to the extent he eats it almost every morning.

One joy of southern living is a long tomato season.....

not shelf live and it shows.

We have a friend who turned a 10 acre pasture into organic garden, and we are the recipient of most of her goodies from it.
She loves to grow the heirlooms. Dose a great job, too.

I had a corner cafe that had the best sourdough baguette you could get way back 30 years ago and I still miss them.

I'll tell you the truth--one of my favorite quick sandwiches is a bagel, cream cheese, tomato and provolone or swiss. Microwaved for a minute or two. Really good if you get a full flavored provolone like BelGioioso.

I envy you if you still have real tomatoes this time of year. The days of slicing up a plate of tomatoes for breakfast because they are so delicious seem gone to me, even in high summer. My farmer's market has a decent tomato in summer but still a thicker skin then is necessary.

I'll say, slip in some cream cheese one day, heated or not, it is always a treat.

We don't have tomatoes all year round here, I live about 100 miles too far north for that.
But...we DID have fresh picked heirloom tomatoes from my friend's garden in mid-Nov......because of the unnatural high temps this year.
In our off season, we buy Roma tomatoes....they are nice and firm and taste better than the square Frankenstein offerings.

More consistent than the other winter varieties. The Ugly brand are usually good but are also top dollar.

will be a special treat with heirloom tomatoes. And yes, a bit of extra virgin olive oil. You won't be sorry.

I always forget about them when I'm in the supermarket but they have such a nice flavor.

I only get them in wanton soup. I have an easy, good leek soup recipe too but just never think about actually making it. I always just grab a "sweet" onion and go on my way.

Thanks for reminding me.

Vichyssoise is basically my Leek soup recipe but I would eat it hot. Cold soup is just not my favorite.

Gazpacho has all the ingredients that I like but I just can't get past the cold part. I think I just hate tomato juice and V8 type things. Hot tomato based products are fine but don't like them cold. I do like Pace picante sauce once in a while, on tacos or tortilla chips.

and serve it cold. It tastes much different than you would imagine. You only use the white part of the leek. Love tomato soup hot yes. But found out a few years ago that it is loaded with sugar.

2 tablespoon of butter
2-4 leeks (white part only) cut in half inch lengths
1 box of Knorr's Leek soup mix
1 can cream of potato soup
2 cups milk
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 cup fresh chives chopped

Melt butter in 3 qrt, pan
Add Leek and cook until tender but not brown.
Add soups and milk. Heat for five minutes.
Garnish with Chives.

Surprisingly good for a five minute preparation.

Except I use real potatoes....but your recipe is good.

Our limited grocery options do not carry Knorr's..I finally found a source online and the day the package arrived, I was able to make potato soup again...it was marvelous!!!!

Or relegated to an occassional cardboard shipper sitting in the aisle.

My supermarket just had an end display of Knorr's side dishes. I don't know who owns them now and it might be crap but I got a packet of fettuccine with mushroom (flavored) sauce.

If it is decent I'll let you know.