I live for tomato season. I’m seriously obsessed. You know this, especially if you follow me on Instagram@saucymary. I began posting pictures of tomatoes and tomato dishes starting with the first handful of little cherry tomatoes harvested from my backyard plants.

Here is the thing about tomatoes. Yes, you can get them all year round at the store. But they are horrible out of season. Pretty much they are horrible in season at the store. The kinds of tomatoes that make it to the supermarket are grown for their portability, not for flavor. Most are picked green and gassed to make them red. They are not tomatoes. Nope. Not even close.