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With tomato salads, tomato sauces and tomato salsas to be had, theres a good many things to make with the bounty of summer tomatoes. But all those recipes pale in comparison to the tomato sandwich (of which you should be eating at least one a day during the month of August). This is not a sandwich with tomato in it, but a sandwich made of nothing more than summers sweetest fruit. Thick, summer-ripe tomato slices and white sandwich bread (with mayo, of course). Thats it.
Blackberry Farms master gardener John Coykendall, a genius on the topic of heirloom tomatoes, shared the secret to building the best tomato sandwich: To me theres one requirement. Of course you have to have tons of mayonnaise and salt and pepper, but the true requirement is you have to have that old, cheap, white bread. The kind you wouldnt ordinarily touch in your daily life. Its the one thing that it was created for, tomato sandwiches. You stand over the sink [eating it] and it runs like Niagara falls its wonderful.
As a certifiable tomatoholic, I concur!
There is nothing on this blessed planet better than a REAL tomato sangie!
I’m down to less than 10 quarts of the 400 lbs I canned last fall.
Summer can’t come soon enough!