Well, here it is again!!!  The recipe is pretty much the same, but there are reasons to bring it back.  First, this way, it keeps coming up.  Secondly, it’s just so good, it’s tough to post it too often.  Thirdly, Nika’s great looking tomatoes made me start jonesing for the last of this year’s tomatoes.  You’ve got to see them; they’re gorgeous, as tomatoes go.  In the time since I moved out of town to the country, and we found an old couple that grows great tomatoes, our tomato usage has gone up, but since tomato pie, it’s gone up even more!

I have one basic theory about tomatoes…

Local, ripe tomatoes are a gift from God.  He’s basically saying, "Night’s will get a bit cooler… Grab the salt and enjoy My best for you!"  Ok, He doesn’t tell me to grab the salt; I already know to do that.

On the other hand, hot-house tomatoes, grown out of season and sold all year, are of the Devil, and no one can convince me otherwise!  I can almost see Satan personally breathing a bit of evil into each of those plants that look so diabolically similar to the heavenly tomatoes of summer.

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