Tomatoes and Salt

How do you feel about salt? Are you cutting back? Well I'm not. I have a new love. It's name is Black Truffle Salt. Doesn't it sound amazing? Well it is. I got a little jar at an art show recently. I could eat it straight from the jar.

Now as much as I would love to just eat it straight I know better. And I have some amazing tomatoes from my mother's garden. So a little mozzarella and sliced tomatoes make a great meal to sprinkle this salt on. They really remind me of childhood summers.
When I was young, maybe 10 or 11, I used to run away. It was the normal, run away to the end of the block, pout, come home. One day I didn't even make it to the corner. I stopped to pout about half way there. I walked up someone's driveway and sat down on the strip of grass he has be his side door. This sweet old man came out to see why this kid was sitting in his driveway with her wagon. When he saw it was me, we all ran around the block enough that everyone knew us, He asked me one question. "So did you run away?" I told him I had. All he said then was "well you will need some food then" and went back inside. When he came out again he was carrying a plate of tomato slices. He grew them in his back yard. All he had done was cut up the tomato and sprinkled sugar on them. They were amazing. I ate a whole plate of them sitting on his driveway. I went home after that since I wasn't mad anymore. They are still the best tomatoes I've ever had. Those tomatoes from a kind old man to a pouty girl sitting on his driveway with her wagon trying to run away.

hugs and kisses
mce