertime FL produce myself.

How about the Indian River fruit? Ready for a vodka and oj at Jonathan's...

 

[DanC78]

That’s funny...but I swear to god my damn spell check kept bringing it up in the plural form and went back deleted the S.

Still should of corrected.

But whaeves

Tomatoe )

 

[KitingHigh]

I was up in Toronto for work last month and hit up the St. Lawrence Market for lunch. I had a bacon sandwich that looked quite a bit like this (I even put on the mustard):

In real countries that's considered a ham sandwich.

 

[cfbfan23]

In real countries that's considered a ham sandwich.

You’re probably thinking of Canadian (back) bacon. From the picture, it’s evident that this is pork belly, thick cut. If you give me smoked pork belly and cook it, I’m going to call it bacon. If you want to call it “ham,” go ahead.

 

[TallyNole93]

Heirlooms are not as pretty (round) but have a better tomato taste. They are tomatoes of old before everything was hybridized. The heirlooms we grow have more meat and less slime inside.

 

[KitingHigh]

You’re probably thinking of Canadian (back) bacon. From the picture, it’s evident that this is pork belly, thick cut. If you give me smoked pork belly and cook it, I’m going to call it bacon. If you want to call it “ham,” go ahead.

My bad. Without zooming up, on my phone it looks like Canadian bacon.

 

[goldmom]

The ideal is a tomato SO big that only one really thick slice is needed. Merita or Sunbeam white bread- day old - real Mayo, salt, and pepper. Done.
Get you a glass of sweet tea and some paper towels. Sit on the back stoop so you don't make a mess, cause if that sandwich is not messy it ain't good.
And that's how it's done.

 

[Imtotallynottribe]

So what's the deal with heirlooms? Havent tried one to my knowledge, but people are always yapping about how much better they are.

Miles better. Literally none of the tomatoes you buy in stores or most farmer markets/flea markets are actually ripe ie at the peak of their deliciousness. They are ALL picked green and then dosed with ethylene gas which artificially turns them red (or yellow or orange), but they don’t actually ripen unlike bananas and some apple varieties. They never get sweeter or more intense in flavor, they just start rotting. Even the “vine ripe” tomatoes you see advertised in store is a giant lie. They pick them green and dose them with the same gas it’s just they leave the vine attached but they are able to get away with it because the FDA says dosing with gas equals “ripen” and technically they are still on the vine it’s just not attached to the plant.

They do that because actually vine ripe tomatoes from your garden are too soft to transport, over half or more would be squished and bruised before they make it on the market. So instead you get bland but much tougher green tomatoes that are artificially reddened, not really “ripened”.

Therefore ANY variety of tomato and I don’t care which one you choose that is actually ripened on the plant will be 500x better than the best commercial crop green tomato that’s been reddened. And the great thing about growing your own is that the various varieties have vastly different flavours. Because I don’t have a lot of property around my Tally house, I just use self watering Earthboxes for whatever veggies I grow (I’ve got 4 large versions at the moment). And while the Self watering Earthboxes work great for 95% of veggies, for the large varieties of tomatoes the plants soak up too much water because the plants are greedy piggies which gets you lush and dense tomato plants but any tomato larger than a plum variety or thereabouts will literally burst at the seam. So I only grow the smaller varieties which work great in Earthboxes. But even there, I’ve got vastly different flavours. This year I grew orange sungolds which is a little round orange tomato that is INTENSELY flavored, Little ultrasweet, ultra”tomatoey” and ultra citrusy flavor that would be like you took the best ripe beefsteak tomato and marinated in an orange and honey syrup. I also grew yellow pears which are very mild in flavor with little actual “tomato” flavor but instead have a mild but sweet lemony flavor. I also grew some merlot tomatoes which are deep red, very tomatoey and sweet with no citrus flavor and Black Prince tomatoes which are purple almost black and have a midlevel amount of “tomatoey” flavor with only a hint of citrus.

 

[RunRonnieRun]

Hold the tomato on mine, please.

Bacon and lettuce sounds good tho.

 

[pink shizzle]

If you added a cold leaf of lettuce....I think you might have something there....what should we call it.

Some super crazy people may even get the idea to add mayo to that idea of yours.

 

[MagNoleA]

The ideal is a tomato SO big that only one really thick slice is needed. Merita or Sunbeam white bread- day old - real Mayo, salt, and pepper. Done.
Get you a glass of sweet tea and some paper towels. Sit on the back stoop so you don't make a mess, cause if that sandwich is not messy it ain't good.
And that's how it's done.

I kind of like it when you are eating it and those spicy juices run out all over you. A perfect ripeness is what makes it.

 

[RunRonnieRun]

I kind of like it when you are eating it and those spicy juices run out all over you. A perfect ripeness is what makes it.

You still talking about tomato sandwiches?