Happy Place, Happy Space
No heritage tomatoes this week,
Instead, a huge bag of delectable cherry tomatoes.
I look forward to my almost weekly Surprise Bundle from UglyFood, my small but delicious contribution to reducing food waste.
Not what I expected (we enjoyed heritage tomotoes in our bundles two weeks in a row), but I immediately dream of a cherry tomato galette. Happy thoughts. Any thoughts of what else should go into this galette?
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Reading your Joyful Posts brings me to my happy place. I hope having them in one place makes it easier for you to find when you need a bit of happy therapy, too.
If you would like to join in, ping back to this post and I will include you next week.
- Carol Ann Siciliano‘s Delights: relishes beach and family time
- Deb’s World’s Cover me in sunshine: brings us several bursts of sunshine
- Gary Wilson‘s Kneading a Good Friend: helps two young friends towards that first date (at some hilarious cost to himself)
- Jo at AndAnyway‘s Whale Watching – Pacific Whale Foundation: spends time with humpback whales
- Laurie Grave‘s Drinks on the patio: makes merry on the patio with good eats & assorted critters
- Maria at GreenDream‘s Weekend Coffee Share: starts back at school with 5 year olds obsessed with dinosaurs
- Marsha at Always Write‘s Miniature Tudor Village: tours a delightful miniature village
- Natalie the Explorer‘s Walk the Fleur de Villes Trail: treats us to a rose-themed showcase
- Thistles and Kiwis’This Week’s Small Pleasures: rustles up cat-shaped cookies for a bake sale
- Trent’s World‘s The Weekly Smile: relishes summer joys
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There are plenty of tomatoes in the bag, even after my galette is made & demolished: any other suggestions for this lovely bag of cherry tomatoes?
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This post is my contribution to
- Weekend Coffee Share hosted by NatalieTheExplorer
- Eat Around the World hosted by Julie at LiveEatPlay
Touring My Backyard 
I echo Sandy. The tomato + feta + garlic pasta dish is a regular at our house. So easy and so yummy. Everything enriches everything else! (Makes me think of your commenters, Ju-Lyn!)
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It’s on the to-make list! I got the feta cheese in preparation, and funnily, ran out of cherry tomatoes. So, it’s back to the store!
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I can practically taste those tomatoes- they look so fresh & delicious!! Cherry tomato galette- wow, that sounds delicious! Do you have a recipe for that by chance? Thanks for sharing, Ju-Lyn!
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Hee hee! Sorry, Mack, I didn’t use a recipe for the galette. I kinda mixed and matched different ideas from various recipes I’ve read
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You are incredible with cooking!!! I wouldn’t even know where to begin without a recipe- that amazes me!
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I think that’s the rebel in me … just always have to fiddle with a prescription. I usually will start with a recipe, or a photograph, or a taste. Sometimes it’s more challenging to get where I want to be with a dish.
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I love that!! And the challenge is part of the fun, right?!
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Those tomatoes look delicious. I like them in a colorful Caprese salad with a bit of mozzarella chunks, fresh basil and an olive oil and balsamic vinegar glaze. Thanks for including me in your link-up.
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Yum yum! Colourful for the eyes & the taste buds!
You are most welcome in this space, Marsha!
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Thank you again, Ju-Lyn. 🙂
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Cherry tomatoes are great in any dish. A simple salad with cucumber is delish for a hot summer day.
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That does sounds refreshing! And yes, I agree – they are quite rather good in anything they land in!
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I always have some of these little beauties on my kitchen counter – ready to snack on or add to a recipe!
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Healthy, delicious snack!
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They look so tasty! 😊
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They looks rather good but am afraid not as great as those of our BlogFriends who are eating them off the vine. They do improve with roasting and cooking though – heat seems to bring out their deliciousness!
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A local farm delivers a small package of produce to us each week, and it is tomato season, with many different types 🙂 No suggestions, but enjoy your “ugly” food!
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I love it that you are able to enjoy seasonal produce with your farm delivery! One of the reasons I enjoy my Surprise bundles so much – except “the season” here is whatever is in access.
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Hi Ju-Lyn.
Thanks for sharing out my story above. Such fun memories!
About those cherry tomatoes, I love tomatoes in almost any form, but one of my favorites right off the vine is to just pop them into my mouth for a great treat. These really are almost as tasty as hard candy.
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I can imagine that these delectable fruit would taste so different off the vine than what we get at the supermarket! An experience I have yet to enjoy.
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I wish there were a way to share some of what we have in multiple baskets. You are unlikely to ever find plums like this in any store because they are too fragile and don’t tolerate much handling. You need to find a tree (and presumably its owner). A peer blogger from Scotland has recommended I slice them open, dash on some brandy and lightly BBQ them. But I can’t see this working because as soon as the skin is broken open, so much of the juice is lost and the ‘meat’ of the fruit is the opposite of firm. Maybe my wife and I can find a way to bake a few as as experiment.
I hope you get a chance to try them. You clearly have the taste to enjoy such things and I can’t but see you enjoying tree fresh plums.
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You are absolutely right! Tree-fresh anything is not a common experience for me. It all sounds so mysterious and delightful! Appreciate your taking me on this journey, even if for a while!
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Love love love cherry tomatoes. This recipe is one of my faves https://thehappyfoodie.co.uk/recipes/ottolenghis-hot-charred-cherry-tomatoes-with-cold-yoghurt
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That looks so delicious, Jo! I have the tomatoes, Greek yogurt … No cumin seeds – I wonder if mustard seeds will do. And I have a variety of chilli flakes, as well as the other ingredients. I could make this happen! Thank you so much for the link!
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Your veggies look great. Thank you for the mention and for linking up with #weekendcoffeeshare.
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Thanks for popping in to delight with my veggies, Natalie!
And thank you for hosting the Weekend Beverages & Chat!
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I just love eating cherry tomatoes as they are! Thanks again for including me 🙂
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I guess they are fruit after all!
Most welcome as always, Debbie!
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They look lovely! Thanks for the mention.
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Appreciate your sharing in my delight, fellow vegetable lover!
Most welcome in this space as always!
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Cherry tomatoes are lovely! We have 8 big cherry tomato plants at our balcony at the moment. They have blessed as with a big harvest so far. However, come evening there are never any cherry tomatoes left, no matter how big the harvest is. The whole family LOVES to snack on them, and they tend to disappear. Thank you for the pingback. I’d love to see what you end up doing with your tomatoes 🙂
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Your balcony must be huge to support so many fruiting plants! So you eat as you pick? Fantastic!
You are most welcome in this space!
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Thank you, yes it’s 180sqf, and when the cooler months arrives I have glass panels to screen it in with, turning it into a green house. I live in a passive house.
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Woo hoo! that is a very big big space!
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Yes 🙂
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Yes, a perfect snack! In Maine, we eat tomato sandwiches. Nothing could be easier. Sliced tomatoes and mayonnaise on toasted bread. Yum! As always, thanks for the mention.
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Maine tomatoes much be very tasty to be eaten this way! I will try to see if our stash works out.
As always, most welcome in this space, Laurie.
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Fresh Maine tomatoes are so delicious that they can be sliced and eaten on their own with just a sprinkle of salt.
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Fresh produce eaten close to source – that must be heaven!
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I have little gems right from my backyard, which I will be featuring on Monday. Today’s lunch? A tomato sandwich. 😉
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Yum ….
Little gems are a variety of lettuce?
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No, just a fanciful way of describing my backyard tomatoes. 😉
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I guess if you had meant the lettuce, you would have written “Little Gems”
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Your vegetables look delicious. http://www.skinnytaste has lots of healthy recipes that call for Cherry Tomatoes. It’s one of my go-to recipe sites. 😀
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I am just scrolling through the cherry tomato recipes on SkinnyTaste … soooooo many, as you’ve said. I am particularly taken that many of these can be done in no time at all … I like the look of the Whipped Ricotta Toast with Roasted Tomatoes.
Have used recipes from this site before although I haven’t looked in for a while – thanks for sending me back!
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Thanks for the link. 🙂 Your vegies look beautiful. 🙂
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Thanks for enjoying my bundle with me!
You are most welcome in this space.
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Thank you. I plan to return regularly. 🙂
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Looking forward to welcoming you again!
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We’re growing those like crazy in our garden!
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I envy you your bounty from your vegetable garden! They must taste so delicious …
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It’s one of the few things we’re able to grow successfully!
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I just eat them as a snack all by themselves.
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We do eat them on their own too, but typically during mealtimes.
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Have you tried the baked feta and tomatoes pasta ? Even if you don’t have feta cheese, you can mix you tomatoes with olive oil, minced garlic, salt & pepper and roast in hot 400F oven for 20-minutes, then toss everything with pasta. Moisten with some of the pasta cooking water if it needs it. Serve with fresh herbs and cheese. Its good warm and even good the next day as a pasta salad.
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I second Sandy’s suggestion. It comes out amazing! A cherry tomato galette sounds really good too. I’m planning on making another tomato galette, but I am thinking of adding shallots to mix.
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Oooooh, shallots together with the tomatoes sounds like a good combination – would you sweat your shallots first?
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I would sweat them first.
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That sounds fabulous Sandy! I can get feta cheese – does the cheese go in the oven at the same time? Thank you so much for this deliciousness!
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Yes, the feta and tomatoes all go in at the same time. If you can, get the blocks of feta not the crumbled feta. The cheese will soften as it cooks so when you mix everything with the pasta is melts into a sauce with the tomatoes and olive oil.
In this post, I refer to the recipe with a link https://thesandychronicles.blog/2021/02/26/friendly-friday-challenge-something-different/
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ooooh, sounds so very delicious! I’ve put in an order from my usual cheese grocer for a block of feta …. it will arrive this weekend!!!
Thanks for the recipe …
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