Dang It !

[Boaz]

Came home and my neighbor had a bag of homegrown tomatoes hanging on my door ! First ones this year so I know what supper is . All I need is the salt shaker !

[Hickory]

All I need is the salt shaker !

Nope, you need to fry up some bacon, toast some bread and combine with mayonnaise and lettuce.

[Boaz]

That suggestion has much merit but I got no bacon ...but I do have tomatoes ! My neighbor is a good and generous man with many tomatoes coming off . Tomorrow I will invest in a couple pounds of bacon . Heavy on the mayo .

[frankenfab]

I picked my first one today.

[MaryB]

Toast, mayo, tomato, lettuce, salt works too!

[frankenfab]

When they really start rolling in, I just eat plates of cut up tomatoes with salt, pepper, and mayo.

[country gent]

Cut them thick slices and run thru the smoker then to your sandwich. I used to smoke them low and slow for my wifes BLTS she really liked the added flavor.

[pworley1]

We eat them by themselves with salt. also on loaf bread, but we use miracle whip instead of mayo.

[square butte]

I am envious - We won't have fresh tomatoes until July here in VT - But we do have bacon

[GhostHawk]

Grew up eating them sliced thick just the way the Lord made them on toast.

Not a BLT, just a T.

We won't see slicers up here till harvest time, late July.

[Boaz]

square butte I have been waiting for the tomatoes to start ...I look forward to it every year. Only lasts a little while but I take full advantage of it .

[Bulldogger]

Grew up eating them sliced thick just the way the Lord made them on toast.

Not a BLT, just a T.

We won't see slicers up here till harvest time, late July.

That's my summer workweek lunch until harvest slows. Love it. I have some whoppers, but all still very green. About to pick them anyway and fry them up, hard to be patient.

BDGR

[gwpercle]

I had three small Roma's get ripe.....but more is coming !
I need to get off my lazy behind and fertilize them about now.
The Brandywine tomatoes I planted are the good tasting ones .
BLT's with cheese and Blue Plate Mayo on white bread , toasted or untoasted...OH YEAH !

[square butte]

Yep - We have Brandywine and Roma's planted here - Brandywine is what we have liked best over the decades

[MaryB]

Not sure what I have planted, after frost took mine out my neighbor donated 30 plants(she had 300 started), she even planted them for me. Some of mine have survived but they look sickly still.

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

Salt on home grown tomatoes? that's heresy.
I think some people need to pray for forgiveness.

[firewalkerd1]

Try just Plain lite bread slices of tomato and slices sweet onion with a little mayo.Works wonders.

[gwpercle]

Yep - We have Brandywine and Roma's planted here - Brandywine is what we have liked best over the decades

For taste Brandywine are hard to beat. If there are better tasting, I haven't discovered it yet . I grow the Roma for canning/freezing and cooking!
Gary

[JonB_in_Glencoe]

For taste Brandywine are hard to beat. If there are better tasting, I haven't discovered it yet . I grow the Roma for canning/freezing and cooking!
Gary

Yes, Brandywine are real good, but I got some seed for a heirloom called Black Brandywine (the fruit looks and cracks just like Cherokee purple) and has a richer, more robust flavor, then Brandywine. But, The Campfire is even tastier, a bit sweeter than most, as yellow tomatoes typically are, which balances the acidic flavor...it's a tomato that cries out to be eaten fresh with nothing else, more than any other.
Of course these are my opinions

some photos of the tomatoes I mention.
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...nge&highlight=

[CIC]

So no one here mentioned the only real way to enjoy fresh tomatoes and that is with cottage cheese. YUM!