My Favorite Time of the Year

     Yesterday I finally had enough tomatoes to make my first French Tomato Tart (recipe HERE) of the summer. Shown above ready for the oven, I could eat this tart everyday through the end of tomato season.  Really, I could.  This is the earliest I ever remember my  heirloom tomatoes ripening.  Some past years I have waited until August for my first Purple Cherokee.  The plants are loaded and the tomatoes are BIG!
     All week I've been baking cakes to take to Iowa this weekend for my father-in-law's 90th birthday.  The cakes will be assembled Sunday, the day of the party.  If they're as good as I'm expecting them to be, I'll let you know and share the recipe ;-)
     And just in case you're anxious to see a recent photo of Bisous...