I love Panzanella! And my favorite Summer food ever since I was a kid, has always been just sliced tomatoes on toast, with lots of Mayonnaise, salt, pepper - LOTS of pepper!
I don’t get the kinds of eating tomatoes now that I did when I was a kid; but that sandwich is great even with the ‘maters from the supermarket; and I often eat it in Winter, with the hothouse tomatoes :-)
My favorite summer food as a kid was tomatoes, lettuce, a lot of butter and Catalina dressing on white bread!
To this day each of my sandwiches have some kind of dressing on them. Ham, Honey mustard. Turkey, 1000 island. Beef, Blue Cheese. Except Bologna or Oscar Mayer liverwurst. They get Miracle whip. And BLT’s, Mayo (Dukes).
Winter, I buy Camparis. As kid’s our job was to tend dad’s garden. Tomatoes from heaven. Never have eaten heirlooms. You got me thinkin. Think I’ll try to find some farm stand ones this weekend. LOL! Thx!