When Life Gives You Tomatoes

When Life Gives You Tomatoes
In this summer salad, the emphasis is on the vegetables rather than a carb-laden bowl of pasta interspersed with a few green leaves. Lynda Balslev for Tastefood
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Too many tomatoes are never a problem. Perhaps the only challenge is maintaining self-control when passing the colorful piles of peak-season tomatoes at the market. Admittedly, they are hard to resist. Cherries, heirlooms, and Early Girls in vibrant shades of the sun and summer challenge restraint.

It’s easy to be greedy and fill the basket with an array of these beauties without a plan for how to use them. While I’m not here to judge or to advise you on any indulgence issues, I do have a recipe to help you use your surplus.

Lynda Balslev
Lynda Balslev
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Lynda Balslev is a cookbook author, food and travel writer, and recipe developer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she lives with her Danish husband, two children, a cat, and a dog. Balslev studied cooking at Le Cordon Bleu Ecole de Cuisine in Paris and worked as a personal chef, culinary instructor, and food writer in Switzerland and Denmark. Copyright 2025 Lynda Balslev. Distributed by Andrews McMeel Syndication.
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