It’s August and utter bliss for all who believe that if love grew from the ground it would be a sun-ripened tomato.
The tomato pots on my own balcony are yielding their own modest offerings. But the number doesn’t matter. I could eat bowl for dessert and melt in their sweetness.
Home Grown
Except for one, however. The one which grew a nose.
Is that a nose?
That’s right. It seems I have a tomato plant that is a bit of joker. How else can you explain a tomato with … personality.
That's Mr. Tomato to you
Particularly one who “nose” he will be eaten soon.
"Please, I don't belong in here."
But let’s not think too deeply about this. It’s summer and we can walk about in the warm air and practice reverence when we find simple pleasures at our fingertips. So put aside those fan-cee recipe books and borrow a page from John Denver’s songbook about what to do with one’s home grown tomatoes:
You can go out to eat and that’s for sure, but there’s nothing a homegrown tomato won’t cure.
Put ’em in a salad, put ’em in a stew, you can make your own, very own tomato juice.
You can eat ’em with eggs, eat ’em with gravy,
You can eat ’em with beans, pinto or navy.
Put ’em on the side, put ’em in the middle, homegrown tomatoes on a hot cake griddle.
Homegrown tomatoes, homegrown tomatoes, what would life be without homegrown tomatoes?
Only two things that money can’t buy and that’s true love and homegrown tomatoes.
Amen.
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Cooking tip: Keep your home grown tomatoes out of the refrigerator!
Kitchen Report 
Love this Kendra – I could a bowl full of tomato slices too – and I love a good BLT or even just a plain tomato sandwich – hmmm, miss having homegrown tomatoes! Don’t suppose you could wrap one up really well and bring it to MI?
HA ha!! Very clever! How did you know about the John Denver song??
Why shouldn’t they be put in the refrig??
Well, I think once you put homegrown tomatoes in the fridge that lose that sunny, warm taste. It could just be my imagination…
I just love fresh home grown tomatoes in BLTs with fresh sliced bread and, also, sliced with a bit of olive oil, balsamic vinegar and some fresh herbs from the garden: Yum…
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