Heading to Memphis To Sing the Tomato Blues

{homegrown. hurley, ny}

Sometimes it's hard to let go of something. Like tomatoes. See the passing of tomato season means it's really fall. The season Greta was born in. Which means she's almost one. Not so much baby. Yes, still a baby, but no longer the tiny kind that fits in a pouch on your chest and goes with wherever you go without wiggling to get out and crawl and walk and, sigh, run ever more toward being a big girl. It means there's no more the first time she wiggled her toes in the sand or the first time she said Mama or the first tiny tomato she ever ate right off the vine.

{tomatoes irene. hurley, ny}

I got to thinking about all this tonight as I packed for Memphis, where Greta and I are headed bright and early in the morning to celebrate my dear, sweet Aunt Dorothy's 80th Birthday. I got to thinking we might need to sing a little tomato blues while we're down there. 

{food network kitchens. chelsea, ny}

In the meantime, I'm leaving you with this tomato retrospective and a few of my favorite fallish {is that a word?} tomato recipes to help you bid adieu to the summer's-over blues.

{lunch. porva, hungary}

Eight Outstanding Late-Season Tomato Recipes

The Kitchn's Three Cheese Tomato Tart

Saveur's Open-Faced Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

101 Cookbook's Spiced Tomato Gratin

Tomato Rice (Tamatar Biryani) from Food52

Sunday Supper's Roasted Eggplant, Tahini, Heirloom Tomato and Mint 

Shakshuka (Middle-Eastern Tomato and Baked Eggs) from Tasty n Sons, Portland

Roasted Tomato Soup with Herbed Croutons from Ann Gentry

Lisa Oz's Turkish Scrambled Eggs (Menemen)

{fallen. hurley, ny}