Sexy Homegrown Tomatoes Bare All

An article by Rachel

Oh, Julia Child, you dear pink tomato. Your blushing beauty covers your spicy inside, tempting gardeners for decades.

Cherokee Chocolate, dark enchantress of the bunch. That Christmas colored skin of yours yields to a dark juicy flesh, dripping with sunlight transformed to sweetness.

Then there’s you, Rutgers. Your pleats, your bulbous inundations, inspire a thousand delicious thoughts.

(top) sweet 100, clint eastwood, cherokee chocolate, amish paste (bottom) julia child, rutgers, tomatillo

All together, you are a brothel of diversity, a color, size, and flavor for every preference.

Sliced raw, you bare your internal beauty, solid flesh giving way to juicy pulp and life renewing seeds. Your eclectic flavors and textures are inspirational, a summer sensual feast.

Tags: heirlooms, julia child, tomatoes

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Jenna / Mindful Menus / Chivetalkindotcom August 25, 2010 at 9:05 am

Just gorgeous!!!

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Porktastic August 25, 2010 at 10:38 am

Those look amazing! One of the best things about a garden is the tomatoes.

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carol August 25, 2010 at 12:16 pm

What gorgeous tomatoes. We only did Roma this year, maybe we’ll branch out next year.

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mindy August 25, 2010 at 12:44 pm

There’s a Clint Eastwood tomato? Huh, who said you cannot learn anything on a Wednesday!!
Your bounty looks delicious!

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Jaime August 25, 2010 at 3:41 pm

Beautiful tomatoes!! I keep telling my husband that I’m not going to know what to do when I run out of heirlooms from our garden! This is the first year I’ve ever enjoyed tomatoes raw or in salads and store-bought tomatoes are just NOT the same!!

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Nate @ House of Annie September 6, 2010 at 8:00 pm

“brothel of diversity” LOL

That Cherokee Chocolate is so enticing.

@Jaime – I hope you have enough tomatoes to freeze / preserve through the Winter!
Nate @ House of Annie´s last [type] ..Homemade Steamed Egg Tofu

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