Isn’t the best thing in the world a fresh, ripe, just picked tomato? OK, I just happened to be given a large quantity (large for me!) of incredible Ontario tomatoes so I’m all about the tomato for this blog! They even smell like tomatoes. The little ones just pop in your mouth and the sweet juices ooze out. I’m salivating just writing this post. You can’t imagine how good these are.
We’re having some landscaping done on both front and back yards of our home. The guys are working so hard, so I suggested to JT to buy them lunch today. We were going to get pizza, but one of our customers at work was kind enough to give me some of their product: ribs! I said, cook up the ribs and serve them with the tomato salad! But these guys don’t eat salad, he said. We’ll see!
I sliced the tomatoes into bite-sized pieces, added some fresh basil from the garden (both purple and mini basil), grated some fresh garlic (also from my garden), EVOO (from our neighbours Tom and Iona – it’s from his Dad’s olive grove in Greece!) and some wonderful balsamic. Wow! Incredible salad – and it’s own story to tell. I’m hoping I’m wrong and the guys really don’t eat salad so I can have it for dinner tonight (I might add some goats milk Feta!)
For dinner last night, we grilled up a loin of pork and sliced them on top of our fresh tomato salad (you didn’t think I was going to give the salad all away, did you? I’m really not THAT generous!)
[…] part of the Terroni Restaurant Group (Tom is the one who gave us his father’s wonderful olive oil from Greece). Tom is an architect and his company designs all of the Terroni Restaurants (I believe […]
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Fresh tomato salad- be still my heart. I love fresh tomatoes i think i got it from my dad who used to eat them like an apple! Your tomatoes look divine and I wish i had been there for that grilled pork and tomato salad feast! YUM!
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Thanks Jessica, everything was so good. Sadly tomatoes this delicious also signifies the end of summer 😦
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My most enjoyable thing about growing tomatoes last year was picking it from the vine and immediately shoving it into my mouth just to be like “ha! never in my life have I had a more fresh tomato!” (and boy was it good :D). You’re nicer than me though – If I get my hands on something really good, food-wise, I have a real hard time sharing it, *especially* if it’s with people who I think won’t appreciate it! (Yeah, I know, I’m a terrible snob :D)
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Hi Charles, it turned out the guys chose not to have the salad, so we had it for dinner. It was really yummy!
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The salad sounds great….quality ingredients treated with respect! That’s always the best way to go! I hope we get to see some before and after pics of the landscaping!
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Thanks Ann, and the guys chose no salad 🙂 go figure! It was very very very tasty for dinner tonight! Their loss!
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What a lovely simple salad and shows off the lovely tomatoes to their best advantage 🙂
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Truly; thank you Lorraine.
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The more, the merrier!
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I like that attitude, Angie!
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Your tomatoes look great. I cannot get enough of them this time of year. That salad sounds incredibly fresh!
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Thanks Ashlea, welcome to my blog. The tomatoes were incredible!
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In my experience, hungry guys (and gals) that have been working their tails off will eat just about anything…and if it’s good there will be nothing left (even if it is a salad!). I’m thinking it’s a good thing you set some aside. 🙂 Looks like the landscaping will be beautiful.
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Thanks Kristy, you’re probably right!
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Great looking tomatoes. That salad sounds wonderful to me, so I wouldn’t be counting on it still being around.
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Seems to be the consensus, Greg.
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