Things got pretty busy for me so I didn’t get around to doing anything with them until last night. They were incredibly ripe – maybe too ripe! – but that craving hadn’t gone away. What’s a guy to do?

Answer: Make a tomato salad.

What I did was pretty simple. Here are the ingredients:

• 3 TBS red wine vinegar
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 TSP sea salt
• 1 TSP fresh ground pepper
• 8 pounds of red round, red plum, and red Roma tomatoes

I was so eager to chow down on this salad that I even forgot to wash the tomatoes! That’s fine, because I think not washing them imparts a rustic, more organic flavor to the salad.

This salad was delicious and so incredibly easy to make, I urge each one of you to run out, buy all the tomatoes you can, and make this for yourself tonight!

I probably could’ve finished it all last night, but I was interrupted by the handyman who came by to look at my toilet, which has completely stopped working. And of course he wasn’t able to fix it! No matter, though: Tonight’ll be leftovers and then a nice quiet movie night at home. A perfect evening!