Fresh Tomato Tart

After my morning trip to the Farmers’ Market and seeing the bountiful array of tomatoes, I decided today was a great day to make a Fresh Tomato Tart. You can serve this tart warm or at room temperature. A perfect recipe to highlight the bounty of garden fresh tomatoes currently available.

Heirloom Tomato, Peach and Burrata Salad

We recently had lunch at a wonderful new French restaurant in Georgetown in Washington, DC.  On the menu they had an heirloom tomato salad with burrata.  If you not not familiar with burrata cheese, it is a fresh Italian cheese made from mozzarella and cream. The outer shell is solid mozzarella, while the inside has […]

Rigatoni with Fresh Burrata

This week has been a week of farmers market finds.  I purchased 7 oz. of fresh Burrata Cheese from a local cheese company, assorted heirloom cherry tomatoes and fresh basil.  Burrata is a fresh Italian cheese; basically a ball formed from Mozzarella filled with fresh cheese and/or cream.  When you cut it open, the wonderful […]

Tomato Compote

One more tomato recipe to add your favorites.  This week at the Farmer’s Market I purchased an assorted box of heirloom tomatoes, various sizes and colors.  With a steak ready to be grilled, I wanted to create something with these beautiful tomatoes to complement our grilled steak.  I simply sliced the tomatoes, drizzled them with […]

Heirloom Tomato Salad

I think I have mentioned before that I am a true lover of tomatoes and I could eat them every day.  Well, for a tomato lover there is no better time in the year than in the summer when heirloom tomatoes are abundant at the local farmers markets.  The flavor of fresh-off the vine tomatoes […]