Tomatoes 'A Plenty

Each afternoon we go out to the rows of tomatoes and do some picking.  We have a number of heirloom varieties planted.  It is a decent, but not stellar year.  After the deluge of rainfall, some of the tomatoes gave up the ghost and shriveled and died.  Others slowed, but continued to produce.  Some you're gonna win, Some you're gonna lose, Some are gonna get rained out, as they say.

We have Black Krim, Black Vernissage, Cherokee Purple, Roma, Creole, Pink Brandywine, Big Rainbow, Thessaloniki, and a few other varieties planted that slip my mind right now.  So far, the stink bugs haven't been as bad as in prior years, but we have had some worm issues.

We pick what we can and make homemade salsa, and Italian tomato salad, dried tomatoes.  We plan to can a bunch of stewed tomatoes.  I've had the envie for homemade garden fresh pizzas.  We'll use some creole tomatoes for that.  There's only four of those pictured below, but we had a bunch more.

The better half cuts them up to ready for topping.  In the meantime, she's made some crusts.

The basil is producing nicely so she slices some of that up with some mozzarella pearls.

The fresh crust is brushed with some pesto that we made and froze from last year's basil crop.  So good!

She sprinkles some fresh frozen sweet corn from last year over that and then arranges the sliced creole tomatoes and mozzarella pearls over the top.

Pop in the oven and slice and serve.  We learned to wait until out of the oven to sprinkle sliced basil over the top as basil loses its green color and turns black and unappetizing.  In the photo below, we hadn't topped with basil yet.

I didn't get a final photo as we immediately began eating and didn't stop until it was mostly gone!