Tomatoes
Tomatoes: Kicking off the local tomato season with a few of these beauties that were tucked in my latest farm shipment.
Tomatoes
Tomatoes: Kicking off the local tomato season with a few of these beauties that were tucked in my latest farm shipment.

This year, because of the cool weather, the Bay Area tomato season is about three weeks late so we are just seeing the first tomatoes of the season from local farms.

I love tomatoes. Not the hard, truck-ripened Roma tomatoes at the local grocery store, no matter how glossy they look under the fluorescent lights. I worship my tomatoes bursting full of sweet flavor behind a facade that has specks of dirt from the local farm or the backyard garden. Strange looking, even better.

When confronted with such taste exquisiteness, not any tomato recipe will do. At a moment like this please do not dump them into a pot and make tomato sauce no matter how much you may crave a plate of pasta. It would be sacrilege.

Instead, do try my “Live simply” tomato and feta salad recipe.

“Live simply” tomato and feta salad
“Live simply” tomato and feta salad

I just sliced up some tomatoes from this week’s shipment from Live Earth Farm (let’s just say I had major tomato cravings after a visit to a local tomato farm…more on this later) and made this recipe.

I am reminded once again of the sheer perfection of simple.

Loni Stark
Loni Stark is an artist at Atelier Stark, self-professed foodie, and adventure travel seeker who has a lifelong passion for technology’s impact on business and creativity. She collaborates with Clinton Stark on video projects for Atelier Stark Films. It’s been said her laugh can be heard from San Jose all the way up to the Golden Gate Bridge. She makes no claims to super powers, although sushi is definitely her Kryptonite.