What is Your Favorite Way to Eat Tomatoes?

14 years ago

I think mine is bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwiches, eating them fresh with salt, and tomato salad. Do you have a favorite way?

Sue

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terilyn
14 years ago
Standing over the sink with a pepper mill!
monica_pa Grieves
14 years ago
First, fry some bacon in a deep frying pan.
Then, sliced the tomatoes, dip them in beaten egg, dredge in fresh bread crumbs...and then fried in the bacon bacon grease.

Fried tomatoes and bacon...MMMmmmmm
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lindaohnowga
14 years ago
Homegrown Mater/cheese/mayo sandwich on bun.
glenda_al
14 years ago
Fried green tomato BLT is number ONE
Sliced tomato sandwich with mayo and crushed potato chips
LOVE chopped tomato, chopped bell pepper in cottage cheese with crackers
pfllh
14 years ago
Do like daddy did. Take that old chair, sit it in the garden with the hose watering the plants close by. Pick a good one, wash it off. Take the salt shaker and a big bite. Eat it all gone and get another mater and just enjoy the whole atmosphere. Such fond memories, eating in the garden.
Lynn
sheilajoyce_gw
14 years ago
BLTs

A hot night's dinneer of a tomato sliced into wedges and opened like a flower on a plate. Onto that tomato scoop a cup of June pea and shrimp salad.

I also just love fresh tomato, hard boiled egg and cottage cheese salad for lunch.
chubby_rat
14 years ago
Right now I'm still on a Bruschetta kick...didn't have enough tomatoes yesterday so got one from the neighbor.He has a couple plants too...Toasted some bread this morning and had Bruschetta for lunch.Other than that...BLT's no mayo please,just salt & papper,sometimes a fried egg on it too.Oh and it has to be on white toast w/butter.
glenda_al
14 years ago
How about BLOOD MATERS :O)
Take cherry tomatoes, soak them overnite in vodka, remove the stem to soak the vodka, overnite.
Serve in the vodka, with lemon pepper arranged around the platter for dipping, along with olives, cocktail onions.

Now that's a humdinger! Have toothpicks handy.
helencolby
14 years ago
Every way you can eat a home grown tomato is my favorite way !! Well maybe not with vodka, but only because I don't drink. I love them warm from the sun right from the vine, and chilled, sliced with S & P and in a BLT or not. I guess I just love Home Grown Maters,

Helen
loggerbaby123
14 years ago
right from the vine with a salt shaker handy lol..thanks ladies now im craving fresh "maters" and its after 11 pm my time. lol
maryanntx
14 years ago
If they are home grown....cut in wedges with salt and papper. I had one with my lunch today. Mmmmm!
petra_gw
14 years ago
Thinly sliced, served on fresh rye bread with Mayo and a little salt. Now I am hungry! :)
lisa_fla
14 years ago
Mixed with scrambled eggs and feta!!
donna_loomis
14 years ago
I can eat them as they are.
I can eat them in a car.
I can sprinkle them with salt.
High blood pressure? Not my fault.
Yummy with vinaigrette.
Sprinkled with sugar? You bet.
Onions, tomatoes and mayo on bread.
The ways to eat them fill my head.
Sprinkled with sugar, they're nice and sweet.
Dipped in Ranch, they're quite a treat.
SautÃ© squash and onions and toss cheese and tomatoes in.
Stuffed with cucumbers and shrimp, they make me grin.
Brushed with oil and grilled.
Tuna salad filled.
Any way you make 'em,
That's the way I'll take 'em.
rthummer
14 years ago
Bacon, lettuce and tomato. Or with salt shaker in hand, go out to the garden, pick one on a hot summer day, tomato is warm and sit down and eat it! Ohhhh...Weee!!!
wantoretire_did
14 years ago
Mozzarella, tomato and basil (Insalata Caprese) but with balsamic vinegar with the olive oil. YUMMMMM

Over the sink with salt is good too, or BLT's, and so it goes :-)

Here is a link that might be useful: Insalata Caprese
barbara3
14 years ago
Fresh off the vine, still warm from the sun, no salt necessary -- YUM!!

Then a tomato sandwich - white bread, butter, Miracle Whip, tomatoes, pepper, salt. Let it stand for a while so that it all mooshes together. When I was a kid, I would eat the leftover tomato sandwiches from Mom's bridge club the night before for breakfast. Soooooo good - comfort food from my childhood.
vicki_lv
14 years ago
Green, dipped in egg, then in corn flake crumbs and fried! Eaten with a dollop of sour cream on the side.

Fresh from the garden?

On white bread with Miracle Whip (the only time I eat Miracle Whip), pepper and crushed up potato chips.

Over the sink with salt and pepper...and I don't care if it runs down my chin and on my clothes.

Cut into wedges...with a mixture of sour cream, vinegar (preferably citrus champagne vinegar) a little sugar, salt and pepper poured on top.

I rarely get to eat any of the above. Good tomatoes are a rare sight here. Even vine ripened ones in the store are not great.
janie_ga
14 years ago
Sliced and placed inside one of Granny's buttermilk biscuts. this was my birthday dinner last year (didn't have any in the freezer for this year's):

{{!gwi}}
phyllis__mn
14 years ago
Our favorite salad when the kids were little.....just chunks of tomatoes and cukes and Miracle Whip. Sometimes added bacon crumbs. My absolute favorite is the very first one that ripens in the garden.....just a little salt and what bliss!
patti43
14 years ago
Donna--you're so clever!! I like them still warm just off the vine with salt. We used to just wipe the dirt off on our clothes (I'm sure mom appreciated that.)
itsmesuzq
14 years ago
I'm with patti43! I love to walk by my cherry tomato plant and pop them in my mouth when I see that they're ready.

Of course I might starve to death if I only ate them that way. My other favorite is to buy homegrown beefsteak tomatoes, slice them thick and then put a big dollop (or two) of cottage cheese on them. Dust them with salt and pepper and go to town. It's a perfect summertime meal!!

Susan
cherbo
14 years ago
Cut off the top, then with salt shaker in hand sprinkle with salt and bite in. What bliss!!!
caroline94535
14 years ago
Standing in the garden, next to a tomato plant, with salt shaker and papertowel in one hand, sun-warmed, ripe tomato in the other.
irishdancersgram
14 years ago
Any way you can eat a tomato is good....I think my all time favorite is on a good sandwich bun with Isaley's chipped ham and just salt and pepper......
tammyms
14 years ago
Sliced, with salt & pepper, right next to fresh purple hull peas, cornbread & green onions.
cheri2008
14 years ago
My good friend intoduced me to this last sommer..
slice tomatoes, thinly slice an onion, I like red, or vadalia,place in a sealable dish, top with feta .. place in refrigerater for several hours,the mixture seems to make its own dressing as it sets, a little salt...YUMMY..
The tomatoes are't quite ripe yet... can hardly wait !!
barb_from_pa
14 years ago
Good one, Donna!

Cherry tomato right off the vine or tomato sandwich with mayo. You have really made me wish the 'maters in my garden were ripening faster!
caflowerluver
14 years ago
A tomato sandwich - sour dough bread - toasted, mayo, tomatoes - picked fresh and warm from the garden, salt & pepper. Another good way is an open face tomato sandwich. Same ingredients but with fresh basil and your favorite cheese melted on top of the tomato. You can even add cooked bacon. Yum!
Clare
gemini40
14 years ago
I love Insalata Caprese too...my absolute favorite. Tomato slices layered with fresh buffalo mozzarella, fresh basil, I use fresh oregano, capers , extra virgin olive oil, sea salt and pepper and capers. no balsamic vinegar on mine....Can you say...DELICIOUS.

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