The taste of summer

I had a new sandwich recipe to try this week, but decided to go with an old standby.  In fact, I'd be happy eating this sandwich every day until the tomato plants have exhausted themselves.

Tonight's feature:

Not a great picture and not an attractive tomato. I can't recall the variety and now it's too dark to go outside and look. But, cut it open and you get this:

Gorgeous!

With a tomato like this to work with, TLTs (tempeh, lettuce and tomato) sandwiches are the obvious choice. I make my own tempeh bacon (previously covered on this blog, probably more than once), recipe here. Thin sandwich bun, garden tomato, Vegenaise and some lettuce. Heaven.

Grilled green beans and grilled corn on the side.

Meals like this are solace for yet ANOTHER week of temps in the 90's. In the spirit of willing the arrival of fall, I bought this today:

Just trying to give Mother Nature a bit of prompting to bring on my favorite season of the year.