Posts tagged with ‘peppers’

  • Aug092016

    heirloom tomato salad

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    When I told my husband I wasn’t really sure what I was going to write about in this post (besides for bragging on the health benefits of the ingredients), he said, “tell them that heirloom tomatoes are the best and the tomatoes we grew up on are just no good.” He’s right, and we hate to break it to you, but if you’ve never had an heirloom tomato, you’ve never tasted a real tomato. The flavor has been bred out of conventional tomatoes and the texture is awful; they’re bred for easy harvesting, shipping, and shelf life. Besides for being wildly beautiful, heirloom tomatoes have a wide variety of flavors and levels of acidity. These subtle differences are what make heirloom tomatoes so much better!

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