First Crush

Scrub a dub

Last night, I noticed that some of the ripening tomatoes though not very big, had split. Maybe this was due to over-watering, compensating for when the tomatoes nearly died during our road trip. We should've heeded the words of our waitress at Fornino this week ... beware the bursting tomatoes.

Extreme Tomato Close-up

Regardless, we had to triage the situation, stat! We picked 'em (3 sweet 100s and 1 rutgers), harvested a few stalks of fresh basil and dug out the fresh mozzerella that we picked up from Fairway Redhook (which by the way, is awesome and yes, we did have the lobster roll).

Farm to Table

One of the cherry tomatoes was very sweet and the rutgers was tasty as well. Great texture. The home grown basil was amazing, so flavorful. I want to say that the tomatoes were the star, but the mozzerella out shone them. I didn't think much of the mozzerella when I tasted it at Fairway, but whoa it really tasted good. Leaving it in the car for a few hours while at IKEA must've helped the flavor.

Sweat and tears were shed over these tomatoes, so tasting the bounty of our efforts for the first time was pretty darn cool.