2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 20 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 345 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch selections are a coupla Heirloom Reddy -n- Yeller, from Metro Market via Sunset Grown/greenhousegrown.ca (https://www.sunsetgrown.com/our-produce/tomatoes/)

Funniest thing, half the Yeller went juicy/weeping/squishy overnight which required excising the bad part:

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Bottoms up (the bad part evident):

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Sliced:

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And ready for delicious; both had the nice, blended "Tomatoey Taste" always welcome on a Sub Zero morning:

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 27 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 338 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice ribbed Pinky and a Bi-Color wannabe, both pleasantly firm from Metro Market:

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Under/Over:

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Sliced; is that glistening goodness, or what:

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And plated:

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Both had a very pleasantly mild flavor, and "al dente" texture

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 34 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 331 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice Purple and Reddy Yeller Bi-color from Metro Market:

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Rear View:

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Thick-Sliced (per the patented @Mark_Thompson method), and displaying dazzling shininess:

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And plated:

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The Reddy-Yeller had a nice balanced taste, tending toward tart, the Purple was near perfect, robust ripeness.

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

The storebought tomatoes you can get up there are next level. Jealous.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

The storebought tomatoes you can get up there are next level. Jealous.

Yep, $3.49/lb! And Woodman's hasn't even started stocking their vine-ripened Heirlooms, yet.

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 41 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 324 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are a nice Bi-Color and a Yeller, courtesy of Metro Market and supplied by greenhousegrown.ca:

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Upside down:

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Sliced, the blurriness doesn't accurately depict their loveliness:

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And ready for delicious; The Bi-Color was tasty, fragrant, & firm, while the Yeller had a nice sweetness goin' on. The lettuce was superbly crunchy:

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The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Started curing some B today, got a garden full of L, serious T shortage though

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Started curing some B today, got a garden full of L, SERIOUS T SHORTAGE THOUGH (bolds/caps/italics mine)

With a climate like yers, this, I'll never get!

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

They're Baaaaaaack! The Woodman's vine-ripened Heirlooms, courtesy of Del Campo Reserve/Mexico, and available at (@Mark_Thompson sit down before reading) the unheard of price of $1.29/lb:

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There must've been over 15 cases, and while there was great variety, many were overripe and wouldn't have lasted until Monday Morning BLT Brunch:

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But it was necessary to spend ~ five (5) minutes digging through for some real beauties, and come up with these:

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The bottom two (2) were bequeathed, along with a Waltham Butternut Squarsh, to fellow TJ pal @bboomer.

To find out where those up top end up; stay tuned!

The Gtoch

[bboomer]

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Both were fantastic!! Unfortunately, but the time I got to Woodmans, the following day, the tomatoes on display took a turn for the worst. They were either picked through or hit their expiration date.
Fear not! Summer is only months away.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Magnificent lookin' spread, there, @bboomer, the Squarsh appears especially well-tended-n-tender; its planter is très flattered!

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 48 of 2025-21st Century Silver Jubilee Year Of The BLT!, 317 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are from Preferred Tomato Provider Woodman's (1st of the year!). A nice Bi-Color Yeller Reddy, and Green Shouldered Purple:

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Round back:

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Readied with the patented @Mark_Thompson Thick Slicing©™® technique:

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And plated:

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From cuttin' 'em up to chowin' 'em down, ain't nothin' quite the smell-n-taste of a freshly sliced, vine-ripened, Heirloom Tomato when it's hovering around 0°F/-18C° outside.

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[Mark_Thompson]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg Ridiculous, that’s pretty much free! Free beautiful heirlooms in the middle of winter. I’m moving.

Got my bacon smoked, now waiting on a slicer to ripen. Hopefully shouldn’t be long now.

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Got my bacon smoked, now waiting on a slicer to ripen. Hopefully shouldn’t be long now.

Which Tomato is that there in the Batter's Box?

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

@Cornelius_Gotchberg It’s one of Herr Sutherland’s alleged big boys. Last one on that plant hit one pound but had a punky spot so provided exactly zero BLTs. Fingers crossed on this one.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

It’s one of Herr Sutherland’s alleged big boys.

The JUST Sutherland, or the Maui Sutherland Competition seed?

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