Tomato Heaven

The greenhouse is loaded with tomatos. When you enter the heavy sweet scent assails you, enticing you into a leafy grotto where the fruit hangs like rubies.

We cant eat them fast enough. Salads loaded with them, roasted in stews, raw on their own with a sprinkling of salt and crammed into fresh crusty bread with cheese. Yet they are still winning, for every one we eat, another four seem to ripen and take its place.

One of my favourite quick snacks/salad is:

• 2 or 3 tomatoes, roughly chopped
• 1 avocado, roughly chopped
• half a cucumber, sliced
• blue cheese, crumbled into chunks
• salt and pepper to taste with the juice of half a lemon or lime squeezed over it

Its simple, fresh and tasty.