A Tomato Luncheon

The "Tomato Girls" trialed the tomatoes

Now what to do with the ones that weren't tasted?

Have a luncheon, of course!

Every dish is made with a different "color" of tomato

Every dish is made with a different "variety" of tomato

It was fun!

The centerpiece

Tomatoes, of course!

These are Christas

A simple place setting for a simple luncheon

New placemats -- woven with green and beige

On sale for $2 each . . . 

The napkins, however, are from Pottery Barn

and they are not $2 each

But I think they compliment my new mats!

I always love to get a bargain!

But sometimes it ends up costing you more!

Spode Blue Room Plates

Jim's grandmother's cutlery

And my water glasses

French that we've had for eons

That are really parfait glasses

Commercial parfait glasses

Which is why they have held up so well!

And for lunch?

RED TOMATO AND BASIL CREAM SOUP

The red tomatoes are Red Mountain

This soup is served chilled and it was tomatoey creamy goodness!

ORANGE TOMATO PIE

The orange tomatoes are Chef's Choice Orange

(an indeterminate variety)

A favorite recipe from Susan Mason

Made mostly with regular red tomatoes

But we felt that they were tasty with these.

GREEN TOMATO CAKE

Made not with a green color tomato but an unripe tomato

ones that are still "green"

These are Christas

If you can make cake with carrots you can make them with green tomatoes

And, heck, if you put cream cheese frosting on, it's always good!

I garnished them with green pear tomatoes from my garden, cut in half

So you would know that it was a green tomato cake and not a carrot cake!

We had fun with our tomato luncheon

I also served a lettuce salad with a roasted red tomato vinaigrette

which was exceedingly good and really tomato flavored.

I used Mt. Majesty tomatoes for that -- it was another red tomato.

It's Thursday and I'm joining Susan at Between Naps On the Porch for Tablescape Thursday and Michael at Rattlebridge Farm for Foodie Friday