Tangled Branches: Cultivated
happenings in and around my zone 6b gardens in northern Virginia and in central Virginia
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Tomato Tasting: Virginia Sweets
OK, this won't be a detailed review like the last one, but we really liked the large 'Virginia Sweets' tomato which was the subject of the previous post.
Without doing a direct comparison, I'd say the flavor is similar to 'Kellogg's Breakfast', but with this one you get all the pretty yellow/red variegation to look at too. I cut a slice off the blossom end and took a bite. Wow, you have to taste this, I said to the spouse. He agreed it was good, but then he never gets as excited about these things as I do.
For lunch, we had Indian Railways Omelet Sandwiches with one slice apiece from this tomato on no-knead sourdough bread. Those two slices were plenty; I had to cut each in half to get them to fit on the bread. In fact, the tomato was too big for my Warther Tomato Knife to slice through it in one go.
Virginia Sweets will definitely be invited back next year.
Labels: tomatoes
2 Comments:
The colors are nice. Love that pic below of the tomato on the scale.
MBT: I'm hoping for more red streaks in some of the Virginia Sweets tomatoes that are ripening now. They're all good sized, but that was the biggest.
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