2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 260 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 106 remain. Today's Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants clockwise from upper left: Old German, Black Brandywine, Elgin Pink, and Ananas Noire.

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Backdoor:

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Sliced (using the patented @Mark_Thompson method; THICK CUT!), what fresh, gleaming color, am I right:

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Bring It!

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The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Man what a spread!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 267 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, and the 1st of the Fall, 99 days remain. The Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants are clockwise from upper left Hillbilly, Radiator Charlie Mortgage Lifter, Zapotec Oaxacan, and Greenbush Italian, with Ananas Noire anchoring the middle:

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Under over:

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Sliced glistening red goodness, from left: ZO, RCML, GI, and Hillbilly

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Dig in time:

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The last of this season's Ananas Noire (the lovely and long-suffering Mrs. Gotch fave!) provides her with a well earned/deserved OFer (Open Facer)

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The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Had our second annual BLT Party and Tomato Tasting. This one was scaled way back due to my tomato partner up the hill expecting his first baby soon. Also we both had pretty serious losses due to the rain. Still a good time had by all in attendance. The Temu tomato (tomatoe?) shirt I got for junior was also on point. Dessert was Costco avocado ice cream with tomato jam on top and no one liked it I’ll make another thread for the tomato tasting so as not to derail this one and end up on the Gotch’s bad side…

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Shoot @Mark_Thompson, The Gotch has a "bad side?"? News to him...

PRIMO spread! The de rigueur Kozzied Beverage to the upper right's for the hardworking host, one might presume.

Nice selection of breads, and could you ever have too much bacon? Not with a Bacon Dip failsafe/backstop, am I right?

Anywho, please list the varieties; they all look firm, fresh, inviting, rarin' to please, and superbly arrayed with yer signature Butcher Block Thick Cut approach.

The très properly attired Junior is apprenticin' with a pro, a spectacular example of passing along generational Tomato acumen!

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

My tomatoes for the sammies were Sart Roloise and of course, Guido. My friend mostly grows weird Eastern European varieties, so I never remember what kind he brings.
Drank all my Miller Lites while cooking and cleaning, had to switch to the tall can of cider that’s hiding in that coozie there.
We had seven little ones in attendance from 14 months up to 12 years, all girls, made them go run around the yard while the “grown ups” got our tasting in.
Need to have a talk with the weather gods, if we can get a dry summer next year then our third annual will be quite the bash. You’re all invited!

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 274 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT! (last day of the 3rd Quarter, we're rounding third and heading for home!), 92 remain.

Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants, clockwise from top left: Old German, Pink Gift, KY Beefsteak, & Zapotec Oaxacan:

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Flip Side:

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Fresh sliced Heirloom Tomatoes never fail to take my breath away...'specially when I do the cutting:

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Showtime:

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Old German and ZO were the primo tasty ones, the other two (2) were pleasant-n-mild.

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Maruba Santoh, Pink Gift, and homemade almost bacon (cured the pork but didn’t have time to smoke so cooked in the oven) Gotta h/t @Cornelius_Gotchberg on the fruit, might be my last big slicer of the season.

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Gotta h/t @Cornelius_Gotchberg on the fruit, might be my last big slicer of the season.

Yer too kind. The seeds for that there Pink Gift came from Bulgaria. I invite viewers to click on the pic, and then enlarge it, to take in the majestically meaty firmness of those slices.

The Gotch sees images like that and he doesn't even want to dig in...he just wants to lust after its magnificence!

The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 281 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 85 days remain. Today's participants for Monday Morning BLT Brunch from left: Orange Accordion, Namio Heirloom, and Young Strickler Cross:

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Under over:

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Sliced, the Namio Heirloom is savaged because I saved seed. The Young Strickler Cross is sliced the anti@Tormato way (top to bottom) and the pro@Mark_Thompson way (thick_as_a_brick!) But just look at that there Meaty Fruit!

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Dinner...er...Brunch Bell. The OA is a little on the bland side, but Mayo picks it up. The Namio has a classic Tomatey taste, just like that there firm YS Cross

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The Gotch

[Tormahto]

Day 281 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 85 days remain. Today's participants for Monday Morning BLT Brunch from left: Orange Accordion, Namio Heirloom, and Young Strickler Cross:
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Under over:
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Sliced, the Namio Heirloom is savaged because I saved seed. The Young Strickler Cross is sliced the anti@Tormato way (top to bottom) and the pro@Mark_Thompson way (thick_as_a_brick!) But just look at that there Meaty Fruit!
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Dinner...er...Brunch Bell. The OA is a little on the bland side, but Mayo picks it up. The Namio has a classic Tomatey taste, just like that there firm YS Cross
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The Gotch

Top to bottom slicing is too variable. On the same tomato, if it was sliced through the flesh, or if it was sliced through the locules, you'd have two vastly different pictures. Slicing through the equator always gives the full picture of how much of the tomato is flesh and how much is locules.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

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The Gotch

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 288 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 78 remain. Monday Morning BLT Brunch participants, clockwise from top left: Maui Sutherland Domingo Cross/MSDC (seed H/T the divine @MissS), Lemonboy Plus F1, ?, KY Beefsteak.

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Astern:

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Sliced:

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COME_N_GET_IT:

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? was a little off/kinda sour, but the MSDC was Tomatoey, tasty, and wondrously firm with regrettably too few seeds, though some were salvaged. Lemonboy & KY Beefsteak are always good.

The Gotch

[Mark_Thompson]

Last of the bacon went to junior, the things we do for our kids huh. Had to settle for char siu pork. Momotaro was the fruit, late straggler on the dead summer plants.

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[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Day 297 of 2024 Leap Year Of The BLT!, 68 remain.

Monday Morning BLT Brunch was moved to Wednesday evening due to the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch visiting family. Regrettably, the 2024 crop is rapidly thinning out; todays participants left to right: Lemonboy Plus F1, ?, Old German.

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Back drop:

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Sliced, still shimmering-n-purdy in late October:

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Finito:

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For whatever reason (wrong time-slot, etc.) and despite the best efforts of the lovely and long suffering Mrs. Gotch, this installment was just above average.

The Gotch

[MissS]

Get used to the subpar tomatoes. When ripened indoors, they just don't reach their potential. Next step down is store bought tomatoes. Sigh... it comes too soon.

[worth1]

Get used to the subpar tomatoes. When ripened indoors, they just don't reach their potential. Next step down is store bought tomatoes. Sigh... it comes too soon.

The large store bought tomatoes here in Texas have a hard woody core running down the middle.
I can't see how people buy or eat them.
I'm forcing myself to eat one of those things and I start getting little stickers stuck in my mouth and teeth form the hard fiber.

[MissS]

Get used to the subpar tomatoes. When ripened indoors, they just don't reach their potential. Next step down is store bought tomatoes. Sigh... it comes too soon.

The large store bought tomatoes here in Texas have a hard woody core running down the middle.
I can't see how people buy or eat them.
I'm forcing myself to eat one of those things and I start getting little stickers stuck in my mouth and teeth form the hard fiber.

No more BLT's for me until next year. I use red bell peppers to add color to my salads over the winter. If I buy a tomato during the off season it is a Flavor Bomb or a Campari from Costco. They are far better than what a grocery store has to offer but not as good as an heirloom from the garden.

[Cornelius_Gotchberg]

Get used to the subpar tomatoes.

Yup.

When ripened indoors, they just don't reach their potential.

In my best Johnny Carson voice: "I did not know that."

Next step down is store bought tomatoes.

Groan! Glass half full?

I've secured a "source" for off-season vine-ripened Heirlooms.

Sigh... it comes too soon.

Yup, 2.0. Glass half empty.

The time to tap that "source" is fast-approaching.

The Gotch