Courses: Condiments

Heirloom Tomatoes Make for Great Salsa
By Categories: Appetizers, Cooking Methods, Featured, Hardy Vegetables, Locally Grown, Recipes, Root Vegetables, Seasonal, Summer Produce, Tomatoes

  Jillian Prout of Prout’s Jollyview Farm in the Oley Valley of Berks County enjoys the heirloom tomatoes she grows, but it might be fair to say she enjoys a good salsa from them even more. Heirloom tomatoes, known as heritage tomatoes in the U.K., are the ancient tomatoes of those who came decades and…

The Rockettes and Homegrown Tomato Sandwiches
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There’s this sandwich my grandmother makes. It’s easy to build and very delicious. It starts with perfectly ripe tomatoes. When the summer heat first yields vine ripe tomatoes in earnest, you simply slice them, lightly salt them, and stuff them between two toasted pieces of white bread that have been slathered with mayonnaise.  This sandwich…