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.
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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 […]