Tomatoes, Tomatoes, Tomatoes ... Squash

It's becoming one of my favorite garden times; the tomatoes are starting to ripen and that means toasted tomato and mayo sandwiches – not bacon, lettuce and tomato; not bacon, lettuce, tomato and avocado; not lettuce and tomato but toasted tomato and mayo sandwiches end of story.

We had a lot of excitement in the neighborhood last weekend. A nasty storm blew through and we lost power on Saturday morning about 2am and didn't get it back until Sunday evening at about 6pm. It's amazing how much we rely on electricity; for coffee, hot water, microwave, cooking, cleaning, and of course those electronic devices that seem to have taken over our lives.

I'd like think I'm a pretty good sport when it comes to adversity; knowing that camping is not my thing (and yes I have tried it – but it doesn't seem to stick) I was in pretty good spirits on Saturday but when I woke up on Sunday and we still had no power I began to get irritated and cranky and yes a little snappy with the hubby.  But we made it through and now that the power is back I'm a happy camper again!

But I digress so back to sandwiches – toasted tomato and mayo sandwiches. You need to start out with dense grain bread with seeds, lots of seeds. We were at Costco a while ago and found a hearty grain bread with seeds so we purchased a couple of loaves and tossed them in freezer knowing tomato season would soon be upon us.

Tonight we toasted that delicious bread until it was crispy and brown then added mayo (not Miracle Whip), and thinly sliced tomatoes a couple grinds of sea salt and it was heaven. The simplicity of the sandwich was amazing you could taste every individual savory flavor. If you've never had a simple tomato and mayo sandwich you should give it a try, you'll wonder why you'd never tried it before.

On a side note – I've informed Dan that we are going to be "those people" the kind that leave squash on their neighbors step or wander around looking for cars with open windows to drop off a squash.

I planted 4 acorn squash plants and just came in from the garden and the official count for squash larger than 3 inches is 10 with about 15 – 20 smaller squash coming right behind them. Sometimes those new veggies work out better than you would expect - woot woot!

The rest of the garden is going well; harvested a large batch of sugar snap peas, some corn salad and leaf lettuce (just about done tho) the bok choy and swiss chard are close behind. The basil is coming along quite nicely and the carrots even though the *&^%$# bunny ate the fluffy green tops the veggie continues to get bigger so they'll definitely be fresh carrots.

My one disappointment is the green beans; the crazy rabbit got in there one too many times and helped him/herself to the flowers so our harvest has been pretty small.  Sigh – perhaps next year.

Thanks everyone for the comments, likes and personal notes – if you have a recipe to share please leave it in the comments!

Enjoy!