Enjoy the bounty and beauty of local heirloom tomatoes
this week!
These aren’t your grandma’s tomatoes…no, wait, maybe they are. Heirloom tomatoes are ripening full throttle this week, in all the colors of the rainbow (and several the rainbow mightn’t have imagined). We’ll be juicing, jamming and slicing to get the most from these delicious jewels of summer all week long. Stop in to get your fresh, local, delectable heirloom fix…
Blue Plate Special: Wednesday, August 5
Local lamb and beef gyros with tzatziki, heirloom tomato and housemade pita
Eat your Heirlooms: First Friday, August 7
- Spicy Brandywine Mary: plymouth gin, fresh-pressed tomato juice, all the fixins’
- Golden Brandywine tomato gazpacho with sweet corn and grilled jalapeno
- Sliced heirloom tomatoes with basil, crumbled feta and fried spicy peppers, drizzled with extra virgin olive oil
- Grilled Misty Mountain Farm delmonico over sliced Cherokee Purple tomatoes, finished with a roasted garlic-tarragon butter, served with roasted sweet corn pudding
- Tomato jam-hazelnut tart topped with homemade peach ice cream
Plus! We’ll be giving away our very cute Herdic t-shirts (modeled by the lovely Lena Yeagle) on Friday night. We’ll post a trivia question to Facebook on Friday morning. The first five folks to come in Friday night with the answer, will leave with one of these…