Tomatoes 01 - Black Zebra

I went for a stroll through the tomato patch today, and look what I found! It's one of our new tomato varieties this year, called "Black Zebra". It's a heirloom variety, large cherry sized, dark red with green stripes, and the flavour? Well, we were so busy eating it (there were only two ripe ones), we almost forgot to take it's picture! Full of flavour, sweet, nice and acidic, the way a tomato is supposed to taste. Firm texture.

Tomato Taste Test #1
Since it's early in the season and our tomatoes are not quite ready, we had bought some at market -a few greenhouse tomatoes, and some field grown yellow cherries (both from local farms, of course). The standard greenhouse tomato had a nice flavour, and looked beautiful. The yellow cherry tasted better, it was very sweet, but not acidic enough. Our Black Zebra was the ugliest (it had skin blemishes characteristic of most heirloom varieties), but in terms of flavour, it was the clear winner. Ok, maybe we're biased, but what the heck. Stay tuned for more tomatoes, we've got about two dozen varieties this year! Ahhh, two and a half months of great cheese and tomato sandwiches!