The Food Network had the audacity (I kid you not) to air an episode of the Barefoot Contessa in which she makes a “scalloped” dish using bread cubes garlic basil parmesan cheese and the most summery mustard-tastes-like-heaven-thanks-for-rubbing-it-in-the-men tomatoes in the winter when there was absolutely nothing I could do to get this dish into my kitchen. It wasn’t fair. It felt downright mean. For people who love summer tomatoes as much as I do—people who avoid them in the off-season when they’re tomatoes in name only—to be reminded of something as impossibly remote as the idea that there are days in the summer so hot that we actually yearn for the kind of weather that requires Gore-Tex and hot chocolate. It’s just crazy talk.
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One-Pan Farro with Tomatoes | Smitten Kitchen with Deb Perelman
Well that day is today. Seriously every time I go to the market this miserable July I’m so hot I’m almost dizzy (do I remember my water bottle? Of course not. Do I feel like a tool for whining about the heat while partying all day with people working in the fields? Um yeah.) and I can’t remember a single thing I was planning on buying because the sun is like it’s blistering my brain and oh look! Tomatoes! Ah summer that’s why I’m keeping you around.
I remembered this though: buy tomatoes in bulk. Buy a little basil. Buy a loaf of bread. Go home. Make it happen. I haven’t forgotten you Ina and your charming barn kitchen witty friends shell tomatoes. I sliced and diced and fried and chopped and even turned on the oven and proceeded to have the best lunch I’ve had all summer. I’m literally about to walk back to the kitchen to get some more. Yes I know it’s 4pm and I might ruin my dinner but I don’t care. If there was even a hint of tomato in it it would have been ruined anyway; it would never compare. Fellow (and future) tomato addicts come on down below to get your fix.
PS Leftovers from weekend morning? Try this with a poached egg on top.
