There are several firsts that we look forward to during the cooking year. The first “real” arugula in the spring. The first grilled New York Strip of the season. And, without a doubt, the first BLT made with home grown tomatoes.
Nothing touches home grown tomatoes. Even farmers’ market tomatoes just aren’t the same. Pulling a plump, juicy tomato from the vine, feeling the heat of the flesh from the sun, cutting into the tomato and getting that smell of ripe summer… it just does not get better than that. Especially when it is the very first tomato of the season.
We reserve the first tomato of the season for our BLT ritual – served al fresco, with wine, for lunch. Our goal, which we hit almost every year, is that this tomato is ripened by the first weekend of July. But the details of the BLT tend to vary from year to year, depending on what is on hand and at its freshest. This year our BLT contained Nueske’s Applewood Smoked Bacon, arugula, Butler Farms Fresh Brebis Cheese with Garlic and Herbs, and farm fresh sweet onion.
And yes, it was as good as it looked.
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Ok maybe that second headline is a bit over the top. There has been a lot of fretting about the dangers of choking on hot dogs because of a policy statement on children and choking issued in February by the American Academy of Pediatrics. With summer upon us and the sizzles and smells of tubular meat in the air, the fear mongering is being ratcheted up! Now don’t misunderstand me, choking is a bad thing. It has always been a bad thing.
Paula Deen Defends Herself On The View
September 25, 2009It is reprehensible to me the way that Barbara Walters approached Paula Deen on this interview on “The View” recently.