I’m personally not a big fan of many of the heirloom varieties. I find a lot of them to be mealy, even home-grown ones from friends’ gardens that are supposedly perfect specimens.
I love those little yellow cherry tomatoes. Like eating candy!
Tomato sandwiches…have to be on Wonder Bread type white bread…with mayo! Yum yum yum!
@nottelling I have a feeling that these heirlooms I bought are going to turn out mealy and I’ll have wasted my $ but wanted to give them a try. Honestly, I’ve had a few good tomatoes this summer but they haven’t been WOW yet. It is difficult to find the tomatoes I grew up with. Chatting with the farmers today they said it wasn’t a good tomato year locally. I’ve heard that the past 3 years though.
Big tomatoes are at their biggest in the first burst of the season. They get a bit smaller as the season goes on.
Mealy tomatoes make me think of those that have been refrigerated. I don’t think I’ve ever had a mealy tomato that was grown outside during its proper season. I didn’t buy any today because the ones I saw were slightly speckled and very hard.
At the farmers market, they were probably picked just before being ripe so let them finish ripening at room temperature on your kitchen counter.
The hard speckled ones seem beyond hope to me. I didn’t think they would finish ripening properly.
@thumper1 you had me until “gorgonzola”. :-&
Well…you could use a different cheese. @MotherOfDragons
I made the “one minute tomato sandwich” in post #48 tonight - omg, amazing! The butter, salt and honey with the tomato - I could have eaten the same sandwich 3 times! (it is open faced) You need to try it!
I don’t have any tomatoes and I ate a HUGE lunch so my dinner is a radish sandwich — really good baguette, butter, a pile of thinly sliced radishes and lots of salt. Am I the only one that eats these??? Sometimes I like living alone.
(Believe me, if I had a good tomato, I would be going in that direction).
I got a yellow heirloom tomato (not sure of the name) and it was DEE LISH! We make BLT’s with Toasting Bread (white bread but firmer than Wonder Bread), sourdough, or Asiago Cheese bread from Panera. We also enjoy Caprese style snacks with a slice of fresh mozzarella, a slice of tomato and snipped basil on baguette slices.
Another great thing drizzled on tomatoes is balsamic glaze. It’s sweeter and more concentrated than straight balsamic vinegar. Trader Joe’s sells it in a small bottle called Glaze and it couldn’t be easier to use!
Grew Azychoka last year. Not bad but not quite sweet enough for me. I really enjoyed Husky Cherry but I guess, based on consumption, my favorite tomato is plum or San Marzano.
Off topic. But I put fresh bread, cheese, and tomatoes slices into toaster oven. Took the pineapple I just picked, planted the roots, then cleaned it off, cut into pieces, and put into container. Covered with vodka.
So, for tonight, I have open face grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches, and in a week, vodka infused pineapple.
Or pineapple infused vodka. 
BLTs on sourdough for dinner tonight in my house.