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  I used up some of those delicious tomatoes that I bought last week in a tasty salad built just for two (or three if you are not a big salad eater.)   These tomatoes are amazing and I don't want any to go to waste. Like my mother I store my tomatoes in a bowl at room temperature.  There is nothing to ruin the flavour of fresh tomatoes more than to store them in the refrigerator.   Like pears, tomatoes are a fruit that continue to ripen as they sit out.  Most of the ones you buy in the shops have been picked before they are totally ripe, which gives us more time to get them to the shops and into our homes.    Leaving them at room temperature in a bowl helps them to acheive their maxiumum flavour potention.  Although admittedly at certain times of the year there is just not a lot you can do to  make them taste better.   These ones I got last week are amazing however.  Fresh from the Isle of Wight and The Tomato Stall.  It must b...

   I really love tomatoes as I think I have told you in the past.   They are quite simply one of my favourite things.  For months and months now I have seen other food bloggers being gifted with boxes of beautiful boxes of rich and delicious looking tomatoes from The Tomato Stall , on the Isle of Wight. .  Finally I couldn't stand it anymore. lask week I decided that Todd and I deserved a bit of a splurge after being stuck in our home on lockdown for the past 10 weeks. I bit the bullet and ordered us a mixed family box.    I think it is just amazing that we live in a day and an age where something like this, grown and harvested on the Isle of Wight, can be picked on one day and then be sitting on my dining room table the next.  They are absolutely beautiful, and arrived undamaged except for one which was slightly squashed. I ate that right away like an apple, lightly sprinkled with sea salt.  Oh boy was it ever good!!  I was not sor...